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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic compound commonly used in manufacture of various consumer products. Earlier studies from our group have demonstrated that neonatal exposure of male rats to BPA causes decrease in sperm count and motility, increase in post implantation loss, ultimately leading to subfertility during adulthood. One of the factors contributing for post implantation loss is altered m ...
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; blood; epigenetics; epigenome; high performance liquid chromatography; maternal exposure; nervous system; polymerase chain reaction; progeny; regression analysis; research; signal transduction; urine
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... In utero exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) in early stages of development has been reported to exert adverse health effects on offspring later in life. Epigenetic alterations, particularly DNA methylation, may be one plausible biological mechanism involved. We examined the association between maternal BPA exposure and DNA methylation in cord blood. We randomly selected 96 paired samples of maternal ur ...
Vicente Mustieles; Andrea Rodríguez-Carrillo; Fernando Vela-Soria; Shereen Cynthia D'Cruz; Arthur David; Fatima Smagulova; Antonio Mundo-López; Alicia Olivas-Martínez; Iris Reina-Pérez; Nicolás Olea; Carmen Freire; Juan P. Arrebola; Mariana F. Fernández
... Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure has been linked to altered behavior in children. Within the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU), an adverse outcome pathway (AOP) network was constructed supporting the mechanistic link between BPA exposure and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).To test this toxicologically-based hypothesis in the prospective INMA-Granada birth cohort (Spain).BPA conce ...
... Overexpression of estrogen receptor β (ERβ) in endometrium contributes to endometriosis (EM) pathogenesis. Trimethylation of the H3 lysine (K) 4 (H3K4me3) in promoters is strongly correlated with gene expression. This study aimed to explore the effects of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure on EM development from the perspective of the regulation of ERβ expression in eutopic endometrium via the H3K4me3-rel ...
... As a well-known estrogenic endocrine disruptor, bisphenol A (BPA) is of utmost concern since it is reported with harmful effects on animal reproduction. However, the adverse effects on progeny after parental BPA exposure are largely unknown in fishes. To investigate the epigenetic effects of BPA on progeny gonadal development, parental rare minnow (Gobiocypris rarus) were exposed to BPA (15 μg L⁻¹ ...
... Implication of environmental endocrine disruptors, such as bisphenol A (BPA), on the development of cardiopathy has been poorly investigated. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of long-term exposure to BPA at the reference dose on the myocardium of rats, and the underlying mechanisms.Male rats received corn oil or 50μg/kg/day of BPA since delactation. At 24 and 48 weeks (wk), card ...
Zoe L. Koestel; Robert C. Backus; Kaoru Tsuruta; William G. Spollen; Sarah A. Johnson; Angela B. Javurek; Mark R. Ellersieck; Charles E. Wiedmeyer; Kurunthachalam Kannan; Jingchuan Xue; Nathan J. Bivens; Scott A. Givan; Cheryl S. Rosenfeld
DNA methylation; bicarbonates; bioaccumulation; bisphenol A; blood chemistry; blood serum; correlation; cortisol; diet; dietary exposure; dogs; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; feces; hematology; human health; intestinal microorganisms; lymphocytes; microbiome; pet foods; wildlife
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely present endocrine disruptor chemical found in many household items. Moreover, this chemical can bioaccumulate in various terrestrial and aquatic sources; thereby ensuring continual exposure of animals and humans. For most species, including humans, diet is considered the primary route of exposure. However, there has been little investigation whether commercial-brands ...
... The plastic monomer and plasticizer bisphenol A (BPA), and the UV-filter benzophenone-3 (BP3) have been shown to have estrogenic activities that could alter mammary gland development. Our aim was to analyze whether BPA or BP3 direct exposure affects the functional differentiation of the mammary gland using an in vitro model. Mammary organoids were obtained and isolated from 8 week-old virgin femal ...
