Regeneration of ultraviolet-sensitive cones in the retinal cone mosaic of thyroxin-challenged post-juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
Department of Biology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3020 Stn. CSC, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 3N5
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: chawrysh{at}uvic.ca)
Accepted 29 April 2003
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Summary |
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Key words: retina, teleost, salmonid, fish, ultraviolet-sensitive cones, ontogeny, topographic mapping, principal component analysis, neuroregeneration
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Introduction |
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The loss of corner single cones from the square cone mosaic occurs during
smoltification (Lyall, 1957b;
Bowmaker and Kunz, 1987
;
Hawryshyn et al., 1989
;
Kunz, 1987
;
Novales-Flamarique and Hawryshyn,
1996
). Corner single cones have been identified as the
ultraviolet-sensitive (UVS) cone through a combination of spectral sensitivity
experiments (loss of UV sensitivity), histology (decrease in number of corner
single cones; Beaudet et al.,
1993
; Bowmaker and Kunz,
1987
; Loew and Wahl,
1991
) and in situ hybridization against opsin mRNAs
(Allison et al., 2003
).
Ultrastructural evidence has shown that the UVS cones disappear as a result of
apoptosis (Kunz et al., 1994
).
Browman and Hawryshyn (1992
,
1994
) mimicked smoltification
by treating parr rainbow trout with T4 and described a similar loss of both UV
sensitivity and UVS cones, which was thought to be a uniform loss across the
retina. However, a recent study
(Deutschlander et al., 2001
),
using functional mapping techniques, demonstrated that a T4 challenge on parr
resulted in ventral loss of UV sensitivity but had no effect on the dorsal UV
sensitivity.
Sexually mature Pacific salmon return to their natal streams to spawn and
eventually die. Analysis of sexually mature salmon retinas revealed the
presence of cones in the position of UVS cones
(Beaudet et al., 1997). A
recent study (Novales-Flamarique,
2000
) has shown that sexually mature sockeye salmon
(Oncorhynchus nerka) have UV sensitivity and the retina exhibits a
similar UVS cone distribution to that of a parr. Together, these studies
suggest that a natural pattern of neural plasticity exists in the salmonid
retina and that UV sensitivity and UVS cones regenerate at or near the time of
sexual maturity. Challenging rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
smolts with T4 has been shown to result in a return of UV sensitivity
(Browman and Hawryshyn, 1994
).
UVS cones also reappeared during this treatment, although spatial distribution
of the UVS cones was not analysed. Because UVS cones have subsequently been
shown to be present in some locations of smolt retinas (initial analysis in
this paper, see Fig. 1;
Allison et al., 2003
), the
histology may have been confounded by sampling location. Thus, it is important
to re-examine this regenerative event employing a topographic analysis. The
connection between the timing of natural reappearance of UVS cones and the
elevation in T4 in sexually mature salmonids has not been examined but it is
proposed that increased serum T4 leads to the regeneration of UVS cones
(Beaudet et al., 1997
).
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The first objective of the current study was to compare T4-challenged and control rainbow trout smolt retinas to determine UVS cone distribution and to quantify T4-induced UVS cone regeneration. The second objective consisted of two parts: the first was to determine whether significant growth of the control retina occurred in a short time span of six weeks, and the second compared T4-challenged fish with the controls to determine whether the normal retinal growth was altered with T4 challenge and, in particular, whether these fish exhibited regionally specific UVS cone regeneration.
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Materials and methods |
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Experimental design
All treatments were performed between December 1999 and February 2000. Fish
were placed in 80-litre tanks in groups of 6-8, where they remained for the
duration of the experiment. Fish were allowed to accommodate to their new
surroundings for two days on aerated flow-through water. Fish were fed twice a
week to satiation in order to minimize mass gain.
Experimental fish (12 in total) were exposed to an exogenous bath of
L-thyroxin (T4; Sigma T2501) with a final concentration of 300
µl-1 T4 dissolved in 0.1 mol l-1 NaOH. Half the
volume of the water was changed daily and fresh T4 was added to maintain
concentration. The method of T4 delivery has been previously used in salmonids
to elevate the serum levels of thyroid hormone
(Eales, 1965;
Browman and Hawryshyn, 1992
).
