ArticleEndocrinology2012
Gestational exposure to bisphenol a produces transgenerational changes in behaviors and gene expression.
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162 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 315 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Impact of Bisphenol A on Thyroid Function in Neonates and Children: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Germline and Embryonic Mechanisms in the Epigenetic Inheritance of Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Traits in Mammals.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- The rise of historical epigenomics and temporal analysis of gene regulation.Genome biology · 2025Review
- PBDE Flame Retardant Exposure Causes Neurobehavioral and Transcriptional Effects in First-Generation but Not Second-Generation Offspring Fish.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Environmental Xenobiotics and Epigenetic Modifications: Implications for Human Health and Disease.Journal of xenobiotics · 2025Review
- Loss of adult visual responses by developmental BPA exposure is correlated with altered estrogenic signaling.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Dietary phytoestrogens recalibrate socioemotional behavior in C57Bl/6J mice in a sex- and timing-dependent manner.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Sex-specific effects of prenatal bisphenol A exposure on transcriptome-interactome profiles of autism candidate genes in neural stem cells from offspring hippocampus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intergenerational and transgenerational effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the offspring brain development and behavior.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Generational stability of epigenetic transgenerational inheritance facilitates adaptation and evolution.Epigenetics · 2024Review
- Observational methods for human studies of transgenerational effects.Epigenetics · 2024Article
- Medaka liver developed Human NAFLD-NASH transcriptional signatures in response to ancestral bisphenol A exposure.Research square · 2024Article
- Sex-specific expression of the human NAFLD-NASH transcriptional signatures in the liver of medaka with a history of ancestral bisphenol A exposure.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- A scoping review of multigenerational impacts of grandparental exposures on mental health in grandchildren.Current environmental health reports · 2023Article
- Transgenerational Epigenetic DNA Methylation Editing and Human Disease.Biomolecules · 2023Review
- The PCOS-NAFLD Multidisease Phenotype Occurred in Medaka Fish Four Generations after the Removal of Bisphenol A Exposure.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- 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
- Ancestral BPA exposure caused defects in the liver of medaka for four generations.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Effects of prenatal bisphenol S and bisphenol F exposure on behavior of offspring mice.Animal cells and systems · 2023Article
- Adolescent social housing protects against adult emotional and cognitive deficits and alters the PFC and NAc transcriptome in male and female C57BL/6J mice.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a plasticizer and an endocrine-disrupting chemical. It is present in a variety of products used daily including food containers, paper, and dental sealants and is now widely detected in human urine and blood. Exposure to BPA during development may affect brain organization and behavior, perhaps as a consequence of its actions as a steroid hormone agonist/antagonist and/or an epigenetic modifier. Here we show that BPA produces transgenerational alterations in genes and behavior. Female mice received phytoestrogen-free chow with or without BPA before mating and throughout gestation. Plasma levels of BPA in supplemented dams were in a range similar to those measured in humans. Juveniles in the first generation exposed to BPA in utero displayed fewer social interactions as compared with control mice, whereas in later generations (F(2) and F(4)), the effect of BPA was to increase these social interactions. Brains from embryos (embryonic d 18.5) exposed to BPA had lower gene transcript levels for several estrogen receptors, oxytocin, and vasopressin as compared with controls; decreased vasopressin mRNA persisted into the F(4) generation, at which time oxytocin was also reduced but only in males. Thus, exposure to a low dose of BPA, only during gestation, has immediate and long-lasting, transgenerational effects on mRNA in brain and social behaviors. Heritable effects of an endocrine-disrupting chemical have implications for complex neurological diseases and highlight the importance of considering gene-environment interactions in the etiology of complex disease.
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