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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 198, Issue -, Pages 111-121Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.01.141
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Zearalenone; Oxidative stress; Antioxidant enzymes; Apoptosis; Histology; Zebrafish embryos
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- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) through Phase II project in DRDO-BU CLS, Coimbatore, India
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In the present study, we evaluated the zearalenone induced adverse effects in zebrafish embryos using various endpoints like embryo toxicity, heart rate, oxidative stress indicators (reactive oxygen species (ROS), lipid peroxidation (LPO), Nitric oxide (NO)), antioxidant responses (superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione S-transferase enzyme (GST) and reduced glutathione (GSH), metabolic biomarkers (lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and Nitric oxide (NO)), neurotoxicity (acetylcholinesterase (AChE)), genotoxicity (comet assay and acridine orange staining (AO)) and histological analysis. In this study, four concentrations 350, 550, 750 and 950 mu g/L of ZEA were chosen based on LC10 and LC50 values of the previous report. The results shows that ZEA induces developmental defects like pericardial edema, hyperemia, yolk sac edema, spine curvature and reduction in heart rate from above 550 mu g/L exposure and the severity was increased with concentration and time dependent manner. Significant induction in oxidative stress indices (ROS, LPO and NO), reduction in antioxidant defence system (SOD, CAT, GPx, GST and GSH) and changes in metabolic biomarkers (LDH and AP) were observed at higher ZEA exposed concentration. Neurotoxic effects of ZEA were observed with significant inhibition of AChE activity at higher exposure groups (750 and 950 mu g/L). Moreover, we also noticed DNA damage, apoptosis and histological changes in the higher ZEA treatments at 96 h post fertilization (hpf) embryos. Hence, in the present study we concluded that oxidative stress is the main culprit in ZEA induced developmental, genotoxicity and neurotoxicity in zebrafish embryos. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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