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Bo E, Farinetti A, Marraudino M, Sterchele D, Eva C, Gotti S, Panzica G. Adult exposure to tributyltin affects hypothalamic neuropeptide Y, Y1 receptor distribution, and circulating leptin in mice. Andrology 2016; 4:723-34. [PMID: 27310180 DOI: 10.1111/andr.12222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Revised: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Tributyltin (TBT), a pesticide used in antifouling paints, is toxic for aquatic invertebrates. In vertebrates, TBT may act in obesogen- inducing adipogenetic gene transcription for adipocyte differentiation. In a previous study, we demonstrated that acute administration of TBT induces c-fos expression in the arcuate nucleus. Therefore, in this study, we tested the hypothesis that adult exposure to TBT may alter a part of the nervous pathways controlling animal food intake. In particular, we investigated the expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) immunoreactivity. This neuropeptide forms neural circuits dedicated to food assumption and its action is mediated by Y1 receptors that are widely expressed in the hypothalamic nuclei responsible for the regulation of food intake and energy homeostasis. To this purpose, TBT was orally administered at a dose of 0.025 mg/kg/day/body weight to adult animals [male and female C57BL/6 (Y1-LacZ transgenic mice] for 4 weeks. No differences were found in body weight and fat deposition, but we observed a significant increase in feed efficiency in TBT-treated male mice and a significant decrease in circulating leptin in both sexes. Computerized quantitative analysis of NPY immunoreactivity and Y1-related β-galactosidase activity demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in NPY and Y1 transgene expression in the hypothalamic circuit controlling food intake of treated male mice in comparison with controls. In conclusion, the present results indicate that adult exposure to TBT is profoundly interfering with the nervous circuits involved in the stimulation of food intake.
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- E Bo
- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,National Institute of Neuroscience (INN), Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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- Department Neuroscience "Rita Levi Montalcini", University of Torino, Torino, Italy.,National Institute of Neuroscience (INN), Torino, Italy.,Neuroscience Institute Cavalieri-Ottolenghi (NICO), Torino, Italy
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Bruzzone M, Dellepiane C, Bo E, Cavo A, Giannelli F, Centurioni MG, Cosso M, Alessandri F, Vellone VG, Sirito R, Zanardi E, Buzzatti G, Messina C, Cattrini C, Gustavino C, Boccardo F. Cisplatin (C)-paclitaxel (P) chemotherapy (CT) regimen with concurrent radiotherapy (RT) in local advanced (LACC) or recurrent (LRCC) cervical cancer: 14 year-results of a phase II study. J Clin Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2016.34.15_suppl.5529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Milena Bruzzone
- Academic Unit of Medical Oncology, IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Radiation Oncology IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
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- Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
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- Department of Radiology IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
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- Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Anatomic Pathology Unit, Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics (DISC), Genova, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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- Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IRCCS San Martino University Hospital - IST National Cancer Research Institute, Genova, Italy
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- University of Genoa, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy
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Frye CA, Bo E, Calamandrei G, Calzà L, Dessì-Fulgheri F, Fernández M, Fusani L, Kah O, Kajta M, Le Page Y, Patisaul HB, Venerosi A, Wojtowicz AK, Panzica GC. Endocrine disrupters: a review of some sources, effects, and mechanisms of actions on behaviour and neuroendocrine systems. J Neuroendocrinol 2012; 24:144-59. [PMID: 21951193 PMCID: PMC3245362 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2011.02229.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 287] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Some environmental contaminants interact with hormones and may exert adverse consequences as a result of their actions as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Exposure in people is typically a result of contamination of the food chain, inhalation of contaminated house dust or occupational exposure. EDCs include pesticides and herbicides (such as dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane or its metabolites), methoxychlor, biocides, heat stabilisers and chemical catalysts (such as tributyltin), plastic contaminants (e.g. bisphenol A), pharmaceuticals (i.e. diethylstilbestrol; 17α-ethinylestradiol) or dietary components (such as phytoestrogens). The goal of this review is to address the sources, effects and actions of EDCs, with an emphasis on topics discussed at the International Congress on Steroids and the Nervous System. EDCs may alter reproductively-relevant or nonreproductive, sexually-dimorphic behaviours. In addition, EDCs may have significant effects on neurodevelopmental processes, influencing the morphology of sexually-dimorphic cerebral circuits. Exposure to EDCs is more dangerous if it occurs during specific 'critical periods' of life, such as intrauterine, perinatal, juvenile or puberty periods, when organisms are more sensitive to hormonal disruption, compared to other periods. However, exposure to EDCs in adulthood can also alter physiology. Several EDCs are xenoestrogens, which can alter serum lipid concentrations or metabolism enzymes that are necessary for converting cholesterol to steroid hormones. This can ultimately alter the production of oestradiol and/or other steroids. Finally, many EDCs may have actions via (or independent of) classic actions at cognate steroid receptors. EDCs may have effects through numerous other substrates, such as the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor and the retinoid X receptor, signal transduction pathways, calcium influx and/or neurotransmitter receptors. Thus, EDCs, from varied sources, may have organisational effects during development and/or activational effects in adulthood that influence sexually-dimorphic, reproductively-relevant processes or other functions, by mimicking, antagonising or altering steroidal actions.
