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TOXICON
Volume 56, Issue 8, Pages 1334-1341Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.07.017
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Apoptosis; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Liver; Microcystin-LR
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2008CB418102]
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To investigate the effect of microcystin-LR (MC-LR) on apoptosis based on the endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) pathway in mouse liver and kidney, male ICR mice were intraperitoneally injected with 20 mu g kg(-1) body weight MC-LR for 21 days, and mRNA and protein levels of ERS special molecules in liver and kidney were analyzed using quantitative real-time PCR and western blotting. MC-LR significantly improved mRNA and protein expression of C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) and cleaved caspase-12 in liver, whereas it inhibited expression of CHOP and caspase-12 in kidney. MC-LR also induced significant down-regulation of B-cell lymphoma/leukemia-2 (Bcl-2) mRNA expression in liver and weak up-regulation in kidney. These results indicated the involvement of the ERS pathway in MC-LR-induced apoptosis of hepatic cells but not in renal cells of mice. The weight changes and histological damage of liver and kidney were in accordance with the appearance of ERS. Our results indicate that ERS plays an important role in hepatic cell apoptosis induced by MC-LR, and is considered as a new pathway of liver toxicity. Its relative special genes might be considered as potentially new biomarkers used for risk assessment of MC-LR in the environment. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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