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Wang J, Liu T, Liu L, Chen X, Zhang X, Du H, Wang C, Li J, Li J. Immune dysfunction induced by 2,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone, an emerging water disinfection byproduct, due to the defects of host-microbiome interactions. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 294:133777. [PMID: 35093416 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.133777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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2,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone (DCBQ), as an emerging water disinfection byproducts (DBPs), has posed potential risks via the digestion system. However, little is known about the toxicity of DCBQ on the gut microbiome, which plays a critical role on human health. This study has comprehensively investigated the impact of DCBQ on the intestinal microbiome, metabolic functions, and immunity after the mice orally exposure to DCBQ at the concentration of 31.25, 62.5 and 125 mg/kg body weight for 28 days. Our results indicated that DCBQ exposure has perturbed the balance between T helper (Th) 1 mediated pro-inflammatory response and Th2 mediated anti-inflammatory response in mice, especially inducing the activation of immune system toward a Th2 response. DCBQ group has induced gut microbiota dysbiosis, and at phylum level, Proteobacteria was relatively less abundant compared with that in the control group. Furthermore, DCBQ exposure has dramatically perturbed metabolites profiles which were involved in 28 metabolic pathways, such as amino acids biosynthesis and metabolism, lipid metabolism. In particular, the altered gut microbiota showed strong correlations with both the altered metabolites and the altered immunological variables after DCBQ exposure. This study provides evidence on the adverse effects and mechanisms of water disinfection byproduct DCBQ through the interaction of immune-microbiome-metabolome, highlighting the importance to assess DBPs-associated risks.
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- Jun Wang
- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China
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- China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 100021, China
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China.
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- Department of Health Toxicology, School of Public Health, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, 130021, China.
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Dibromoacetic Acid Induced Hepatotoxicity in Mice through Oxidative Stress and Toll-Like Receptor 4 Signaling Pathway Activation. OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY 2019; 2019:5637235. [PMID: 31827682 PMCID: PMC6886355 DOI: 10.1155/2019/5637235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Dibromoacetic acid (DBA) is one of haloacetic acids, often as a by-product of disinfection in drinking water. DBA is a multiple-organ carcinogen in rodent animals, but little research on its hepatotoxicity has been conducted and its mechanism has not been elucidated. In this study, we found that DBA could induce obvious hepatotoxcity in Balb/c mice as indicated by histological changes, increasing serum level of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and accumulation of hepatic glycogen, after the mice were administered DBA at doses of 1.25, 5, and 20 mg/kg body weight for 28 days via oral gavage. In mechanism study, DBA induced oxidative stress as evidenced by increasing the level of malondialdehyde (MDA), reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the liver, advanced oxidative protein products (AOPPs) in the serum, and decreasing the level of glutathione (GSH) in the liver. DBA induced inflammation in the liver of the mice which is supported by increasing the production of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and the mRNA levels of TNF-α, interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-1β (IL-1β), and nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) in the liver. DBA also upregulated the protein levels of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4, myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88), tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6), inhibitor of nuclear factor κB alpha (IκB-α), nuclear factor κB p65 (NF-κB p65), and the phosphoralation of P38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (P38MAPK) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK). Conclusion. DBA could induce hepatotoxicity in mice by oral exposure; the mechanism is related to oxidative stress, inflammation, and Toll-like receptor 4 signaling pathway activation.
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Jiang W, Chen Y, Li B, Gao S. DBA-induced caspase-3-dependent apoptosis occurs through mitochondrial translocation of cyt-c in the rat hippocampus. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2018; 13:1863-1873. [PMID: 28731097 DOI: 10.1039/c7mb00246g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Dibromoacetic acid (DBA), a by-product of disinfection, develops in drinking water during chlorination or ozonation processes. Water intake is the main source of DBA exposure in humans, which is potentially neurotoxic. The present study investigated the neurotoxic effects of DBA by assessing the behavioral and biochemical characteristics of Sprague Dawley rats intragastrically treated with DBA at concentrations of 20, 50 and 125 mg kg-1 body weight for 28 consecutive days. The results indicated that animal weight gain and food consumption were not significantly affected by DBA. However, shuttle box tests showed increases in mistake frequency and reaction latency between the control and high-dose group. We found significant changes in hippocampal neurons by histomorphological observation. Additionally, biochemical analysis indicated enhanced production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) resulting in disruption of cellular antioxidant defense systems including decreased mitochondrial superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and release of cytochrome c (cyt-c) from mitochondria into the cytosol, which can induce neuronal apoptosis. Furthermore, the increase of cyt-c in the cytosol enhanced caspase-3 and caspase-9 activity, which was confirmed by poly ADP-ribose polymerase-1 (PARP-1) cleavage to its signature fragment of 85 kDa and decreased levels of protein kinase C-δ (PKC-δ) in the hippocampus. Meanwhile, DBA treatment caused differential modulation of apoptosis-associated proteins and mRNAs for phosphorylated apoptosis signal regulating kinase 1 (p-ASK-1), phosphorylated c-jun N-terminal kinase (p-JNK), cyt-c, Bax, Bcl-2, caspase-9 and cleaved caspase-3 accompanied by DNA damage. Taken together, these data indicate that DBA may induce neurotoxicity via caspase-3-dependent apoptosis involving mitochondrial translocation of cyt-c in the rat hippocampus.
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- Wenbo Jiang
- Department of Toxicology, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province 150081, P. R. China.
