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TOXICOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 135, Issue 1-2, Pages 95-101Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(02)00252-7
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bisphenol A; endothelial cell; estrogen; nitric oxide; xenoestrogen
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Biological actions of bisphenol A (BPA), an environmental chemical, have not been fully elucidated. We studied effect of BPA on nitric oxide (NO) synthesis in the murine endothelial cell line, MSS31. BPA (1-100 muM) increased nitrite/nitrate, a stable metabolites of NO, levels in culture medium of MSS31. However, Western blotting showed that the level of endothelial NO synthase protein was not increased by 16 h of treatment with BPA (10 muM). ICI 182,780 (10 muM), an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist, suppressed BPA-induced NO synthesis while actinomycin D (1 mug/ml), a transcription inhibitor, or cycloheximide (40 muM), a protein synthesis inhibitor, exhibited no effect on BPA-induced NO synthesis. These results indicate that BPA stimulates NO synthesis through a non-genotnic ER-mediated mechanism. Short-term effects of BPA on NO synthesis were weak but similar to 17beta-estradiol. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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