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- Title
EFFECTS OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL CONTAMINANT TRICLOCARBAN, AND CO-EXPOSURE WITH THE ANDROGEN 17β-TRENBOLONE, ON REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION AND OVARIAN TRANSCRIPTOME OF THE FATHEAD MINNOW (PIMEPHALES PROMELAS).
- Authors
VillENeuve, Daniel L.; JENsEN, KathleEN M.; Cavallin, JENna E.; Durhan, Elizabeth J.; Garcia‐Reyero, Natàlia; Kahl, Michael D.; Leino, Richard L.; MakynEN, Elizabeth A.; Wehmas, Leah C.; Perkins, Edward J.; Ankley, Gerald T.
- Abstract
Triclocarban (TCC) is an antimicrobial agent routinely detected in surface waters that has been hypothesized to interact with the vertebrate endocrine system. The present study examined the effects of TCC alone and in combination with the model endocrine disruptor 17β-trenbolone (TRB) on fish reproductive function. Adult Pimephales promelas were continuously exposed to either 1µg TCC/L or 5µg TCC/L, to 0.5µg TRB/L, or to a mixture (MIX) of 5µg TCC/L and 0.5µg TRB/L for 22 d, and a variety of reproductive and endocrine-related endpoints were examined. Cumulative fecundity was significantly reduced in fathead minnows exposed to TRB, MIX, or 5µg TCC/L. Exposure to 1µg TCC/L had no effect on reproduction. In general, both TRB and MIX treatments caused similar physiological effects, evoking significant reductions in female plasma vitellogenin, estradiol, and testosterone, and significant increases in male plasma estradiol. Based on analysis of the ovarian transcriptome, there were potential pathway impacts that were common to both TRB- and TCC-containing treatment groups. In most cases, however, those pathways were more plausibly linked to differences in reproductive status than to androgen-specific functions. Overall, TCC was reproductively toxic to fish at concentrations at or near those that have been measured in surface water. There was little evidence that TCC elicits reproductive toxicity through a specific mode of endocrine or reproductive action, nor that it could augment the androgenic effects of TRB. Nonetheless, the relatively small margin of safety between some measured environmental concentrations and effect concentrations suggests that concern is warranted.
- Subjects
TRICLOCARBAN; ANTI-infective agents; ORGANOCHLORINE compounds; FATHEAD minnow; FUNGICIDES; ENDOCRINE disruptors
- Publication
Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 1, p231
- ISSN
0730-7268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/etc.3531