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Title: | Environmental mixture with estrogenic activity increases Hsd3b1 expression through estrogen receptors in immature rat granulosa cells | Authors: | Samardzija Nenadov Dragana Pogrmić-Majkić Kristina Fa Svetlana Stanic Bojana Tubic Aleksandra Andrić Nebojša |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Journal: | Journal of Applied Toxicology | Abstract: | Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Humans are exposed not only to single endocrine disruptors, but also to chemical mixtures that can adversely affect their reproductive health. Steroidogenesis in reproductive tissues is emerging as the key target of endocrine disruptor action. Here, we analyzed the effect of environmental chemical mixtures with estrogenic activity on steroidogenic processes in immature rat granulosa cells and whether the observed steroidogenic effects were mediated through estrogen receptors. Extracts from untreated wastewater were prepared by solid-phase extraction and silica gel fractionation. ER-CALUX assay showed that the polar fractions of wastewater exerted different levels of estrogenic activity. Exposure of immature granulosa cells to the polar fraction exerting 9 ng of 17β-estradiol equivalents per liter of water of estrogenic activity increased mRNA expression of the key enzymes of progesterone biosynthetic pathway Star and Hsd3b1, but did not alter the level of Cyp19a1 and Lhr. Addition of estrogen receptor inhibitor ICI 182 780 prevented the estrogenic mixture-induced increase in Hsd3b1, but not Star mRNA level in immature granulosa cells. These results indicate that the environmental chemical mixtures with estrogenic activity exert endocrine disrupting effects by augmenting the progesterone biosynthetic pathway in immature rat granulosa cells, which is an effect achieved in part through activation of the estrogen receptors. | URI: | https://open.uns.ac.rs/handle/123456789/19042 | ISSN: | 0260-437X | DOI: | 10.1002/jat.3596 |
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