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TOXICOLOGY AND APPLIED PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 233, Issue 2, Pages 193-202Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2008.08.011
Keywords
Apolipoproteins; Cholesterol; Pregnane X receptor; Estrogen receptor alpha; Liver X receptors; Organochlorine insecticides; Chlordecone
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- Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station [CRE00871]
- National Institutes of Health [T32 ES007060]
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Chlordecone (CD) is one of many banned organochlroine (OC) insecticides that are widespread persistent organic pollutants OC insecticides alter lipid homeostasis in rodents at doses that are not neurotoxic or carcinogenic. Pretreatment of mice or rats with CD altered tissue distribution of a subsequent dose of [C-14]CD or [C-14]cholesterol (CH). Nuclear receptors regulate expression of genes important in the homeostasis of CH and other lipids. In this study, we report that CD suppresses in vitro reporter systems for human liver X receptors (LXRs) and activates those for human farnesoid X receptor (FXR), pregnane X receptor (PXR) and estrogen receptor alpha (ER alpha) in a concentration-dependent manner (0-50 mu M). Consistent with human PXR activation in vitro, three days after a single dose of CD (15 mg/kg) hepatic hepatic microsomal (CYP3A11 protein increases in C57BL/6 mice. CD decreases hepatic CH ester content without altering total CH concentration. Apolipoprotein A-1 (apoA-1) contents of hepatic lipoprotein-rich and microsomal fractions of CD-treated mice are higher than controls. There is a significant reduction in non-high density lipoprotein CH but not apolipoprotein B-48/100 (apoB-48/100) in plasma from CD-treated mice after a 4 h fast. At 14 days after 15 mg CD/kg apoA-1 and apoB-100 proteins but not CYP3A11 protein in hepatic microsomes are similar to controls. This work indicates that altered CH homeostasis is a mode of OC insecticide actions of relevance after a single dose. This at least partially explains altered CH tissue distribution in CD-pretreated mice. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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