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ToxSci Advance Access published online on March 7, 2003
Toxicological Sciences, doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfg023
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Received November 29, 2002; accepted December 9, 2002
© 2003 Society of Toxicology

Environmental Toxicology

Gestational Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants: Maternal Liver Residues, Pregnancy Outcome, and Effects on Hepatic Gene Expression Profiles in the Dam and Fetus

Adedayo Adeeko 1, Daming Li 1, Josée Doucet 2, Gerard M. Cooke 3, Jacquetta M. Trasler 4, Bernard Robaire 5, Barbara F. Hales 1*

1 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6
2 Toxicology Research Division, Health Products and Food Branch, Food Directorate, Health Canada, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L2
3 Toxicology Research Division, Health Products and Food Branch, Food Directorate, Health Canada, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L2; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
4 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6; Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6; Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6
5 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bhales{at}pharma.mcgill.ca.


  Abstract

Dietary exposure of Inuit people to a mixture of pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls, or persistent organic pollutants (POPs), during pregnancy is a public health concern. We examined the consequences of administering the mixture of 28 POPs found in the Inuit diet (at doses representing 10-1000 times dietary levels) by gavage to pregnant Sprague Dawley rats either during gestation days 0-19 or 8-19. The levels of individual components of the POPs mixture in the maternal liver were measured by high-resolution mass spectrometry. On gestation day 20, dams were sacrificed and pregnancy outcome determined. RNA isolated from maternal and fetal livers was 32P-labelled for gene expression profiling. The concentrations of individual POPs were increased in maternal livers of dams gavaged with the 1000X POPs mixture by 10 to 500-fold. While exposure to POPs had no significant effects on pregnancy outcome, dramatic changes were observed in the gene expression profiles of both the maternal and fetal livers. The gene expression profiles of maternal and fetal female and male liver were distinct with respect to the numbers of transcripts detected, the genes expressed exclusively in control or POPs-exposed livers, and those for which expression was up- or downregulated. While different genes were affected in each group, the overall consequence of POPs exposure on hepatic gene expression profiles was to decrease both the numbers of genes expressed and the relative intensity of expression. Thus, in utero exposure to POPs alters hepatic gene expression in the dam and the fetus; these changes may have functional implications.

persistent organic pollutants, microarray, liver, rat, fetus, pregnancy, gene expression, Inuit diet. .


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