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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 17, Pages 9673-9680Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es3014634
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Widespread environmental contamination by bisphenol A (BPA) has created the need to fully define its potential toxic mechanisms of action (MOA) to properly assess human health and ecological risks from exposure. Although long recognized as an estrogen receptor (ER) agonist, some data suggest that BPA may also behave as an androgen receptor (AR) antagonist. However, direct evidence of this activity is deficient. To address this knowledge gap, we employed a metabolomic approach using in vivo exposures of fathead minnows (FHM; Pimephales promelas) to BPA either alone or in a binary mixture with 17 beta-trenbolone (TB), a strong AR agonist. Changes in liver metabolite profiles in female FHM in response to these exposures were determined using high resolution H-1 NMR spectroscopy and multivariate and univariate statistics. Using this approach, we observed clear evidence of the ability of BPA to mitigate the impact of TB, consistent with an antiandrogenic MOA. In addition, a transcriptional activation assay with the FHM AR was used to confirm the AR antagonistic activity of BPA in vitro. The results of these in vivo and in vitro analyses provide strong and direct evidence for ascribing an antiandrogenic MOA to BPA in vertebrates.
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