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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 271, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116395
Keywords
Acrylamide; Skeletal developmental toxicity; Osteoblasts; Osteoclasts; Embryos
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21976156, 21677127]
- China National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
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Exposure to acrylamide has adverse effects on skeletal development, including decreased survival and hatching rates, shortened body length, cartilage malformation, and disturbed bone mineral density. It disrupts the differentiation and maturation of osteoblasts and cartilage matrix, and promotes the formation of osteoclasts, ultimately leading to skeletal abnormalities.
Acrylamide is a well-known carcinogen and neurotoxic substance that has been discovered in frying or baking carbohydrate-rich foods and is widely found in soils and groundwater. The purpose of this study was to investigate the adverse effects of exposure to acrylamide on skeletal development. After treatment with acrylamide in zebrafish embryos, the survival and hatching rates decreased, and the body length shortened, with cartilage malformation and a decrease in skeletal area. Exposure to acrylamide in maternal rats during the lactation period disturbed bone mineral density, serum levels of parathyroid hormone, and the expression of skeletal development-related genes in neonates. Exposure to acrylamide in pregnant rats during the pregnancy period decreased the trabecular density and inhibited cartilage formation by delaying the differentiation of osteoblasts and promoting the maturation of osteoclasts in rat embryos. Furthermore, acrylamide intervention downregulated the expression of chondrocyte and osteoblast differentiation-related genes (sox9a, bmp2, col2a1, and runx2), and upregulated the expression of osteoclast marker genes (rankl and mcsf) in zebrafish and rat embryos at different gestational stages. Our results indicated that exposure to acrylamide dysregulated signature gene and protein expression profiles of skeletal development by suppressing the differentiation and maturation of osteoblasts and cartilage matrix and promoting the formation of osteoclasts, and ultimately induced skeletal abnormality in morphology, which brings increasing attention to the intergenerational toxicity of acrylamide via mother-to-child transmission. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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