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TOXICOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 284, Issue -, Pages 143-151Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2017.11.019
Keywords
Endocrine disruption; Gonads; Development; Testosterone; Androgen; Sex reversal; Masculinization; Ovary; Testis; Chicken
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- Hessen ModellProjekte (HA project) [155/08-11]
- LOEWE (State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence) - Forderlinie 3: KMU-Verbundvorhaben
- BMBF (Fordermassnahme: Ersatzmethoden zum Tierversuch) [FKZ 031A104A/B]
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Morphological malformations induced by tributyltin (TBT) exposure during embryonic development have already been characterized in various taxonomic groups, but, nonetheless, the molecular processes underlying these changes remain obscure. The present study provides the first genome-wide screening for differentially expressed genes that are linked to morphological alterations of gonadal tissue from chicken embryos after exposure to TBT. We applied a single injection of TBT (between 0.5 and 30 pg as Sn/g egg) into incubated fertile eggs to simulate maternal transfer of the endocrine disruptive compound. Methyltestosterone (MT) served as a positive control (30 pg/g egg). After 19 days of incubation, structural features of the gonads as well as genome-wide gene expression profiles were assessed simultaneously. TBT induced significant morphological and histological malformations of gonadal tissue from female embryos that show a virilization of the ovaries. This phenotypical virilization was mirrored by altered expression profiles of sex-dependent genes. Among these are several transcription and growth factors (e.g. FGF12, CTCF, NFIB), whose altered expression might serve as a set of markers for early identification of endocrine active chemicals that affect embryonic development by transcriptome profiling without the need of elaborate histological analyses.
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