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Series GSE23154 Query DataSets for GSE23154
Status Public on Dec 31, 2010
Title Responsiveness of a premetamorphic Xenopus tadpole brain to hydroxylated PCBs
Organism Xenopus laevis
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls are the metabolites produced from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by drug-metabolizing enzyme cytochrome P450 1A1. These compounds are bound to transthyretin, a major plasma thyroid hormone-binding protein in amphibian tadpoles. The compounds-transthyretin complexes are transferred into the brain across the blood brain barrier in mammals. Thus these compounds are suspected to disrupt neural development in brain. We studied about the effects of hydroxylated PCBs on the thyroid system in brain using metamorphosing tadpoles of African clawed toad, Xenopus laevis. The metamorphosis assay revealed that these compounds had inhibitory effects on the thyroid hormone-induced metamorphosis. This in vivo assay was a powerful tool to detect thyroid-disrupting activities, because we were not able to detect the inhibitory effects of these compounds using thyroid hormone-responsive reporter gene assay in a cultured Xenopus cell line. A genome-wide gene expression analysis in brain following short-term exposure to these compounds demonstrated that the delay of metamorphosis and the morphological thyroid-disrupting changes could be caused partially by disruption of the thyroid hormone-induced gene expression by hydroxylated PCBs. Furthermore, we associated functional ontology terms with the transcripts whose expression were altered by thyroid hormone alone, or thyroid hormone and hydroxylated PCBs. We suggested that these approachs using a technique of bioinformatics revealed molecular mechanism of thyroid-disrupting activities in vivo.
 
Overall design Thyroid hormones induce amphibian metamorphosis and alter a lot of thyroid hormone-responsive gene expression. We studied about the effects of hydroxylated PCBs on TH-induced gene expression.
Premetamorphic tadpoles were treated with 500 nM hydroxylated PCBs in the presence of 1 nM thyroid hormone for 4 days. After exposure period total RNA was extracted from brain. Study included at least three replicate of each treatment.
 
Contributor(s) Ishihara A, Yamauchi K
Citation(s) 21523860
Submission date Jul 26, 2010
Last update date Mar 22, 2012
Contact name Akinori Ishihara
E-mail(s) saishih@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp
Organization name Shizuoka University
Street address 0ya 836
City Shizuoka
ZIP/Postal code 422-8529
Country Japan
 
Platforms (1)
GPL10726 Xenopus Gene Expression Microarray (AMADID: 015066)
Samples (17)
GSM570078 DMSO treat 1
GSM570079 DMSO treat 2
GSM570080 DMSO treat 3
Relations
BioProject PRJNA131575

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