Control fish (12 in total) were treated identically except that only 0.1 mol
l-1 NaOH was added to the water. An additional six fish were
sacrificed at the initiation of the study to establish starting conditions.
Control and experimental fish were sacrificed at week 3 (T4-treated,
N=6; control, N=6) and at week 6 (T4-treated, N=6;
control, N=6).
Dissections and fixation
All dissections were performed between 12.00 h and 15.00 h. Light-adapted
fish were euthanized by deeply anaesthetising them in tricaine
methanesulphonate (0.3 mg ml-1; Cresent Chemicals, Phoenix, AZ,
USA) for at least 10 min. The eyeballs were marked for orientation by cutting
the cornea at the dorsal edge prior to removal from the socket. When possible,
the right eye of each fish was used for all analyses. Retinas were dissected
in 0.1 mol l-1 phosphate buffer (PBS), pH 7.4. Retinas were fixed
overnight in 4% formaldehyde, secondarily fixed in 1% glutaraldehyde in PBS
for a minimum of two hours at room temperature, with a final fixation in 4%
osmium tetroxide in PBS overnight at 4°C (except the week 0 control group,
which were not fixed in osmium tetroxide).
Retinas were flattened and secured to Sylgard in a petri dish. An overhead
projector was used to allow clear notation of sampling location on an expanded
view of the retina projected onto a wall. Retinal pieces were embedded in EPON
according to Luft (1961). To
facilitate the dehydration of many pieces of retina (80 pieces, two retinas at
a time), a strainer for the retinal pieces was constructed from a 96-well
culture dish [bottom surface removed and 100 µm Nitran mesh (Argent Labs,
Redmond, WA, USA) attached]. Thick sections (1 µm tangential sections) were
cut using glass knives and treated with Richardson's stain.
The retinas from each group were sampled at five standard sites (central ventral, ventral, temporal, dorsal and nasal) per retina for histological examination, counts and measurements. One retina from each group had at least 15 other sites chosen to generate a retinal map of UVS cone and mosaic type distributions (Fig. 1).
Photomicrographs were taken using a 10-bit digital black- and-white camera (Q-Imaging, Burnaby, BC, Canada) through a 100x oil immersion lens on a Zeiss Axioskop-2 microscope. Digital photomicrographs were captured using Q-Capture V1.01 software (Q-imaging). Image quality was adjusted using Adobe Photoshop 4.0.1. To standardize measurements within and between fish retinal samples, images were taken at a focal plane where the blue (short-wavelength)-sensitive (SWS) cone outer segments were equal. At this focal plane, all cone types were clearly identifiable. This procedure was used for all retinas and sections examined.
Five regions of the retina were examined (as listed above) and six measurements were made in each region for a total of 30 variables per fish. The six measurements were: (1) UVS cone density; (2) SWS cone density; (3) double cone density; (4) double cone diameter; (5) distance between double cones and (6) distance between SWS cones.
Measurements consisted of cone densities within square blocks of double cones (multiples of 11 by 11 double cones), double cone diameter perpendicular to the partitioning membrane, and cone spacing, the distance between neighbouring cones of the same type. OptimasTM computer software (Mediacybernetics, Carlsbad, CA, USA) was used for the physical measurements. The mean of double cone diameter and spacing between cones was used in the analysis because there were many samples from each animal pooled into one large sample, whereas with cone density only one measurement per animal was obtained.
Statistical analysis
The 30 variables are likely to be highly inter-correlated. Within any
region, increases in the density of one type of cone will have to come at the
expense of the density of other cones or their size. Increasing the density of
cones will reduce the distance between them. In addition, developmental cues
almost certainly affect more than one region of the retina at a time.
Analyzing each of these variables separately can easily lead to false
rejections of the null hypothesis of no treatment effect because of the
repeated tests.
