Slotkin_2019_Toxicology__152240

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Title : Perinatal diazinon exposure compromises the development of acetylcholine and serotonin systems - Slotkin_2019_Toxicology__152240
Author(s) : Slotkin TA , Skavicus S , Ko A , Levin ED , Seidler FJ
Ref : Toxicology , :152240 , 2019
Abstract :

Organophosphate pesticides are developmental neurotoxicants. We gave diazinon via osmotic minipumps implanted into dams prior to conception, with exposure continued into the second postnatal week, at doses (0.5 or 1 mg/kg/day) that did not produce detectable brain cholinesterase inhibition. We evaluated the impact on acetylcholine (ACh) and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5 H T) systems in brain regions from adolescence through full adulthood. Diazinon produced deficits in presynaptic ACh activity with regional and sex selectivity: cerebrocortical regions and the hippocampus were affected to a greater extent than were the striatum, midbrain or brainstem, and females were more sensitive than males. Diazinon also reduced nicotinic ACh receptors and 5 H T1A receptors, with the same regional and sex preferences. These patterns were similar to those of diazinon given in a much more restricted period (postnatal day 1-4) but were of greater magnitude and consistency; this suggests that the brain is vulnerable to diazinon over a wide developmental window. Diazinon's effects differed from those of the related organophosphate, chlorpyrifos, with regard to regional and sex selectivity, and more importantly, to the effects on receptors: chlorpyrifos upregulates nicotinic ACh receptors and 5 H T receptors, effects that compensate for the presynaptic ACh deficits. Diazinon can thus be expected to have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes than chlorpyrifos. Further, the disparities between diazinon and chlorpyrifos indicate the problems of predicting the developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphates based on a single compound, and emphasize the inadequacy of cholinesterase inhibition as an index of safety.

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Slotkin TA, Skavicus S, Ko A, Levin ED, Seidler FJ (2019)
Perinatal diazinon exposure compromises the development of acetylcholine and serotonin systems
Toxicology :152240

Slotkin TA, Skavicus S, Ko A, Levin ED, Seidler FJ (2019)
Toxicology :152240