Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 245-255.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2020.04.001

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Low-dose of bisphenol A induced glucose and lipid metabolism disorders in mice by regulating PPARγ

LONG Zi, FAN Junshu, WU Guangyuan, WANG Xin, HAI Chunxu   

  1. Department of Toxicology, Shaanxi Key Lab of Free Radical Biology and Medicine, School of Public Health, Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment, Air Force Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2019-12-10 Revised:2020-05-21 Online:2020-07-31 Published:2020-08-01

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect and mechanism of low doses of bisphenol A (BPA) alone or in combination with high fat diet (HFD) on glucose and lipid metabolism in mice. METHODS: Sixty C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into five groups for exposure to BPA at different concentrations[1,10, 100,1 000 μg/(kg·d)]. After determining the optimal dose,another 60 C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into 5 groups:control,BPA,BPA+HFD,HFD,BPA+Ginsenoside Rh1 (Rh1). The function of glucose and lipid metabolism in mice was evaluated by measuring liver triglyceride (TG) content and glucose tolerance. RESULTS: After exposure of 10 μg/(kg·d) BPA,morphological and biochemical determinations showed that these mice had the highest lipid accumulation. Compared with the control group, BPA exposure resulted in increased liver TG levels and decreased glucose tolerance (P < 0.05). Compared with HFD group,mice from the BPA + HFD group had increased liver TG content and decreased glucose tolerance (P < 0.05). Expression levels of peroxidosomal proliferator activated receptor γ (PPARγ), sterol regulatory element binding protein 1 (SREBP1), fatty acid synthase (FASN) and stearyl coenzyme A desaturase 1 (SCD-1), which are related to adipogenesis, were significantly increased (P < 0.05). In BPA exposed mice treated with Rh1, liver TG levels were significantly reduced compared with the BPA exposed mice (P < 0.05). CONSLUSION: BPA exposure induced glucose and lipid metabolism disorders in mice, and aggravate HFD-induced glucose and lipid metabolism disorders. BPA regulated a series of lipid metabolism-related genes to induce lipid accumulation, leading to the disorder of glucose and lipid metabolism. Inhibition of PPARγ expression with Rh1 significantly alleviated BPA-induced disorders of glucose and lipid metabolism. Therefore, increased PPARγ transcription could be a key reason of glucose and lipid metabolism disorder induced by BPA.

Key words: bisphenol A, low dose exposure, high fat diet, PPARγ, glucose and lipid metabolic disorder

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