An alternative to analyzing each measurement separately is to extract
principal components of the correlation matrix
(Quinn and Keough, 2002) and
analyze the principal components. Principal components are interpreted by the
contribution of individual variables to the component scores. Sequential
components are, by definition, uncorrelated with each other. This method thus
summarises many variables into fewer uncorrelated variables while retaining
most of the variance in the original data. Because many of the variables are
alternative measurements of the same underlying process (e.g. density of
double cones and distance between double cones), the principal components can
be more accurate than the original measurement.
Six individuals were missing up to six measurements because one region of
the retina was damaged during preparation. Principal components can only be
calculated for complete measurement sets so we imputed the missing data with
the mean for all other measurements of that variable regardless of their
treatment or time of measurement (Quinn
and Keough, 2002). This is conservative because it increases the
variance within treatments without increasing the variance among treatments,
thereby not biasing the principal component scores towards rejection of the
null hypothesis. It also allowed us to make full use of all the animals in the
experiment.
We analyzed the first two principal components using general linear models with Type III sums of squares. We excluded the week 0 controls in the analysis, which collapsed into a simple two-way analysis of variance with equal sample sizes.
In situ hybridization
In situ hybridization of opsin probes onto trout retina was
carried out using standard protocols, as described previously
(Allison et al., 2003).
Briefly, retina was cryosectioned (10 µm thickness), treated with
proteinase, acetylated and hybridized with dioxigenin labelled antisense
riboprobe corresponding to the rainbow trout SWS1 (UVS cones; 596 bp in
length; GenBank accession number AF425074) or SWS2 (SWS cones; 734 bp in
length; AF425075) opsin genes. Riboprobe was detected using anti-dioxigenin
antibody conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (Roche Biochemicals, Basel,
Switzerland), and a dark precipitate was produced using BCIP/NBT
[5'-5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-phosphate 4-toluidine salt (Gibco-BRL,
Gaithersburg, MD, USA)], plus nitroblue tetrazolium (Gibco-BRL), with
levamisole (Sigma, St Louis, MO, USA). Whole-mount in situ
hybridization was carried out in a similar manner on pieces of neural retina
dissected from dark-adapted trout, however no acetylation was required. For
whole-mount retina, the development of signal utilized the alkaline
phosphatase substrate FastRed (Roche Biochemicals) to produce a fluorescent
signal. This signal was detected using epifluorescence and the above
microscope with a standard rhodamine filter set.
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Results |
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In situ hybridization for the UVS and SWS opsin mRNA, performed on
tangential cryosections, was used to conclusively demonstrate cone identities
(Fig. 3). As defined in our
histological examination of plastic-embedded sections (e.g.
Fig. 2A), the partitioning
membranes of double cones pointed to the central single cones, which clearly
express the SWS opsin mRNA as indicated by the dark precipitate
(Fig. 3A). However, corner
single cones expressed only UVS mRNA (Fig.
3B). Because the mRNA for the UVS opsin is vitread relative to the
other cone opsins in teleosts (Allison et
al., 2003; Hisatomi et al.,
1996
,
1997
;
Raymond et al., 1993
), it was
not possible to acquire a large area of tangential section where the UVS opsin
mRNA and the double cone partitioning membrane can both be visualized. Thus,
we also completed in situ hybridization labelling of UVS mRNA in
whole-mount retina, indicated by the fluorescent label, which clearly
validated the conclusion that the corner single cone is the UVS cone
(Fig. 3C). We have previously
established the specificity of these labelling protocols through double
labelling experiments that show that the UVS and SWS opsin localize to
separate single cone photoreceptors and that the SWS opsin mRNA co-localizes
within cells labelled by our antibody against goldfish SWS opsin (see
Allison et al., 2003
for
details on in situ hybridization methodology and analysis). Finally,
we have used these labels to demonstrate that a dramatic decrease in cells
expressing UVS opsin mRNA, but no decrease in cells expressing SWS opsin mRNA,
was associated with a decrease in sensitivity to UV light measured with
electroretinograms (Allison et al.,
2003
). Photoreceptor labelling as a methodology to obtain
morphometric data can be an effective strategy, although labelling techniques
require tissue processing that obscures much of the histological detail.
