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ArticleEnvironmental toxicology and pharmacology2013

Does thyroid disruption contribute to the developmental neurotoxicity of chlorpyrifos?

Theodore A Slotkin, Ellen M Cooper, Heather M Stapleton, Frederic J Seidler

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Article in Environmental toxicology and pharmacology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. ZebrafishBiology open · 2019
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  8. Environmental Mechanisms of Neurodevelopmental Toxicity.Current environmental health reports · 2018
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  12. Toxic chemicals and thyroid function: hard facts and lateral thinking.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2015
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  14. Histopathological features of low-dose organophosphate exposure.Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Theodore A SlotkinDepartment of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina USA. Electronic address: t.slotkin@duke.edu.
Ellen M CooperNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina USA.
Heather M StapletonNicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina USA.
Frederic J SeidlerDepartment of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina USA.
Duke University · US

Funding

Zebrafish as a Detector of Organophosphate ExposureP42ES010356 · NIEHS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI EDWARD D LEVIN · 2000 to 2026
$56.2M
NIEHS NIH HHS ES010356NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES010356
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although organophosphate pesticides are not usually characterized as "endocrine disruptors," recent work points to potential, long-term reductions of circulating thyroid hormones after developmental exposures to chlorpyrifos that are devoid of observable toxicity. We administered chlorpyrifos to developing rats on gestational days 17-20 or postnatal days 1-4, regimens that produce distinctly different, sex-selective effects on neurobehavioral performance. The prenatal regimen produced a small, but statistically significant reduction in brain thyroxine levels from juvenile stages through adulthood; in contrast, postnatal exposure produced a transient elevation in young adulthood. However, in neither case did we observe the sex-selectivity noted earlier for neurobehavioral outcomes of these specific treatment regimens, or as reported earlier for effects on serum T4 in developing mice. Thus, although chlorpyrifos has the potential to disrupt thyroid status sufficiently to alter brain thyroid hormone levels, the effect is small, and any potential contribution to neurobehavioral abnormalities remains to be proven.

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Prenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsAge FactorsAnimalsBrainChlorpyrifosFemaleGestational AgeInsecticidesMaleMaternal ExposureNeurotoxicity SyndromesPregnancyRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyThyroid GlandThyroxineChlorpyrifosInsecticidesThyroxineanalysis of varianceANOVAchlorpyrifosChlorpyrifosCPFGDgestational dayOrganophosphate pesticidesPNpostnatal dayT4Thyroid hormonethyroxine

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PMID23686008
PMCPMC3745805
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