Using NMR metabolomics to identify responses of an environmental estrogen in blood plasma of fish

• Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based metabolomics in combination with multivariate data analysis may become valuable tools to study environmental effects of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals in aquatic organisms. To explore the usefulness of this approach in fish, we have used H-1 NMR metabolomics to compare blood plasma and plasma lipid extracts from rainbow trout exposed to the synthetic contraceptive estrogen ethinylestradiol (EE2) with plasma from control fish. The plasma metabolite profile was affected in fish exposed to 10 ng/L but not 0.87 ng/L of EE2, which was in agreement with an induced vitellogenin synthesis in the high dose group only, as measured by ELISA. The main affected metabolites were vitellogenin, alanine, phospholipids and cholesterol. The responses identified by this discovery-driven method could be put in context with previous knowledge of the effects of estrogens on fish. This adds confidence to the approach of using NMR metabolomics to identify environmental effects of pharmaceuticals and other contaminants. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Analytisk kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Analytical Chemistry (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Mikrobiologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Microbiology (hsv//eng)

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metabolomics

NMR

rainbow trout

ethinylestradiol

vitellogenin

blood plasmaAnimals

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

veterinary

Estrogens

blood

toxicity

Ethinyl Estradiol

blood

toxicity

Female

Male

Multivariate Analysis

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Biomolecular

methods

Oncorhynchus mykiss

blood

Vitellogenins

biosynthesis

blood

Water Pollutants

Chemical

blood

toxicity

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