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; body weight; corn oil; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; estrogens; histology; male fertility; males; mitogen-activated protein kinase; pollution; spermatogenesis; spermatozoa; testes
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... Testicular junctions are pivotal to male fertility and regulated by constituent proteins. Increasing evidence suggests that environmental chemicals, including bisphenol A (BPA), may impact these proteins, but whether the impacts persist for generations is not yet known. Here, we investigate the effect of BPA (a ubiquitous endocrine-disrupting chemical) on testis and sperm functions and whether the ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), a representative endocrine disrupting compound, exists ubiquitously in the aquatic environment. Several studies on fish have validated the role of BPA in the lipid metabolism. However, the action mechanisms of BPA on lipid metabolism have been little studied. To clarify how BPA regulates lipid metabolism, Gobiocypris rarus were exposed to 15 μg/L BPA for 3 and 6 weeks. Results s ...
DNA methylation; Gobiocypris rarus; adults; apolipoprotein A-I; aquatic environment; bisphenol A; cholesterol; cholesterol metabolism; high density lipoprotein; lipid metabolism disorders; males; minnows; plasticizers; promoter regions
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is a well-known plasticizer, which is widely distributed in the aquatic environment. Lots of studies showed that BPA could lead to lipid metabolism disorder in fish, but few studies studied the mechanism from the perspective of lipid transport. Apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) is the main component of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and plays important roles in reverse cholesterol trans ...
... Increasing studies have established the toxic effects of BPA on development and reproduction in animals. In present study, we investigated epigenetic effects on the transcription of several ovarian steroidogenic genes in rare minnows Gobiocypris rarus after BPA exposure at 15 μgL⁻¹ for 21, 42 and 63 d. Results showed that short term BPA exposure (21 d) caused significant increase of both estradiol ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), a major plasticizers that are commonly used for lining of beverage or food-storage containers, has been shown to increase cholesterol levels with molecular mechanism not clear. The present study was aimed to investigate the effects of BPA exposure on liver cholesterol synthesis and hepatic steatosis in male C57BL/6 mice and its underlying mechanisms. Male C57BL/6 mice were expos ...
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; body weight; females; gene expression; genes; germ cells; humans; males; messenger RNA; mice; risk
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic environmental toxin widely used for the production of plastics. Human frequent exposure to this chemical has been proposed to be a potential public health risk. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of BPA on DNA methylation of imprinting genes in fetal mouse germ cell. Pregnant mice were treated with BPA at doses of 0, 40, 80 and 160 μg BPA/kg bo ...
DNA; DNA methylation; Gobiocypris rarus; adults; apolipoprotein A-I; aquatic environment; bisphenol A; estrogens; high density lipoprotein cholesterol; lipid metabolism; males; minnows; plasticizers; spermatogenesis; spermatozoa; testes; toxicology
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is a well-known plasticizer that widely distributed in the aquatic environment. BPA has many adverse effects on reproduction. However, few studies have investigated the mechanism of BPA affecting reproduction from the perspective of lipid metabolism. Apolipoprotein A1 (ApoA1) is the major component of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and plays critical roles in reverse cholesterol ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), a well-known estrogenic endocrine disruptor, is ubiquitously present in the environment, possessing the potential to interfere with the reproductive endocrine system in male mammals. However, there are limited studies on the reproductive toxicity in male aquatic animals associated with epigenetic modifications. In order to evaluate the potential effects of BPA on reproduction an ...
... Nowadays, endocrine disrupting chemical pollution has become one of the major concerns due to the potential role of these chemicals in provoking endocrine disorders especially type 2 diabetes. As a widespread endocrine disrupting chemical, Bisphenol A, with modest estrogenic activity can exert its detrimental effects in the different organs involved in type 2 diabetes such as pancreas, liver, adip ...
