Zehui Du , Shuai Li , Hongyuan Peng , Jiali Li , Ze Li , Shaoguo Ru , Weiwei Wang
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Abstract
Bisphenol S (BPS), as an environmental pollutant, is known to reduce brain lipid levels and induce neurotoxicity. However, whether brain lipid imbalance can induce neurotoxicity has not yet been clarified. Here, wild-type zebrafish and apoEb mutant zebrafish were used to investigate the effect of BPS on the macrophages proliferation and microglia mobilization caused by the decrease of cerebral lipids and its potential neurotoxic effects. The zebrafish exposed to BPS (1, 10, or 100 μg/L) from 2 hours after fertilization (hpf) to 3 days after fertilization (dpf) displayed microglial aggregation, as well as a decrease in brain lipid content. Lipidomic analyses of the brains and plasma of 50 dpf zebrafish exposed to BPS were used to identify key lipids, including lysophosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylcholine in brain and phosphatidylcholine in plasma. The apoEb mutant zebrafish as a hyperlipidemia model was used to further demonstrate that BPS-induced lipid reduction increased the number of microglia in the brain. Our data provide new insight into the mechanism by which pollutants cause neurotoxicity.
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Aquatic Toxicology publishes significant contributions that increase the understanding of the impact of harmful substances (including natural and synthetic chemicals) on aquatic organisms and ecosystems.
Aquatic Toxicology considers both laboratory and field studies with a focus on marine/ freshwater environments. We strive to attract high quality original scientific papers, critical reviews and expert opinion papers in the following areas: Effects of harmful substances on molecular, cellular, sub-organismal, organismal, population, community, and ecosystem level; Toxic Mechanisms; Genetic disturbances, transgenerational effects, behavioral and adaptive responses; Impacts of harmful substances on structure, function of and services provided by aquatic ecosystems; Mixture toxicity assessment; Statistical approaches to predict exposure to and hazards of contaminants
The journal also considers manuscripts in other areas, such as the development of innovative concepts, approaches, and methodologies, which promote the wider application of toxicological datasets to the protection of aquatic environments and inform ecological risk assessments and decision making by relevant authorities.