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Bisphenol a exposure disrupts metabolic health across multiple generations in the mouse.
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- Hair-Based Biomonitoring of Phthalate Metabolites and Triclosan in Childhood: Links with Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Article
- Transient exposure to bisphenol F in early life affects the metabolic health of adults.Exposome · 2026Article
- Developmental programming: Differing impact of prenatal testosterone and prenatal bisphenol-A -treatment on hepatic methylome in female sheep.Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2025Article
- Bisphenol A Interferes with Mast Cell-Mediated Promotion of Cellular Processes Critical for Spiral Artery Remodeling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Association of the thyroid hormone sensitivity index with triglycerides in adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Hormones (Athens, Greece) · 2025Article
- Consensus on the key characteristics of metabolism disruptors.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2025Review
- Ancestral bisphenol A exposure led to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and sex-specific alterations in proline and bile metabolism pathways in the liver.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2025Article
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- Liver and Pancreatic Toxicity of Endocrine-Disruptive Chemicals: Focus on Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Stress.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Implications of Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Offspring Development: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Disposables used cumulatively in routine IVF procedures could display toxicity.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Observational
- The Role of Endocrine Disruptors Bisphenols and Phthalates in Obesity: Current Evidence, Perspectives and Controversies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Association between night eating frequency and thyroid function and sensitivity: a cross-sectional study from the NHANES database.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals impacts immunological and metabolic status of women during pregnancy.Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2023Article
- An Overview of the Health Effects of Bisphenol A from a One Health Perspective.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- The effects of trans fat diet intake on metabolic parameters and pancreatic tissue in offspring of prenatal bisphenol A exposed rats.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Endocrine disruptors in plastics alter β-cell physiology and increase the risk of diabetes mellitus.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2023Review
- Re-evaluation of the risks to public health related to the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) in foodstuffs.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023Article
- Inherited Epigenetic Hallmarks of Childhood Obesity Derived from Prenatal Exposure to Obesogens.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Association between serum vitamin D levels and sensitivity to thyroid hormone indices: a cross-sectional observational study in NHANES 2007-2012.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Observational
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Abstract
Accumulating evidence has suggested that a suboptimal early life environment produces multigenerational developmental defects. A proposed mechanism is stable inheritance of DNA methylation. Here we show that maternal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure in C57BL/6 mice produces multigenerational metabolic phenotypes in their offspring. Using various methods including dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry analyses, glucose tolerance tests, and perifusion islet studies, we showed that exposure to 10 μg/kg/d and 10 mg/kg/d BPA in pregnant F0 mice was associated with higher body fat and perturbed glucose homeostasis in F1 and F2 male offspring but not female offspring. To provide insight into the mechanism of the multigenerational metabolic abnormalities, we investigated the maternal metabolic milieu and inheritance of DNA methylation across generations. We showed that maternal glucose homeostasis during pregnancy was altered in the F0 but not F1 female mice. The results suggested that a compromised maternal metabolic milieu may play a role in the health of the F1 offspring but cannot account for all of the observed multigenerational phenotypes. We further demonstrated that the metabolic phenotypes in the F1 and F2 BPA male offspring were linked to fetal overexpression of the imprinted Igf2 gene and increased DNA methylation at the Igf2 differentially methylated region 1. Studies in H19(Δ3.8/+) mouse mutants supported the role of fetal Igf2 overexpression in altered adult glucose homeostasis. We conclude that early life BPA exposure at representative human exposure levels can perturb metabolic health across multiple generations in the mouse through stable inheritance of DNA methylation changes at the Igf2 locus.
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