DNA methylation; bioactive properties; bisphenol A; bisphenol S; breast neoplasms; disease course; epigenetics; extracellular matrix; gene expression regulation; gene ontology; genes; human cell lines; human diseases; humans; models; neoplasm cells; signal transduction; transcription (genetics); transposons
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... In recent years, concerns about using Bisphenol A (BPA) in daily consume products and its effects in many chronic human diseases have prompted the removal of BPA. However, the widely used BPA alternatives, including Bisphenol S (BPS), have a high structural similarity with BPA, suggesting that they may have similar biological effects towards human beings. Indeed, BPS was also found to have endocri ...
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; bisphenol S; body weight; breast neoplasms; carcinogenesis; cell proliferation; chromosomal instability; dose response; lipidomics; mass spectrometry; metabolism; metastasis; molecular biology; nucleic acids; proteomics
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... Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) is considered to be associated with the increased incidence of breast cancer. As a widespread replacement of BPA, the effect of bisphenol S (BPS) on breast tumor programming has not been studied. We reported that BPS exposure significantly promoted proliferation and deterioration of breast tumor by nonmonotonic dose response. The mechanisms were investigated by molecu ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widely used chemical that represents a reproductive hazard in fish. However, the molecular pathways mediating reproductive toxicity under chronic BPA exposure remain unclear. To study the reproductive hazards associated with chronic BPA exposure, adult male rare minnows (Gobiocypris rarus) were treated with 15 μg L ⁻ ¹ and 225 μg L ⁻ ¹ BPA for 90 days. Results showed that ch ...
... Exposure to the emerging contaminant bisphenol A (BPA) is ubiquitous and associated with reproductive disorders. The BPA effect as an endocrine disruptor is widely known but other mechanisms underlying developmental disease, such as epigenetic modifications, still remain unclear. The objective of this study was to investigate whether Cuscuta chinensis flavonoids (CCFs) can be used as a dietary sup ...
DNA methylation; animal behavior; autism; biomarkers; bisphenol A; blood; environmental exposure; environmental models; epigenetics; exposure models; gene expression; genes; hippocampus; human behavior; humans; long term effects; mice; neurodevelopment; patients; risk; schizophrenia; transcription (genetics)
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... Early-life adversity increases the risk for psychopathology in later life. The underlying mechanism(s) is unknown, but epigenetic variation represents a plausible candidate. Early-life exposures can disrupt epigenetic programming in the brain, with lasting consequences for gene expression and behavior. This evidence is primarily derived from animal studies, with limited study in humans due to inac ...
... In this work, a novel electrochemical protocol with signal amplification for determination of DNA methylation and methyltransferase activity using DNA-based hybridization chain reaction (HCR) was proposed. After the gold electrode was modified with dsDNA, it was treated with M.SssI MTase, HpaII endonuclease, respectively. And then the HCR was initiated by the target DNA and two hairpin helper DNAs ...
... BACKGROUND: Exposure to environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals during pregnancy reportedly causes transgenerationally inherited reproductive defects. We hypothesized that to affect the grandchild, endocrine-disrupting chemicals must alter the epigenome of the germ cells of the in utero-exposed G1 male fetus. Additionally, to affect the great-grandchild, the aberration must persist in the ger ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), an abundant endocrine disruptor, affects stress-responsiveness and related behaviors in children. In rats, perinatal BPA exposure modifies stress response in pubertal offspring via unknown mechanisms. Here we examined possible epigenetic modifications in the glucocorticoid receptor gene and its regulator Fkbp5 in hypothalamus and hippocampus of exposed offspring. We found increa ...
... Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes among offspring. Although DNA methylation is considered one of the underlying causes of these associations, few studies have focused on the association between prenatal BPA exposure and DNA methylation in the human placenta. In this study, we examined the association between prenatal BPA exposure and DNA met ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), is a common contaminant in diverse environmental compartments and its endocrine disruptive effect on living organisms has been widely reported. Further works are still required to facilitate the research on cytotoxicity and genotoxicity. In the present study, grass carp ovary (GCO) cells were used to investigate cellular oxidative stress and genomic DNA methylation under BPA exp ...
