acuta was maximal in terms of live and dry mass at salinity levels 500-1000 microS/cm. This was done to examine the assumption that there is no direct effect of salinity on freshwater animals until a threshold, beyond which sub-lethal effects, such as reduction in growth and reproduction, will occur. The growth and reproduction of the freshwater snail Physa acuta ( Gastropoda: Physidae) were measured at various salinity levels (growth: distilled water, 50, 100, 500, 10 microS/cm reproduction: deionized water, 100, 500, 10 microS/cm) established using the artificial sea salt, Ocean Nature. No evidence for a critical salinity threshold for growth and reproduction in the freshwater snail Physa acuta. acuta is an appropriate sentinel organism to evaluate the effect of EDCs in the freshwater environment. In conclusion, these data provide, for the first time, evidences of molecular effects produced by BPA in the endocrine system of Gastropoda, supporting the potential of ER, ERR and RXR as biomarkers to analyse putative EDCs in ecotoxicological studies.
Finally, we assessed the glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activity after BPA treatment and found that it was affected after 48h.
Additionally, the hsp70 expression was upregulated after 5 and 72h of BPA exposures, but hsp90 was only upregulated after 5h of BPA exposure. Real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis showed that BPA induced a significant increase in the mRNA levels of ER, ERR, and RXR, suggesting that these receptors could be involved in similar pathways or regulation events in the endocrine disruptor activity of this chemical at the molecular level in Gastropoda. acuta were evaluated at the molecular level by analysing changes in the transcriptional activity of the endocrine-related genes oestrogen receptor (ER), oestrogen-related receptor (ERR), and retinoid X receptor (RXR), as well as in genes involved in the stress response, such as hsp70 and hsp90. The effects following a range of exposure times (5-96h) to BPA in P. This study was conducted to explore the effects of BPA on the Gastropoda endocrine system. The freshwater pulmonate Physa acuta is a sensitive organism to xenobiotics appropriate for aquatic toxicity testing in environmental studies. Morales, Mónica MartÃnez-Paz, Pedro Sánchez-Argüello, Paloma Morcillo, Gloria MartÃnez-Guitarte, José Luisīisphenol A (BPA), a known endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) that can mimic the action of oestrogens by interacting with hormone receptors, is potentially able to influence reproductive functions in vertebrates and invertebrates. A very comfortable, casual and sensual style.Bisphenol A (BPA) modulates the expression of endocrine and stress response genes in the freshwater snail Physa acuta.
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