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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2022

Multiple transcriptomic profiling: potential novel metabolism-related genes predict prepubertal testis damage caused by DEHP exposure.

Lian Kang, Jiadong Chen, Junke Wang, Tianxin Zhao, Yuexin Wei, Yuhao Wu, Lindong Han, Xiangqin Zheng, Lianju Shen, Chunlan Long and 2 more

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Endocrine Disrupting Agents: Toxicological Aspects on Male Reproduction.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2025
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Lian KangDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Jiadong ChenDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Junke WangDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Tianxin ZhaoDepartment of Pediatric Urology, Guangzhou Woman and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
Yuexin WeiDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Yuhao WuDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Lindong HanDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Xiangqin ZhengDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Lianju ShenDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Chunlan LongDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Guanghui WeiDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Shengde WuDepartment of Urology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China. shengdewu@hospital.cqmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0083-561X
Chongqing University · CNChina International Science and Technology Cooperation · CNGuangzhou Women and Children Medical Center · CN

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national natural science foundation of china 82071632
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The toxic effect of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) on prepubertal testes was examined in this study. We treated 3-week-old male mice with 4.8 mg/kg/day (milligram/kilogram/day) (no observed adverse effect level), 30 mg/kg/day (high exposure dose relative to humans), 100 mg/kg/day (level causing a reproductive system disorder), and 500 mg/kg/day (dose causing a multigenerational reproductive system disorder) of DEHP via gavage. Obvious abnormalities in the testicular organ coefficient, spermatogenic epithelium, and testosterone levels occurred in the 500 mg/kg DEHP group. Ribonucleic acid sequencing (RNA-seq) showed that differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in each group could enrich reproduction and reproductive process terms according to the gene ontology (GO) results, and coenrichment of metabolism pathway was observed by the Reactome pathway analysis. Through the analysis of common genes in the metabolism pathway, we discovered that DEHP exposure at 4.8 to 500 mg/kg or 100 mg/kg caused the same damages to the prepubertal testis. In general, we identified two key transcriptional biomarkers (fatty acid binding protein 3 (Fabp3) and carboxylesterase (Ces) 1d), which provided new insight into the gene regulatory mechanism associated with DEHP exposure and will contribute to the prediction and diagnosis of prepuberty testis injury caused by DEHP.

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Diethylhexyl PhthalateTestisAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingMaleMiceRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTranscriptomeDiethylhexyl PhthalateDEHPEnvironmental endocrine disruptorMetabolismPrepubertal testisRNA-seqToxic

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