Yoon-Jung Choi; Young Ah Lee; Yun-Chul Hong; Jinwoo Cho; Kyung-Shin Lee; Choong Ho Shin; Bung-Nyun Kim; Johanna Inhyang Kim; Soo Jin Park; Hans Bisgaard; Klaus Bønnelykke; Youn-Hee Lim
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; body mass index; childhood; childhood obesity; confidence interval; creatinine; environment; epigenetics; genes; humans; insulin-like growth factor II; maternal exposure; standard deviation; statistical models
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... Epigenetic mechanisms have been suggested to play a role in the link between in utero exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and pediatric obesity; however, there is little evidence regarding this mechanism in humans. We obtained data on obesity-associated CpG sites from a previous epigenome-wide association study, and then examined whether methylation at those CpG sites was influenced by prenatal BPA expo ...
... Bisphenol-A (BPA), used in the production of polycarbonate plastics, exerts complex effects on the development of organisms and on their epigenomes as a methylation disruptor. BPA is of concern due to its ubiquity in the environment. In contrast, folic acid can promote plant growth and has been shown to correct the methyl-disrupting effects of BPA in mice. We investigated the effects of prolonged ...
... To explore the effects of maternal nutrition on offspring muscle characteristics, a total of 56 sows were assigned to one of the four dietary groups during gestation: control (CON), or control diets supplemented with methyl donor (MET), bisphenol A (BPA), and combined BPA and MET (BPA+MET). Compared with CON offspring, MET offspring showed a higher meat redness value, but lower glycogen content in ...
Luísa Camacho; Mallikarjuna S. Basavarajappa; Ching-Wei Chang; Tao Han; Tetyana Kobets; Igor Koturbash; Gordon Surratt; Sherry M. Lewis; Michelle M. Vanlandingham; James C. Fuscoe; Gonçalo Gamboa da Costa; Igor P. Pogribny; K. Barry Delclos
... Bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and epoxy resins, binds to the nuclear estrogen receptor with an affinity 4–5 orders of magnitude lower than that of estradiol. We reported previously that “high BPA” [100,000 and 300,000 µg/kg body weight (bw)/day], but not “low BPA” (2.5–2700 µg/kg bw/day), induced clear adverse effects in NCTR Sprague-Dawley rats ...
DNA; DNA methylation; DNA methyltransferase; Danio rerio; bisphenol A; bisphenol S; developmental stages; diabetes mellitus; early development; epigenetics; gene expression; genes; glucose; insulin; pollution; toxicology
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS) are implicated in the development of metabolic disorders, such diabetes mellitus. However, the epigenetic mechanism underlying the pancreatic β-cell dysregulation for both BPA/BPS needs clarification. This exploratory study was designed to investigate whether embryonic exposure to low BPA/BPS concentrations impair early pancreatic β-cell differentiation as w ...
... DNA methylation is a commonly studied epigenetic modification. The mechanism of BPA on DNA methylation is poorly understood. The present study aims to explore whether GSH synthesis affects DNA methylation in the testes of adult male rare minnow Gobiocypris rarus in response to Bisphenol A (BPA). Male G. rarus was exposed to 1, 15 and 225μgL1 BPA for 7 days. The levels of global DNA methylation, h ...
... A number of chemicals have been shown to affect epigenetic patterning and functions. Since epigenetic mechanisms regulate transcriptional networks, epigenetic changes induced by chemical exposure can represent early molecular events for long-term adverse physiological effects. Epigenetics has thus appeared as a research field of major interest within (eco)toxicological sciences. The present study ...
