Fish also suffer from arthritis like humans?

According to statistics from the Arthritis Foundation, there are more than 50 million Americans with arthritis, which is one of the main causes of disability for people in this country. But do you know that fish families also suffer from arthritis like us?

Researchers from the University of Southern California, USA have just announced that not only humans, fish are also very prone to arthritis. This is in stark contrast to our previous thoughts on fish.

The cause of this condition is that synovial and lubricating joints in the fish bones are not fully evolved like some other vertebrate species that live on the ground.

And to clarify the problem, the team collected zebrafish specimens called Danio rerio , which is one of the members of the finfish family, which has evolved long time ago. . It was chosen because of its long genetic structure and many similarities with genetic evolution in humans.

This fish is used in research at Oregon State University.(Image source: Oregon State University).

By CT method, the results showed that the jaw joint and fins joints of Danio rerio fish also had synovial joints like the joints in the human body. However, this synovial synaptic system lacks lubricants (similar to human joint protein translation), so the joint lacks lubrication, and long-term activity causes severe joint inflammation. This arthritis is considered to be similar to human arthritis.

The Danio rerio fish is currently being studied for a new technology for regenerating inflammatory and anti-inflammatory joints . And if the research is successful on this fish, it must be a precursor to the diagnosis and treatment of human arthritis, Gage Crump, Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Renewable Medicine at Medical school Keck said in a statement.