Because the current study was directed at questions regarding the exact
spacing and morphology of cone types and we are now able to conclude that the
corner single cone is the UVS cone, plastic sections were the most appropriate
methodology.
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Anomalies in the cone mosaic
The cone mosaic was not consistent between all sample sites. In some
examples, mosaics exhibited extensive branching. This extensive branching was
usually associated with the optic nerve head. Many cases of branching were
associated with the presence of a large single cone
(Fig. 2E) that was present in
all areas of the retina but seems to be in higher numbers in the temporal
retina. In many cases, the large single cone replaced a double cone in the
mosaic. Sometimes, however, these large single cones were not in the position
of a double cone and these situations usually exhibited branching in the
mosaic. Triple cones sometimes appeared in the position of double cones in the
mosaic and also caused a slight disturbance, similar to the large single
cones, in the mosaic.
Principal component analysis and the effects of thyroxin
exposure
The first principal component (PC1) accounted for 48.3% of the variance in
the full set of measurements. PC2 accounted for an additional 10.0% and PC3 an
additional 7.7%. These three derived variables accounted for almost two-thirds
of the total variation in the initial data set of 30 variables. For the
purposes of this paper, we will describe the results for PC1 and PC2.
The density of SWS and double cones in all regions of the retina loaded strongly on PC1, as did the densities of UVS cones in the temporal and dorsal regions. The densities of UVS cones in other regions loaded weakly on PC1. The diameter and spacing of all cone types in all regions of the retina loaded strongly and negatively on PC1 (Table 1). Thus, high positive values of PC1 in subsequent discussion (e.g. Fig. 4) reflect densely packed SWS and double cones, and high negative values of PC1 reflect small cone diameters and small intercone distances.
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High values of PC2 represent individuals that, for a given value of PC1, had high densities of SWS and double cones in the central ventral, temporal and ventral regions and low densities in the nasal region of the retina. The density of UVS cones loaded strongly and positively onto PC2 in the nasal and ventral regions but negatively in the temporal region. At the same time, the diameter of the double cones loaded strongly in the dorsal and nasal regions, and the distance between double and between SWS cones loaded strongly in the nasal region but weakly in the temporal regions (Table 1). Thus, for any given value of PC1, high positive values of PC2 in subsequent discussion (e.g. Fig. 5) reflect, amongst other changes, higher densities of UVS cones in the nasal and ventral regions of the retina.
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Fish treated with T4 had much higher PC2 scores than control fish both three and six weeks into the experiment. For a given value of PC1, T4-treated fish had a higher UVS cone density in the nasal and ventral sampling regions and lower UVS cone densities in the temporal retina; there were higher densities of SWS and double cones in the central ventral, temporal and ventral regions but lower densities in the nasal sampling regions relative to the controls (Fig. 5; Table 2).
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Discussion |
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Topographical distribution of UVS cones
The identity of cone types is central to the interpretation of our
histological data. Several lines of evidence allowed us to conclude that the
single corner cone is the UVS cone, while the central single cone is the SWS
cone. Firstly, our previous microspectrophotometry analysis indicated that
single cones, and only single cones, contain UVS and SWS opsin
(Hawryshyn and Harosi, 1994;
Hawryshyn et al., 2001
).
Single cones containing UVS opsin (as determined by microspectrophotometry)
are shorter than cones containing SWS opsin, consistent with the observation
that the corner single cone is shorter (in radial section of the retina) than
the central single cone (Lyall,
1957a
). Secondly, a loss of the single corner cone coincident with
a loss of visual sensitivity to UV light has been demonstrated in several
scenarios (Bowmaker and Kunz,
1987
; Beaudet et al.,
1993
; Browman and Hawryshyn,
1992
,
1994
). Finally, in
situ hybridization for the UVS and SWS opsin mRNA, performed on
tangential cryosections, conclusively demonstrated cone identities
(Fig. 3).
