Multi-biological defects caused by lead exposure exhibit transferable properties from exposed parents to their progeny in Caenorhabditis elegans

作     者：WANG Da-yong YANG Peng 

作者机构：Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology Southeast University Nanjing 210009 China Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease Ministry of Education of China Nanjing 210009 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Sciences》 (环境科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2007年第19卷第11期

页      面：1367-1372页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 071003[理学-生理学] 

基　　金：Project supported by the Southeast University Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars(No.4023001013) 

主　　题：lead exposure toxicity transferable phenotype behavior Caenorhabditis elegans 

摘      要：Whether the multi-biological toxicity from lead exposure could be transferred to progeny has not been clarified. In the present study, we explored the Caenorhabditis elegans to analyze the multiple toxicities from lead exposure and their possibly transferable properties. The lead exposure could cause series of severe multi-biological defects with a concentration-dependent manner by affecting the endpoints of life span, development, reproduction and locomotion behaviors in nematodes. Moreover, most of these toxicities could be transferred to progeny from lead exposed animals and some of the defects in progeny appeared even more severe than in their parents, such as the body sizes and mean life spans. We summarized the defects caused by lead exposure into three groups according to their transferable properties or rescue patterns. That is, the defects caused by lead exposure could be largely, or partially, or became even more severe in progeny animals. Therefore, our results suggest that lead exposure can cause severely multi-biological defects, and most of these multiple toxicities can be considered as transferable for exposed animals in C. elegans.