Journal
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 157, Issue 1, Pages 24-32Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2012.09.001
Keywords
Anti-androgen; Linuron; Steroidogenic genes; Vitellogenin; Endocrine disruption
Funding
- Canada Research Chair
- NSERC Discovery Grant
- NSERC Industrial Research and Development Fellowship
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Linuron is a widely used urea-based herbicide that has anti-androgenic activity in both fish and rodents. To further elucidate the potential mode of action (MOA) of linuron on the vertebrate endocrine system, adult male and female fathead minnows were exposed for 21 days to dechlorinated water, a solvent control, 17 beta-estradiol (E2; 0.1 mu g/L), dihydrotestosterone (DHT; 100 mu g/L), linuron (1, 10, 100 mu g/L) and one co-treatment of DHT (100 mu g/L) and linuron (100 mu g/L). There were no effects of linuron on egg hatching, 7 day egg survival, nuptial tubercle formation or gonadal histopathology. Administration of DHT and 1 and 100 mu g/L linuron reduced plasma vitellogenin in females, while male plasma vitellogenin were induced after E2 exposure and co-exposure of DHT and linuron. Ovarian mRNA levels were examined for several genes involved in steroidogenesis (e.g. p450scc, cyp19a, star, tspo, hsd17b and hsd11b) and estrogen-mediated responses (esr1, esr26, esr2a). Only p450scc mRNA was significantly decreased with DHT+linuron co-treatment. Clustering of steroidogenic mRNA transcript expression patterns revealed that patterns for linuron were more similar to E2 compared to DHT. Collectively, this study supports the hypothesis that linuron may not be a pure anti-androgen and may have multiple MOAs that affect vertebrate reproduction. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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