1. Joint Toxicity of Arsenic, Copper and Glyphosate on Behavior, Reproduction and Heat Shock Protein Response in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Chuantao Song, Zhuheng Li, Yunbiao Wang, Anastasia N. Ezemaduka, and Zhanyan Chen
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0301 basic medicine ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Glycine ,chemistry.chemical_element ,010501 environmental sciences ,Toxicology ,01 natural sciences ,Arsenic ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Heat shock protein ,Animals ,Caenorhabditis elegans ,Heat-Shock Proteins ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,biology ,Reproduction ,Drug Synergism ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Pollution ,Copper ,Acute toxicity ,Hsp70 ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,Environmental chemistry ,Glyphosate ,Toxicity - Abstract
The soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was used in 24-h acute exposures to arsenic (As), copper (Cu) and glyphosate (GPS) and to mixtures of As/Cu and As/GPS to investigate the effects of mixture exposures in the worms. A synergistic type of interaction was observed for acute toxicity with the As/Cu and As/GPS mixtures. Sublethal 24-h exposures of 1/1000, 1/100 and 1/10 of the LC50 concentrations for As, Cu and GPS individually and for As/Cu and As/GPS mixtures were conducted to observe responses in locomotory behavior (head thrashing), reproduction, and heat shock protein expression. Head thrash frequency and reproduction exhibited concentration dependent decreases in both individual and combined exposures to the tested chemical stressors, and showed synergistic interactions even at micromolar concentrations. Furthermore, the HSP70 protein level was significantly increased following exposure to individual and combined chemical stressors in wild-type C. elegans. Our findings establish for the first time the effects of exposure to As/GPS and As/Cu mixtures in C. elegans.
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- 2016