Journal
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 211, Issue -, Pages 57-67Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2018.05.012
Keywords
Apoptosis; cyp1a; Daidzein; Embryos; esrrb; Genistein; Larvae; Thyroid; Toxicity; Zebrafish
Funding
- MINECO-Feeder-UE (Spain) [AGL2014-52906R]
- CSIC
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Based on the assumed oestrogenic and apoptotic properties of soya isoflavones (genistein, daidzein), and following the current OECD test-guidelines and principle of 3Rs, we have studied the potential toxicity of phytochemicals on the zebrafish embryos test (ZFET). For this purpose, zebrafish embryos at 2-3 h post-fertilisation (hpf) were exposed to both soya isoflavones (from 1.25 mg/L to 20 mg/L) and assayed until 96 hpf. Lethal and sub-lethal endpoints (mortality, hatching rates and malformations) were estimated in the ZFET, which was expanded to potential gene expression markers, determining the lowest observed effect (and transcriptional) concentrations (LOEC, LOTEC), and the no-observable effect (and transcriptional) concentrations (NOEC, NOTEC). The results revealed that genistein is more toxic (LC50-96 hpf: 4.41 mg/L) than daidzein (over 65.15 mg/L). Both isoflavones up-regulated the oestrogen (esrrb) and death receptors (fas) and cypla transcript levels. Most thyroid transcript signals were up-regulated by genistein (except for thyroid peroxidase/tpo), and the hatching enzyme (he1a1) was exclusively up-regulated by daidzein (from 1.25 mg/L onwards). The ZFET proved suitable for assessing toxicant effects of both isoflavones and potential disruptions (i.e. oestrogenic, apoptotic, thyroid, enzymatic) during the embryogenesis and the endotrophic larval period.
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