Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children
Methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are ubiquitous and persistent environmental chemicals with known or suspected toxic effects on the nervous system and the immune system. Animal studies have shown that tissue damage can elicit production of autoanti...
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ftsydanskunivpub:oai:sdu.dk:publications/2801cbde-62e7-4505-88fb-3d493a5fd24d 2024-09-15T18:05:42+00:00 Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children Osuna, Christa E Grandjean, Philippe Weihe, Pál El-Fawal, Hassan A N 2014-11-01 https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/2801cbde-62e7-4505-88fb-3d493a5fd24d https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfu163 eng eng https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/2801cbde-62e7-4505-88fb-3d493a5fd24d info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Osuna , C E , Grandjean , P , Weihe , P & El-Fawal , H A N 2014 , ' Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children ' , Toxicological Sciences , vol. 142 , no. 1 , pp. 158-166 . https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfu163 Autoantibodies Childhood Immunotoxicity Mercury Neurotoxicity Perfluorinated compounds Polychlorinated biphenyls Prenatal article 2014 ftsydanskunivpub https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfu163 2024-08-05T23:48:16Z Methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are ubiquitous and persistent environmental chemicals with known or suspected toxic effects on the nervous system and the immune system. Animal studies have shown that tissue damage can elicit production of autoantibodies. However, it is not known if autoantibodies similarly will be generated and detectable in humans following toxicant exposures. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study to investigate if autoantibodies specific for neural and non-neural antigens could be detected in children at age 7 years who have been exposed to environmental chemicals. Both prenatal and age-7 exposures to mercury, PCBs, and PFCs were measured in 38 children in the Faroe Islands who were exposed to widely different levels of these chemicals due to their seafood-based diet. Concentrations of IgM and IgG autoantibodies specific to both neural (neurofilaments, cholineacetyltransferase, astrocyte glial fibrillary acidic protein, and myelin basic protein) and non-neural (actin, desmin, and keratin) antigens were measured and the associations of these autoantibody concentrations with chemical exposures were assessed using linear regression. Age-7 blood-mercury concentrations were positively associated with titers of multiple neural- and non-neural-specific antibodies, mostly of the IgM isotype. Additionally, prenatal blood-mercury and -PCBs were negatively associated with anti-keratin IgG and prenatal PFOS was negatively associated with anti-actin IgG. These exploratory findings demonstrate that autoantibodies can be detected in the peripheral blood following exposure to environmental chemicals. The unexpected association of exposures with antibodies specific for non-neural antigens suggests that these chemicals may have toxicities that have not yet been recognized. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands University of Southern Denmark Research Portal Toxicological Sciences 142 1 158 166 |
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Methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are ubiquitous and persistent environmental chemicals with known or suspected toxic effects on the nervous system and the immune system. Animal studies have shown that tissue damage can elicit production of autoantibodies. However, it is not known if autoantibodies similarly will be generated and detectable in humans following toxicant exposures. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study to investigate if autoantibodies specific for neural and non-neural antigens could be detected in children at age 7 years who have been exposed to environmental chemicals. Both prenatal and age-7 exposures to mercury, PCBs, and PFCs were measured in 38 children in the Faroe Islands who were exposed to widely different levels of these chemicals due to their seafood-based diet. Concentrations of IgM and IgG autoantibodies specific to both neural (neurofilaments, cholineacetyltransferase, astrocyte glial fibrillary acidic protein, and myelin basic protein) and non-neural (actin, desmin, and keratin) antigens were measured and the associations of these autoantibody concentrations with chemical exposures were assessed using linear regression. Age-7 blood-mercury concentrations were positively associated with titers of multiple neural- and non-neural-specific antibodies, mostly of the IgM isotype. Additionally, prenatal blood-mercury and -PCBs were negatively associated with anti-keratin IgG and prenatal PFOS was negatively associated with anti-actin IgG. These exploratory findings demonstrate that autoantibodies can be detected in the peripheral blood following exposure to environmental chemicals. The unexpected association of exposures with antibodies specific for non-neural antigens suggests that these chemicals may have toxicities that have not yet been recognized. |
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Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children |
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Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children |
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Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children |
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Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children |
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Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children |
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autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children |
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Osuna , C E , Grandjean , P , Weihe , P & El-Fawal , H A N 2014 , ' Autoantibodies associated with prenatal and childhood exposure to environmental chemicals in faroese children ' , Toxicological Sciences , vol. 142 , no. 1 , pp. 158-166 . https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfu163 |
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