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- C A Frye
- Department of Psychology, The University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
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Panzica GC, Bo E, Martini MA, Miceli D, Mura E, Viglietti-Panzica C, Gotti S. Neuropeptides and enzymes are targets for the action of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the vertebrate brain. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 2011; 14:449-72. [PMID: 21790321 DOI: 10.1080/10937404.2011.578562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) are molecules that interfere with endocrine signaling pathways and produce adverse consequences on animal and human physiology, such as infertility or behavioral alterations. Some EDC act through binding to androgen or/and estrogen receptors primarily operating through a genomic mechanism regulating gene expression. This mechanism of action may induce profound developmental adverse effects, and the major targets of the EDC action are the gene products, i.e., mRNAs inducing the synthesis of various peptidic molecules, which include neuropeptides and enzymes related to neurotransmitters syntheses. Available immunohistochemical data on some of the systems that are affected by EDC in lower and higher vertebrates are detailed in this review.
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- G C Panzica
- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Department of Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Forensic Medicine, Neuroscience Institute of Turin (NIT), University of Torino, Torino, Italy.
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Bo E, Viglietti-Panzica C, Panzica GC. Acute exposure to tributyltin induces c-fos activation in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus of adult male mice. Neurotoxicology 2010; 32:277-80. [PMID: 21185327 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2010.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2010] [Accepted: 12/16/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Tributyltin (TBT) is a largely diffused environmental pollutant, banned from paints in the European Union from 2003. However, the level of TBT (and other organotins) in food, particularly fish and shellfish, remains still high. Several studies demonstrated that TBT is involved in the development of obesity, via peripheral action, but currently, there are only a few data illustrating effects of TBT on the nervous system. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that acute exposure to TBT may directly activate brain cells in particular, in those hypothalamic nuclei regulating the food intake. To this purpose, TBT was orally administered at a single dose (10 mg/kg/body weight) to two groups of adult male mice: regularly fed or fasted for 24 h. Mice were sacrificed 90 min after the TBT administration and perfused by 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were quickly dissected, frozen and sectioned for immunocytochemical detection of c-fos, a common marker of cell activation. In both, fed or fasted mice, exposure to TBT induced a significant increase of c-fos expression in the arcuate nucleus in comparison to control mice. The other nuclei involved in the control of feeding behavior did not show any significant increase. These data are the first in vivo demonstration that TBT has not only peripheral effects, but also may activate elements in the brain, in particular in a crucial region for the regulation of food intake like the arcuate nucleus.
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- E Bo
- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Neuroscience Institute of Torino (NIT), National Institute of Neuroscience (INN, Torino), Dept. Anatomy, Pharmacology and Forensic Medicine, University of Torino, corso M. D'Azeglio 52, 10126 Torino, Italy
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Giubelli D, Bo E, Allais G, Conti L, De Lorenzo C, De Pietri P, Liboni W. [Evoked potentials and headache]. Minerva Med 1995; 86:367-78. [PMID: 7501227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The multiform clinical varieties of idiopathic headache still represent an unclearly defined nosological entity; what is more, there is still no definitive etiopathogenetic and clinical classification which is unanimously supported by specialists in this sector. Moreover, given that the physiopathological mechanism which triggers off the various forms of headache is still not completely clear, yet it is obvious that research is focused on the identification of a test which is valid in terms of clinical diagnosis but at the same time can contribute towards neurophysiological examination. In order for a test to be of practical use also in terms of neurophysiological research, as well as being diagnostic, it should be able to examine the patient's neurosensory function, offering advantages in clinical terms, and contribute to clarifying the role of neurotransmitters in pain genesis. The test must also be non-invasive, offer comparable results, be repeatable after short intervals and be well tolerated by children. These represent the fundamental characteristics of a test which is applicable to the heterogeneous population of headache sufferers. In this context evoked potentials (EPs), using various forms of sensorial stimulus, appear to represent the ideal test; by exploring the well known and anatomically well defined neuronal systems at various levels of the CNS, they also help to explore the neurotransmitter function of the former, providing further information regarding the genesis of the crisis. A review of the literature examined in the present study showed the validity of the tests both in discriminating the various clinical forms of headache and supplying important information regarding the neurotransmitter-related genesis of the chain of nervous and vascular alterations leading to cephalic pain.
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- D Giubelli
- Servizio di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Ospedale San Paolo, Milano
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An unusual case of an abnormally long-lasting (over 12 months) visual migraine aura is reported. The absence of signs of a structural lesion, as shown by neuro-imaging and clinical investigations, make difficult the differential diagnosis between a new variation and a complication of migraine.
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- E Luda
- Neurology Division, Molinette Hospital, Turin, Italy
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Rautenbach R, Herion C, Franke M, Asfour AFA, Bemquerer-Costa A, Bo E. Investigation of mass transport in asymmetric pervaporation membranes. J Memb Sci 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/0376-7388(88)80035-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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