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Correlation of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-induced apoptotic cell death in the embryonic vasculature with embryotoxicity.

Abstract：

:Vertebrate embryos are particularly sensitive to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Identification of tissues that are susceptible to the adverse effects of TCDD is requisite for understanding the embryo toxic effects of TCDD. The objective of the present study was to quantitate the temporal appearance of and dose dependence of apoptosis in TCDD-exposed medaka embryos (Oryzias latipes). A fluorescent-based DNA end-labeling assay provided a sensitive method for detection of TCDD-induced apoptosis in tissue sections of medaka embryos. Apoptotic cells were readily apparent in the medial yolk vein at all observed embryonic stages in TCDD-exposed embryos. Slope-comparison analysis indicated that TCDD-induced programmed cell death in the embryonic medial yolk vein was mechanistically linked to embryo mortality. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that vascular damage contributes to the acute embryo toxic effects of TCDD. However, as sublethal concentrations of dioxin-like compounds are more typical of environmental exposures, tissue damage was also assessed in medaka fry that were exposed to low doses of TCDD during embryonic development. Cell death was detected in gill and digestive tissues in visibly healthy medaka fry that had been exposed to low doses of TCDD during embryonic development. Increased expression of cytochrome P450 1A is a major biochemical consequence of TCDD exposure and is often used as a biomarker for exposure to dioxin-like compounds. Therefore, we compared the tissue distribution of TCDD-induced P450 1A expression and TCDD-induced programmed cell death. TCDD-induced programmed cell death co-localized with TCDD-induced P450 1A expression in both embryos and in visibly healthy post-hatch fry. Our results suggest that aberrant programmed cell death may be a suitable marker for exposure of feral organisms to dioxin-like compounds.

journal_name

Toxicol Appl Pharmacol

journal_title

Toxicology and applied pharmacology

authors

Cantrell SM,Joy-Schlezinger J,Stegeman JJ,Tillitt DE,Hannink M

doi

10.1006/taap.1997.8309

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-01-01 00:00:00

pages

24-34

issue

eissn

0041-008X

issn

1096-0333

pii

S0041-008X(97)98309-5

journal_volume

148

pub_type

杂志文章

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Correlation of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-induced apoptotic cell death in the embryonic vasculature with embryotoxicity.