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Chronic nitrate exposure cause alteration of blood physiological parameters, redox status and apoptosis of juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
卷 283, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117103

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Nitrate exposure; Blood physiological parameters; Redox status; Apoptosis; Scophthalmus maximus

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFD0901204]
  2. China Agriculture Research System [CARS47G21]
  3. STS project [KFZDSW106, ZSSD019, 2017T3017, KFJSTSQYZX020]
  4. Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology [2018SDKJ05022, 2015ASKJ02]
  5. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31672672]

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The exposure to nitrate had adverse effects on turbot, including hypoxic stress, disruption of osmoregulation and metabolism, abnormal apoptosis, and disruption of redox status. The toxicity of nitrate exposure was dose-dependent, peaked on the 15th day, and could cause long-term irreversible damage to fish.
Nitrate (NO3-) is one of the common inorganic nitrogen compound pollutants in natural ecosystems, which may have serious risks for aquatic organisms. However, its toxicological mechanism remains unclear. In the current study, juvenile turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) were exposed to different concentrations of NO3- (CK- 3.57 +/- 0.16, LN - 60.80 +/- 1.21, MN - 203.13 +/- 10.97 and HN - 414.16 +/- 15.22 mg/L NO3-N) for 60 d. The blood biochemical assays results revealed that elevated NO3- exposure significantly increased the concentrations of plasma NO3-, NO2-, MetHb, K+, cortisol, glucose, triglyceride, lactate, while significantly decreased the concentrations of plasma Hb, Na+ and Cl-, which meant that NO3- caused hypoxic stress and further affected the osmoregulation and metabolism in fish. Besides, exposure to MN and HN induced a significant decrease in the level of antioxidants, including SOD (Point: 60th day, MN, HN v.s. CK: 258.36, 203.73 v.s. 326.95 U/mL), CAT (1.97, 1.17 v.s. 2.37 U/mL), GSH (25.38, 20.74 v.s. 37.00 mmol/L), and GPx (85.32, 71.46 v.s. 129.36 U/mL), and a significant increase of MDA (7.54, 9.73 v.s. 5.27 nmol/L), suggesting that NO3- exposure leading to a disruption of the redox status in fish. Also, further research revealed that NO3- exposure altered the mRNA levels of p53 (HN: up to 4.28 folds) and p53-regulated downstream genes such as Bcl-2 (inferior to 0.44 folds), caspase-3 (up to 2.90 folds) and caspase-7 (up to 3.49 folds), indicating that NO3- exposure induced abnormal apoptosis in the fish gills. Moreover, IBRv2 analysis showed that the toxicity of NO3- exposure to turbot was dose-dependent, and the toxicity peaked on the 15th day. In short, NO3- is an environmental toxicological factor that cannot be ignored, because its toxic effects are long-term and could cause irreversible damage to fish. These results would be beneficial to improve our understanding of the toxicity mechanism of NO3- to fish, which provides baseline evidence for the risk assessment of environmental NO3- in aquatic ecosystems. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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