Exposure to Zearalenone and its Impact on Maternal and Fetal Health

接触玉米赤霉烯酮及其对孕产妇和胎儿健康的影响

• 批准号: 10460821
• 负责人: Carolyn Kinkade
• 金额: $ 4.21万
• 依托单位: RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10460821
• 关键词: 10 year old; 3-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases; Age; Animal Model; Animals; Aromatase; Binding; Biological; Biological Assay; Biological Markers; Biological Models; Birth; CYP17A1 gene; Cattle; Chemical Structure; Child; Cohort Studies; Collection; Communication; Consumption; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Diet; ESR1 gene; Endocrine; Endocrine Disruptors; Endocrine disruption; Endocrine system; Environmental Exposure; Enzymes; Epidemiology; Estradiol; Estriol; Estrogen Nuclear Receptor; Estrogen Receptor alpha; Estrogen Receptors; Estrogens; Estrone; European Union; Exposure to; Family suidae; Fellowship; Fetal Growth; Fetal health; First Pregnancy Trimester; Food; Food Contamination; Food Supply; Funding; Gonadal Steroid Hormones; Grain; Grant; Growth; Habitats; Hormones; Human; Human Development; Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases; Impairment; In Vitro; Infant; Infant Development; Infertility; Ingestion; International; Laboratories; Length; Linear Models; Liquid substance; Literature; Livestock; Maternal Health; Measures; Meat; Medical; Methods; Modeling; Mus; Mycotoxins; Nuclear Envelope; Outcome; Parents; Pathway interactions; Phenotype; Placenta; Plants; Population; Pregnancy; Pregnant Women; Prevalence; Progesterone Receptors; Property; Protein Analysis; Proteins; Public Policy; Rattus; Reproductive system; Research; Risk; Risk Assessment; Sampling; Science; Scientist; Signal Transduction; Skinfold Thickness; Source; Spontaneous abortion; Steroid biosynthesis; Testing; Tissues; Training; Translating; Urine; Vulnerable Populations; Weight Gain; Woman; Work; Writing; Zearalenone; Zeranol; adverse outcome; biological specimen archives; career; climate change; climate zone; cohort; cost effective; design; dietary; epidemiology study; estrogenic; exposed human population; fetal; gestational weight gain; girls; health of the mother; in vitro Model; in vivo; innovation; maternal serum; maternal weight; novel; offspring; perinatal outcomes; prenatal exposure; promoter; prospective; recruit; reproductive; sex; steroid hormone biosynthesis; urinary

Project Summary/Abstract Mycotoxin food contamination, potentially exacerbated by climate change, is a growing international concern. The fungal metabolite, zearalenone (ZEN), is an endocrine-disrupting mycotoxin commonly found on plants such as corn and grains grown in the temperate climate zone. Additionally, although banned in the European Union, the synthetic derivative, zeranol, is administered to livestock in the U.S. making meat consumption an additional source of U.S. exposure. Humans are exposed to ZEN and zeranol by ingesting contaminated grain-derived products or products from animals fed contaminated diets. There is a large body of evidence on the prevalence of ZEN and its metabolites in food products and in human biological fluids and exposure is expected to rise further with climate change leading to warmer, wetter habitats. This widespread exposure is concerning given that its chemical structure closely resembles 17β-estradiol (E2) which enables direct binding to nuclear estrogen receptors α (ER-α) and β (ER-β). The ability of ZEN and its metabolites to bind to estrogen receptors earned their designation as `mycoestrogens'. In vivo, substantial evidence demonstrates that mycoestrogens disrupt the endocrine and reproductive systems in rats, mice, cows, and pigs, leading to adverse outcomes such as hyperestrogenism, infertility, miscarriage, lower gestational weight gain, and reduced fetal size. In vitro evidence further demonstrates that ZEN disrupts sex steroid hormone biosynthesis. Given the wide-ranging impact of endocrine-disrupting effects in vivo and in vitro model systems and ubiquitous exposure to mycoestrogens worldwide, humans studies are urgently needed. This project capitalizes on a prospective birth cohort study (n=326) with biospecimen collection at each trimester, to examine the impact of mycoestrogen exposure on maternal and fetal health outcomes. Laboratory assays to quantify mycoestrogens in maternal urine in each trimester as well as term placenta are ongoing. We will use those data to translate the in vitro and animal evidence that mycoestrogen exposure leads to reduced gestational weight gain, altered circulating hormone levels and placental sex steroid expression, and smaller size at birth in humans. We will fit longitudinal regression models to test the hypothesis that higher mycoestrogen concentrations are associated with decreased circulating estrogens during pregnancy and reduced gestational weight gain. Linear models will inform on the impact of ZEN on placental expression of steroidogenic markers including expression of estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1). Finally, we will examine impacts of ZEN on infant size at birth. These studies will be valuable for risk assessment and will inform public policy to reduce exposure among vulnerable populations (infants, children) or during sensitive periods such as gestation.

项目概要/摘要 气候变化可能会加剧霉菌毒素食品污染，这是国际社会日益关注的问题。 真菌代谢物玉米赤霉烯酮 (ZEN) 是一种内分泌干扰性霉菌毒素，常见于植物中，例如 此外，尽管在欧盟被禁止，但在温带气候区种植的玉米和谷物， 在美国，合成衍生物玉米赤霉醇被用于饲养牲畜，这使得肉类消费成为额外的负担 美国的暴露来源：人类通过摄入受污染的谷物而接触 ZEN 和玉米赤霉醇。 产品或来自食用受污染饮食的动物的产品 有大量证据表明这种现象的流行。 ZEN 及其代谢物在食品和人体生物体液中的含量预计会上升 此外，气候变化导致栖息地变得更温暖、更潮湿，这种广泛的暴露令人担忧。 其化学结构与 17β-雌二醇 (E2) 非常相似，能够直接与核雌激素结合 受体 α (ER-α) 和 β (ER-β) ZEN 及其代谢物具有与雌激素受体结合的能力。 它们被称为“真菌雌激素” 在体内，大量证据表明真菌雌激素会破坏体内的 大鼠、小鼠、牛和猪的内分泌和生殖系统，导致不良后果，例如 雌激素过多、不孕、流产、妊娠体重增加减少和胎儿体积减小。 鉴于 ZEN 的广泛影响，进一步证明 ZEN 会破坏性类固醇激素的生物合成。 体内和体外模型系统的内分泌干扰作用以及普遍暴露于真菌雌激素 在世界范围内，迫切需要进行人类研究，该项目利用了前瞻性出生队列研究。 (n=326) 在每个妊娠期收集生物样本，以检查真菌雌激素暴露对 实验室检测以量化母体尿液中的霉菌雌激素。 妊娠期和足月胎盘正在进行中，我们将使用这些数据来翻译体外和动物实验。 有证据表明，接触霉菌雌激素会导致妊娠期体重增加、循环激素减少 我们将拟合纵向回归。 模型来检验较高的霉菌雌激素浓度与循环减少相关的假设 怀孕期间雌激素和妊娠体重增加减少的影响将通过线性模型得出。 ZEN 对类固醇生成标记物胎盘表达的影响，包括雌激素受体 1 (ESR1) 的表达。 最后，我们将研究 ZEN 对婴儿出生时体型的影响。这些研究对于风险评估很有价值。 并将为公共政策提供信息，以减少弱势群体（婴儿、儿童）或在 敏感期，如妊娠期。