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Dibromoacetic acid induced Cl.Ly1 + 2/−9 T-cell apoptosis and activation of MAPKs signaling cascades. Toxicol In Vitro 2018; 47:156-164. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2017.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Revised: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Jiang W, Li B, Chen Y, Gao S. The toxic influence of dibromoacetic acid on the hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex of rat: involvement of neuroinflammation response and oxidative stress. Metab Brain Dis 2017; 32:2009-2019. [PMID: 28844098 DOI: 10.1007/s11011-017-0095-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2016] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Dibromoacetic acid (DBA) exsits in drinking water as a by-product of disinfection as a result of chlorination or ozonation processes. Hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex are the key structures in memory formation and weanling babies are more sensitive to environmental toxicant than adults, so this study was conducted to evaluate the potential neurotoxicity effects of DBA exposure when administered intragastrically for 4 weeks to weanling Sprague-Dawley rats, at concentration of 0, 20, 50, 125 mg/kg via the neurobehavioral and neurochemical effects. Results indicated that animals weight gain and food consumption were not significantly affected by DBA. However, morris water maze test showed varying degrees of changes between control and high-dose group. Additionally, the level of malondialdehyde (MDA) and generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex of rats increased significantly. The activities of total superoxide dismutase (SOD) and the glutathione (GSH) content in the hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex of rats decreased significantly after treatment with DBA. Treatment with DBA increased the protein and mRNA expression of Iba-1, NF-κB, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-1β and HO-1 in the hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex of rats. These data suggested that DBA had a toxic influence on the hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex of rats, and that the mechanism of toxicity might be associated with the neuroinflammation response and oxidative stress.
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- Wenbo Jiang
- Department of Toxicology, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150081, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Toxicology, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150081, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Toxicology, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150081, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Toxicology, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, 150081, People's Republic of China.
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Gao SY, Zhou XR, Gong TT, Jia LM, Li BX. Dibromoacetic Acid Induces Thymocyte Apoptosis by Blocking Cell Cycle Progression, Increasing Intracellular Calcium, and the Fas/FasL Pathway in Vitro. Toxicol Pathol 2015; 44:88-97. [DOI: 10.1177/0192623315612939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Dibromoacetic acid (DBAA), a haloacetic acid found in drinking water as a disinfection by-product, can cause many adverse effects, including immunotoxicity. In a previous study, we confirmed that DBAA can induce obvious immunotoxicity in mice but that the underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. In our current study, we confirmed that DBAA induced cytotoxicity and apoptosis in thymocytes isolated from mice by a range of DBAA concentrations (0, 5, 10, 20, or 40 μM). The data showed that DBAA exposure led to a significant decrease in proliferative responses to T-cell mitogens and obvious inhibition in the production of cytokines interleukin-2 and interleukin-4. We found obvious morphological changes of apoptosis in thymocytes and observed the percentage of apoptotic thymocytes to increase significantly as the DBAA concentration increased. Further investigation showed that DBAA can cause G0/G1 arrest in cell cycle analysis, increase intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) levels, increase the expression of Fas/FasL proteins, and decrease the expression of Bcl-2 protein. It is concluded that in vitro exposure to DBAA can lead to marked cytotoxicity and apoptosis among thymocytes, and the mechanism involved is strongly related to blocking cell cycle progression, increasing intracellular calcium, and increasing Fas/FasL expressions.
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- Shu-Ying Gao
- Department of Toxicological Science, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Peoples’ Republic of China
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- Department of Occupational Health Science, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Peoples’ Republic of China
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- Department of Toxicological Science, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Peoples’ Republic of China
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- Environmental Monitoring Centre of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Peoples’ Republic of China
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- Department of Toxicological Science, School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, Peoples’ Republic of China
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Thakur SA, Nyska A, White KL, Smith MJ, Auttachoat W, Germolec DR. Immunomodulatory activity of orphan drug Elmiron® in female B6C3F1/N mice. Food Chem Toxicol 2014; 68:196-203. [PMID: 24657363 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2014.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2014] [Revised: 02/26/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic disorder characterized by bladder discomfort and urinary urgency in the absence of identifiable infection. Despite the expanding use in IC treatment and other chronic conditions, the effects of Elmiron® treatment on immune system remain unknown. Therefore, female B6C3F1/N mice were orally administered Elmiron® daily for 28-days at doses of 63, 125, 250, 500 or 1000mg/kg to evaluate its immunomodulatory effects. Mice treated with Elmiron® had a significant increase in absolute numbers of splenic macrophages (63, 500 and 1000mg/kg) and natural killer (NK) cells (250 and 1000mg/kg). Elmiron® treatment did not affect the humoral immune response or T cell proliferative response. However, innate immune responses such as phagocytosis by liver macrophages (1000mg/kg) and NK cell activity were enhanced (500 and 1000mg/kg). Further analysis using a disease resistance model showed that Elmiron®-treated mice demonstrated significantly increased anti-tumor activity against B16F10 melanoma cells at the 500 and 1000mg/kg doses. Collectively, we conclude that Elmiron® administration stimulates the immune system, increasing numbers of specific cell populations and enhancing macrophage phagocytosis and NK cell activity in female B6C3F1/N mice. This augmentation may have largely contributed to the reduced number of B16F10 melanoma tumors.
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- Sheetal A Thakur
- Toxicology Branch, Division of National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, RTP, NC, United States.
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- Integrated Laboratory Systems, RTP, NC, United States
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Toxicology Branch, Division of National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, RTP, NC, United States.
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Guo TL, Germolec DR, Collins BJ, Luebke RW, Auttachoat W, Smith MJ, White KL. Immunotoxicological profile of chloramine in female B6C3F1mice when administered in the drinking water for 28 days. J Immunotoxicol 2011; 8:381-8. [DOI: 10.3109/1547691x.2011.622317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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