DNA methylation; apoptosis; bisphenol A; breast neoplasms; breasts; cell growth; chemokines; environmental science; epigenetics; gene expression; genes; humans; neoplasm cells
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... In this research, epigenetic effects of bisphenol A (BPA) on human breast cancer MCF-7 cells were analyzed. Genome-wide DNA methylation and gene expression were analyzed in MCF-7 cells exposed to BPA (10⁻⁵ and 10⁻⁶ mol/L for 5 weeks). No significant changes in the global level of 5-methyl-2′-deoxycytidine and 5-hydroxymethyl-2′-deoxycytidine were observed. DNA methylation profiling analysis indica ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in many consumer products, interferes with the endocrine system of mammals, including humans. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of BPA on spermatogenesis and semen quality. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of BPA on mouse spermatogenesis. CD1 mice were used in all experiments. Mice were treated with different doses of ...
... As a weak estrogenic chemical, bisphenol A (BPA) has been extensively studied for reproductive toxicity and the effects on the steroidogenesis. In the present study, we aim to explore the effects of BPA on epigenetic modification in rare minnow Gobiocypris rarus. We have detected the global and cyp19a1a gene specific DNA methylation in gonads of adult G. rarus under BPA exposure. The global DNA me ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA), as synthetic monomer used in the production of polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, has endocrine disruptor properties and high risk on human health. Epigenetic alterations could act an important role in BPA-induced toxicity, but its mechanism has not been fully understood. We investigated the effects of BPA on gene expression of chromatin modifying enzymes, promoter methylat ...
Young Jung Jang; Hee Ra Park; Tae Hyung Kim; Wook-Jin Yang; Jong-Joo Lee; Seon Young Choi; Shin Bi Oh; Eunjin Lee; Joo-Hong Park; Hyoung-Pyo Kim; Hyung Sik Kim; Jaewon Lee
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; cognition; epoxides; manufacturing; memory; mice; mitogen-activated protein kinase; neurogenesis; plastics; pregnancy; progeny; resins; toxicology
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is used as a monomer during the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. However, BPA adversely affects reproductive organ growth and development, and it has been proposed that the detrimental effects of BPA could extend to future generations. The present study was conducted to evaluate the transgenerational effects of BPA on hippocampal neurogenesis and neurocogni ...
... BACKGROUND: Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic endocrine disruptor commonly used in manufacture of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. Due to its ubiquitous presence in the environment, health concerns are increasing. Earlier studies from our group have shown that neonatal exposure of male rats to BPA affected spermatogenesis leading to impairment in fertility during adulthood. Further we als ...
DNA methylation; active ingredients; bioactive properties; bisphenol A; etiology; fetus; gene expression; human development; humans; kidneys; liver; pharmacokinetics; placenta; pregnancy; tissues; urine
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... While urine has been an easily accessible and feasible matrix for human biomonitoring, analytical measurements in internal tissues and organs can provide more accurate exposure assessments to understand disease etiology. This is especially important for the endocrine active compound, bisphenol A (BPA), where studies investigating internal doses at sensitive periods of human development are current ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor whose ubiquitous presence in the environment has been related with impairment of male reproduction. BPA can cause both transcriptomic and epigenetic changes during spermatogenesis. To evaluate the potential effects of male exposure to BPA, adult zebrafish males were exposed during spermatogenesis to doses of 100 and 2000 μg/L, which were reported in cont ...
... This study was conducted to explore whether exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy could change intestinal digestion and absorption function in offspring using pigs as a model, and whether methyl donor (MET) could counteract the BPA-induced impacts. Fifty Landrace × Yorkshire sows were divided into four dietary groups throughout gestation: control diet (CON); control diet supplemented with ...
DNA methylation; DNA methyltransferase; apoptosis; bisphenol A; breast neoplasms; estrogens; fetal development; flow cytometry; humans; maternal exposure; placenta
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) accumulation in the placenta leads to fetal growth restriction (FGR). Here we aimed to explore the effect and the underlying mechanism of BPA exposure on fetal development. ELISA was performed to measure estrogen levels in human placenta and BeWo cells. qRT-PCR and Western blotting were conducted to determine the expression of estrogen receptors (ERs), breast cancer resistance pr ...
