ArticlePloS one2011
Gestational exposure to low dose bisphenol A alters social behavior in juvenile mice.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 165 citations in OpenAlex.
- Perinatal Exposure to Environmental Endocrine Disruptors in the Emergence of Neurodevelopmental Psychiatric Diseases: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Integrated network toxicology, bioinformatics, and molecular docking reveal the potential molecular mechanisms linking bisphenol A to glioma progression.Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- Transcriptomic Changes Across the HPG Axis Following Prenatal Exposure to the EDC Mixture NeuroMix.Endocrinology · 2025Article
- Salt-induced Reduction of Hyperswarming Motility in Bacillus cereus MHS is Associated with Reduction in Flagellation, Nanotube Formation and Quorum Sensing Regulator plcR.Current microbiology · 2025Article
- Sex-specific impacts of prenatal bisphenol A exposure on genes associated with cortical development, social behaviors, and autism in the offspring's prefrontal cortex.Biology of sex differences · 2024Article
- Early-Life Exposure to a Mixture of Phenols and Phthalates in Relation to Child Social Behavior: Applying an Evidence-Based Prioritization to a Cohort with Improved Exposure Assessment.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Review
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- Evolutionary Implications of Environmental Toxicant Exposure.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Developmental and Reproductive Impacts of Four Bisphenols inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Biomonitoring of bisphenol A, 4-nonylphenol, and 4-t-octylphenol in Turkish population: exposure and risk assessment.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Two Hits of EDCs Three Generations Apart: Effects on Social Behaviors in Rats, and Analysis by Machine Learning.Toxics · 2022Article
- Effects of chronic exposure to bisphenol A in adult female mice on social behavior, vasopressin system, and estrogen membrane receptor (GPER1).European journal of histochemistry : EJH · 2021Article
- Fetal Bisphenol-A Induced Changes in Murine Behavior and Brain Gene Expression Persisted in Adult-aged Offspring.Endocrinology · 2020Article
- Data integration, analysis, and interpretation of eight academic CLARITY-BPA studies.Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Endocrine disruption of gene expression and microRNA profiles in hippocampus and hypothalamus of California mice: Association of gene expression changes with behavioural outcomes.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2020Article
- Bisphenol a Exposure in Utero Disrupts Hypothalamic Gene Expression Particularly Genes Suspected in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Neuron and Hormone Signaling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Epigenetic Modifications due to Environment, Ageing, Nutrition, and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Their Effects on the Endocrine System.International journal of endocrinology · 2020Review
- Perinatal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure alters brain oxytocin receptor (OTR) expression in a sex- and region- specific manner: A CLARITY-BPA consortium follow-up study.Neurotoxicology · 2019Article
- Hormonal Imprinting: The First Cellular-level Evidence of Epigenetic Inheritance and its Present State.Current genomics · 2019Review
- The epigenetic impacts of endocrine disruptors on female reproduction across generations†.Biology of reproduction · 2019Review
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Abstract
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a man-made compound used to make polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins; public health concerns have been fueled by findings that BPA exposure can reduce sex differences in brain and some behaviors. We asked if a low BPA dose, within the range measured in humans, ingested during pregnancy, would affect social behaviors in prepubertal mice. We noted sex differences in social interactions whereby females spent more time sitting side-by-side, while males engaged in more exploring and sitting alone. In addition BPA increased display of nose-to-nose contacts, play solicitations and approaches in both sexes. Interactions between sex and diet were found for self grooming, social interactions while sitting side-by-side and following the other mouse. In all these cases interactions were produced by differences between control and BPA females. We examined brains from embryos during late gestation to determine if gene expression differences might be correlated with some of the sexually dimorphic or BPA affected behaviors we observed. Because BPA treatments ended at birth we took the brains during embryogenesis to increase the probability of discovering BPA mediated effects. We also selected this embryonic age (E18.5) because it coincides with the onset of sexual differentiation of the brain. Interestingly, mRNA for the glutamate transporter, Slc1a1, was enhanced by exposure to BPA in female brains. Also we noted that BPA changed the expression of two of the three DNA methyltransferase genes, Dnmt1 and Dnmt3a. We propose that BPA affects DNA methylation of Sc1a1 during neural development. Sex differences in juvenile social interactions are affected by BPA and in particular this compound modifies behavior in females.
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