Abstract
Increasing concern is being given to the association between risk of cancer and exposure to low-dose bisphenol A (BPA), especially in young-aged population. In this study, we investigated the effects of repeated oral treatment of low to high dose BPA in juvenile Sprague-Dawley rats. Exposing juvenile rats to BPA (0, 0.5, 5, 50, and 250 mg/kg oral gavage) from post-natal day 9 for 90 days resulted in higher food intakes and increased body weights in biphasic dose-effect relationship. Male mammary glands were atrophied at high dose, which coincided with sexual pre-maturation of females. Notably, proliferative changes with altered cell foci and focal inflammation were observed around bile ducts in the liver of all BPA-dosed groups in males, which achieved statistical significance from 0.5 mg/kg (ANOVA, Dunnett’s test, p<0.05). Toxicokinetic analysis revealed that systemic exposure to BPA was greater at early age (e.g., 210-fold in Cmax, and 26-fold in AUC at 50 mg/kg in male on day 1 over day 90) and in females (e.g., 4-fold in Cmax and 1.6-fold in AUC at 50 mg/kg vs. male on day 1), which might have stemmed from either age- or gender-dependent differences in metabolic capacity. These results may serve as evidence for the association between risk of cancer and exposure to low-dose BPA, especially in young children, as well as for varying toxicity of xenobiotics in different age and gender groups.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 545-552 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Biomolecules and Therapeutics |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by grants from Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in 2015 (15162MFDS631) and the Korea Mouse Phenotyping Center (2016M3A9D5A01952416).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology.
Keywords
- Bile duct proliferation
- Bisphenol A
- Juvenile animals
- Toxicokinetics