Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Fertility Preservation and Maintenance of Ministry of Education, School of Basic Medical Sciences Ningxia Medical University Yinchuan China
2. State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research Center for Eco‐Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
Abstract
AbstractMicroplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) are novel environmental pollutants that are ubiquitous in the environment and everyday life. NPs can easily enter the tissues and have more significant potential health risks due to their smaller diameter. Previous studies have shown that NPs can induce male reproductive toxicity, but the detailed mechanisms remain uncertain. In this study, intragastric administration treated mice with polystyrene NPs (PS‐NPs, 50, and 90 nm) at 3 and 15 mg/mL/day doses for 30 days. Then, the fresh fecal samples were collected from those mice that the exposure doses of 50 nm PS‐NPs at 3 mg/mL/day and 90 nm at 15 mg/mL/day for subsequent investigations of 16S rRNA and metabolomics according to significant toxicological effects (Sperm number, viability, abnormality, and testosterone level). The conjoint analysis findings indicated that PS‐NPs disrupted the homeostasis of the gut microbiota, metabolism, and male reproduction, suggesting that abnormal gut microbiota‐metabolite pathways may be important in PS‐NPs‐induced male reproductive toxicity. Meanwhile, the common differential metabolites such as 4‐deoxy‐Erythronic acid, 8‐iso‐15‐keto‐PGE2, apo‐10′‐violaxanthin, beta‐D‐glucosamine, isokobusone, oleamide, oxoadipic acid, sphingosine induced by 50 and 90 nm PS‐NPs might be used as biomarkers to explore PS‐NPs‐induced male reproductive toxicity. In addition, this study systematically demonstrated that nano‐scale PS‐NPs induced male reproductive toxicity via the crosstalk of gut microbiota and metabolites. It also provided valuable insights into the toxicity of PS‐NPs, which was conducive to reproductive health risk assessment for public health prevention and treatment.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Key Research and Development Program of Ningxia
Subject
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Toxicology,General Medicine
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