... The hypothesis of fetal origins of adult disease posits that early developmental exposures involve epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, that influence adult disease susceptibility. In utero or neonatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), a high-production-volume chemical used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastic, is associated with higher body weight, increased breast and prostate ...
Fuensanta Navarro-Lafuente; Evdochia Adoamnei; Julián J. Arense-Gonzalo; María T. Prieto-Sánchez; María L. Sánchez-Ferrer; Antonio Parrado; Mariana F. Fernández; Beatriz Suarez; Antonia López-Acosta; Antonio Sánchez-Guillamón; Luis García-Marcos; Eva Morales; Jaime Mendiola; Alberto M. Torres-Cantero; the NELA Study group
DNA methylation; asthma; bisphenol A; bisphenol F; bisphenol S; blood; environment; epigenome; females; fetal development; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; humans; liquid-phase microextraction; males; nutrition; pregnancy; public health; regression analysis; risk; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) set a public health risk through disruption of normal physiological processes. The toxicoepigenetic mechanisms of developmental exposure to common EDCs, such as bisphenol A (BPA), are poorly known. The present study aimed to evaluate associations between perinatal maternal urinary concentrations of BPA, bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol F (BPF) and LINE-1 (long ...
... Screening has revealed that aquafeeds with high inclusion of plant material may contain small amounts of endocrine disrupting agricultural pesticides. In this work, bisphenol A (BPA) and genistein (GEN) were selected as model endocrine disrupting toxicants with impact on DNA methylation in fish. Atlantic salmon hepatocytes were exposed in vitro to four concentrations of BPA and GEN (0.1, 1.0, 10 a ...
DNA methylation; bisphenol A; body weight; corn oil; epigenetics; females; male fertility; males; pregnancy; proteomics; spermatogenesis; spermatozoa; testes
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... Growing evidence suggests that developmental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA)—a synthetic endocrine disruptor—causes atypical reproductive phenotypes that may persist for generations. However, the precise mechanism(s) by which BPA causes these adverse consequences is unclear. Here, pregnant female mice were orally exposed to 50 μg, 5 mg, and 50 mg BPA/kg body weight (bw)/day from 7 to 14 days of gest ...
DNA hypomethylation; United States Environmental Protection Agency; adipocytes; adipose tissue; animal models; bisphenol A; blood serum; body weight; free fatty acids; glucose; glycerol; lipolysis; males; subcutaneous injection; toxicology; triacylglycerol lipase
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... Accumulating evidence suggests the role of developmental exposure of bisphenol A (BPA) in metabolic disorders. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Using a rat model, we investigated the neonatal exposure of BPA on lipid metabolism in adult and the underlying mechanisms. From postnatal day1(PND1) to PND10, male rats were exposed to BPA via daily subcutaneous injection with 10 µg/100 ...
... Environmental pollution is increasingly considered an important factor involved in the obesity incidence. Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are important actors in the concept of DOHaD (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease), where epigenetic mechanisms play crucial roles. Bisphenol A (BPA), a monomer used in the manufacture of plastics and resins is one of the most studied obesogenic endocrine dis ...
... The epigenetic changes induced by environmental contaminants play important roles in the inheritance of male reproductive dysfunction. The present study investigated DNA methylation changes and some oxidative stress biomarkers induced by bisphenol A (BPA) in male offspring. A total number of 48 female albino rats were administered orally with 50 μg/kg of BPA/day during gestation and/or lactation p ...
... With the aim to analyze whether bisphenol A (BPA) modifies β-Casein (β-Cas) synthesis and transcriptional regulation in perinatally exposed animals, here, pregnant F0 rats were orally exposed to 0, 0.6 or 52 μg BPA/kg/day from gestation day 9 until weaning. Then, F1 females were bred and mammary glands were obtained on lactation day 2. Perinatal BPA exposure decreased β-Cas expression without modi ...
