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| Author(s): |
Fabiana Moura Novaes Mendez
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-12-11 |
| Examining board members: |
Elaine Maria Frade Costa;
Tânia Aparecida Sartori Sanchez Bachega;
Maria Ines Borella
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| Advisor: | Elaine Maria Frade Costa |
| Abstract | |
The air quality in urban areas tends to have undesirable concentrations of contaminants from biomass combustion, without a monitoring system. In vivo findings show that diesel may contain compounds that modulate the activity of estrogen. In vitro studies support this idea, as the study with methylene chloride extract from diesel proves that this substance act as activators binding to the estrogen receptors (ERs). This study aims to evaluate the effect of exposure to metals present in diesel exhaust particles (PED) in ovary morphology through histology, and analysis of expression pattern of ERs in ovary of zebrafish (Danio rerio) using real time PCR metodology. Adult females were exposed to ambient concentrations of combined metals (Ni = 0.181 mg / L, Fe = 0.07455 mg / L Pb = 0,05 mg / L; Cd = 0.029 mg / L; = 0.161 mg Cr / L, Cu = 0.017 mg / L) for 3 days. The mean of atretic oocytes counting observed in animals exposed was 1.5 ± 0.4 and the controls was 1.34 ± 0.3. However, no significant difference between groups was observed (p> 0.05). The expression of the three genes estrogen receptor (esr1, esr2a, esr2b) mean were: 0.68, 1.32, 0.54, respectively. However, no significant change in the expression of these genes in relation to controls was observed. In conclusion, the trace elements present in the PED concentration in environmental and acute exposure in adulthood not alter the expression of ERs and does not affect the number of atretic follicles in the ovary (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/03980-0 - Study of the effects of particles from the atmospheric pollution in São Paulo city on the reproductive system of zebrafish (Danio rerio): histologic, morphologic and molecular analysis. |
| Grantee: | Fabiana Moura Novaes Mendez |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |