期刊
TOXICOLOGY
卷 472, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tox.2022.153192
关键词
Bisphenol A; Cognitive function; Endocrine disruptor; Glucose transporter; Hippocampus; Insulin signaling pathway
资金
- Key Research and Development (R&D) Project of Shanxi Province [201903D321108]
- Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Shanxi Agricultural University [2016ZZ09]
The study indicates that BPA exposure has detrimental effects on cognitive function and insulin signaling pathway in male offspring mice, potentially posing a risk for long-term neurodegeneration.
Bisphenol-A (BPA), a well-known estrogenic endocrine disruptor, is generally applied to turn out plastic consumer products. Available data have manifested that exposure to BPA can trigger insulin resistance. Hence, the purpose of the actual study was to consider the impacts of BPA exposure on cognitive function and insulin signaling pathway in the hippocampus of male offspring mice. For this purpose, the pregnant female mice were treated either vehicle (0.1% ethanol) or BPA (0.01, 0.1, and 1 mu g/mL) via drinking water from day 1 of gestation until delactation (D1-PND21, newborn exposure). Afterward, the three-week-old male offspring mice took orally with the same doses of BPA for nine weeks (PND84). The behavioral tests, blood sugar level, histological observation, transcriptome sequencing, glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4), and hippocampal insulin signaling pathway were checked for the male offspring mice at 13 weeks of age (PND91). Our data indicated that BPA exposure impaired cognitive function, disrupted the hippocampal regular cell arrangement, increased blood glucose levels, disturbed the insulin signaling pathway including phosphorylated insulin receptor substratel (p-IRS1), protein kinase B (p-AKT), and glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (p-GSK3 beta). At the same time, the mRNA and protein expressions of GLUT4 were markedly down-regulated in the BPA-exposed groups. To sum up, it has been suggested from these results that BPA has detrimental effects on the insulin signaling pathway, which might subsequently be conducive to the impairment of cognitive function in the adult male offspring mice. Therefore, BPA exposure might in part be an element of risk for the long-term neurodegeneration in male offspring mice.
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