... “Epigenetic transgenerational inheritance” (ETI) has been defined as germline (sperm or egg) transmission of epigenetic information between generations in the absence of direct exposures or genetic manipulations. Among reported cases of ETI in mammals, the majority are induced by environmental factors, including environmental toxicants [e.g. agricultural fungicide vinclozolin, plastic additive bis ...
Sarah Zulkifli; Noor Shafina Mohd Nor; Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir; Norashikin Mohd Ranai; Noor Kaslina Mohd Kornain; Wan Nor I’zzah Wan Mohd Zain; Mardiana Abdul Aziz
DNA methylation; adulthood; bisphenol A; food intake; histology; ileum; males; obesity; pregnancy; progeny; trans fatty acids; waist circumference
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... In this study, we aimed to determine whether a postnatal trans fat diet (TFD) could aggravate prenatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure effects on offspring’s small intestine and adulthood obesity, due to the relatively sparse findings on how the interaction between these two variables interrupt the small intestinal cells. Twelve pregnant rats were administered with either unspiked drinking water (contr ...
... This study was performed to examine whether prenatal exposure to bisphenol (BP) A analogues, BPE and BPS, negatively impacts male reproductive functions and testis development using mice as a model. CD-1 mice were orally exposed to control treatment (corn oil), BPA, BPE, and BPS (0.5, 20, or 50 µg/kg/day) from gestational day 11 (the presence of vaginal plug = 1) to birth. Although sperm counts we ...
Gillian England-Mason; Sarah M. Merrill; Nicole Gladish; Sarah R. Moore; Gerald F. Giesbrecht; Nicole Letourneau; Julia L. MacIsaac; Amy M. MacDonald; David W. Kinniburgh; Anne-Louise Ponsonby; Richard Saffery; Jonathan W. Martin; Michael S. Kobor; Deborah Dewey; the APrON Study Team
DNA damage; DNA methylation; biomarkers; bisphenol A; blood; environment; epithelium; genes; maternal exposure; metabolites; molecular weight; neurodevelopment; nutrition; phthalates; placenta; umbilical cord; urine; Alberta
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... Prenatal exposure to phthalates has been associated with adverse health and neurodevelopmental outcomes. DNA methylation (DNAm) alterations may be a mechanism underlying these effects, but prior investigations of prenatal exposure to phthalates and neonatal DNAm profiles are limited to placental tissue and umbilical cord blood. Conduct an epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) of the associations ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA) is an estrogenic endocrine disruptor widely used in the production of plastics. Increasing evidence indicates that in utero BPA exposure affects sexual differentiation and behavior; however, the mechanisms underlying these effects are unknown. We hypothesized that BPA may disrupt epigenetic programming of gene expression in the brain. Here, we provide evidence that maternal expos ...
... Both cytochrome P450c17 (CYP17A1) and P-450 side chain cleavage (CYP11A1) play important roles in steroid biosynthesis. According to our previous studies, bisphenol A (BPA) could regulate the mRNA expression of cyp17a1 and cyp11a1 in rare minnow Gobiocypris rarus. However, the potential mechanism of the regulation is barely understood. In the present study, aiming to explore how BPA affects the mR ...
DNA methylation; Danio rerio; adults; bisphenol A; embryo (animal); epigenetics; female fertility; females; gene expression; genes; germ cells; gonads; males; meiosis; messenger RNA; mitosis; urine; Canada; United States
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... Bisphenol A (BPA) is consistently present in the environment and studies have shown BPA presence in the urine of over 90% of population tested in Canada and USA. In addition to its reported harmful effects, there is concern for its transgenerational effects. For a compound to induce a transgenerational effect, an epigenetic mark should be mitotically and meiotically stable and should not be reprog ...
... Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor used in manufacturing of plastic devices, resulting in an ubiquitous presence in the environment linked to human infertility, obesity or cardiovascular diseases. Both transcriptome and epigenome modifications lie behind these disorders that might be inherited transgenerationally when affecting germline. To assess potential effects of paternal exposure on ...