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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 19, Pages 10758-10764Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es301804t
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- Science Foundation of Nanjing University
- Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51148003]
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Dechlorane plus (DP), a chlorinated flame retardant, has been widely detected in different environmental matrices and biota. However, toxicity data for DP have seldom been reported. In the present study, we investigated hepatic oxidative stress, DNA damage, and transcriptomic and metabonomic responses of male mice administered 500 mg/kg, 2000 mg/kg, and 5000 mg/kg of DP by gavage for 10 days. The results showed that DP exposure increased the level of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG). The rnicroarray-based transcriptomic results demonstrated that DP exposure led to significant alteration of gene expression involved in carbohydrate, lipid, nucleotide, and energy metabolism, as well as signal transduction processes. The NMR-based metabonomic analyses corroborated these results showing changes of metabolites associated with the above altered mechanisms. Our results demonstrate that an oral exposure to DP can induce hepatic oxidative damage and perturbations of metabolism and signal transduction. These observations provide novel insight into toxicological effects and mechanisms of action of DP at the transcriptomic and metabonomic levels.
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