(A). Quantification of edemous phenotype (left panel) and loss of circulating high molecular weight proteins by measuring max. eye fluorescence in the retinal vessel plexus of Tg(l-fabp:DBP:EGFP) zebrafish (right panels) at 120 hours post fertilization (hpf). Zebrafish were injected with a npnt specific morpholino (npnt-MO (100 μM)), a scrambled control morpholino (CTRL-MO (100 μM)), a miR-378a-3p mimic (25 μM) or a miR-CTRL (25 μM) at 1 hpf compared to uninjected wildtype animals (WT). Scale bar = 500 μm.
(B). Quantification of edemous phenotype (left panel) and loss of circulating high molecular weight proteins by measuring max. eye fluorescence in the retinal vessel plexus of Tg(l-fabp:DBP:EGFP) zebrafish (right panels) at 96 hpf and 120 hours post fertilization (hpf). Zebrafish larvae were injected with a miR-378a-3p mimic (25 μM) or a miR-CTRL (25 μM) in the cardinal vein (c.v.) at 48 hpf compared to WT condition. The edemous phenotype of the larvae was categorized in 4 groups: P1 = no edema, P2 = mild edema, P3 = severe edema, P4 = very severe edema. Fluorescent images of the retinal vessel plexus of Tg(l-fabp:DBP:EGFP) zebrafish larvae at 96 hpf injected with morpholinos or miRNAs as indicated. Graph represents maximum fluorescence intensity detected in the fish eye. *** p<0.001, n.s. not significant. Scale bar = 500 μm.
(C). Zebrafish water after injection of a red fluorescent 70 kDa dextran in npnt-MO (100 μM) or miR-378a-3p mimic (25 μM) treated zebrafish larvae was analysed by protein on chip electrophoresis. The first peaks represents 5 kDa marker peak, second peak represents detected 70 kD dextran. Each sample consisted of pooled medium from 10 fish kept in 200 μl embryo raising medium for 48 h.