Fig. 1 shows representative maps of the retina from each group. Row mosaic was primarily found in the ventral-nasal area but sometimes extended into the periphery of the temporal retina. Examples of square mosaic were found in all regions, and mosaics showing both square and row mosaics were primarily found in the dorsal-temporal region. Complete mosaics were only found in the dorsal-temporal region, as indicated by the polygons on the retinal maps.
The distribution of UVS cones in an individual from each group was mapped
and the presence of UVS cones is noted by the polygons in
Fig. 1. The UVS cones were
found to be present in the dorsotemporal quadrant of the retina, very similar
to our recent topographical mapping of UVS cones in smolts using in
situ hybridization (Allison et al.,
2003). It is reasonable to assume that the single corner cones in
T4-treated smolts express UVS opsin, as we have clearly demonstrated in
untreated fish (Fig. 3),
because T4 treatment is known to increase the fish's sensitivity to UV light
(Browman and Hawryshyn,
1994
).
T4 induction of neuroplasticity in the UVS cone photoreceptor
population
Thyroxin has been linked to several changes in migratory fishes
(Barron, 1986;
Youngson, 1989
;
Youngson and Webb, 1993
)
and/or in metamorphic transitions exhibited by fishes
(Evans and Fernald, 1990
;
Inui and Miwa, 1985
;
Miwa and Inui, 1987
;
Tasaki et al., 1986
). In the
retina, thyroxin has been shown to alter retinal structure and function
(Alexander et al., 1998
;
Browman and Hawryshyn, 1992
,
1994
;
Deutschlander et al., 2001
;
Marsh-Armstrong et al., 1999
)
in addition to a suite of other changes. It has been demonstrated that thyroid
hormone receptor-ß controls asymmetric development of cone identity in
mouse retina; knockout of this receptor led to a loss of dorsoventral
asymmetry of UVS cones (Ng et al.,
2001
). Recently, asymmetric growth of the Xenopus retina
has been shown to be under control of thyroxin and deiodinase enzymes
(Marsh-Armstrong et al.,
1999
). Dorsal proliferative cells expressed a deiodinase enzyme
that deactivates thyroid hormones, preventing cell proliferation. Ventral
retinal cells did not express this enzyme, allowing for cell proliferation and
leading to asymmetric growth. Whether this asymmetric enzyme expression occurs
in the teleost retina is unknown. A recent study has shown the presence of
both T4 outer ring deiodinase, which converts T4 to active T3
(3,5,3'-triiodothyronine), and T4 inner ring deiodinase, which converts
T4 to inactive reverse T3, in the rainbow trout retina. During a T4 challenge,
the T4 inner ring deiodinase activity is significantly increased, lowering T4
level and most likely inhibiting an increase in active T3 level. This may
result in the differential growth between the control and T4 groups
(Plate et al., 2002
).
Deiodinases and thyroxin have also been shown to play an important role in
regulating the retinal distribution of A1- and A2-based
visual pigments (Alexander et al.,
1998
; Allen, 1977
;
Cristy, 1974
), where
A1 and A2 visual pigments are segregated into the dorsal
and ventral regions of the retina
(Wheeler, 1978
). Thus,
thyroxin, thyroxin receptors, and genes responsible for producing deiodinase
appear to work in concert to alter gene expression for a suite of structural
and functional entities with distinct intra-hemispheric differences.
In the current study, the remodelling of the smolt cone mosaic in response
to T4 treatment is marked by localized proliferation or neuroregeneration of
UVS cones in the ventral and nasal retinal areas. This observation
corroborates and extends previous studies that found T4 treatment of parr
rainbow trout leads to the loss of UV sensitivity in the ventral retinal
hemisphere (Browman and Hawryshyn,
1994; Deutschlander et al.,
2001
) and T4 treatment of fish in the later stages of development
results in a return of UV sensitivity in the ventral retina
(Browman and Hawryshyn, 1994
).
It should be emphasised that the current study is the first attempt to examine
the retinal locus for UVS cone regeneration.
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