Johnstone Andrew F M, Strickland Jenna D, Crofton Kevin M, Gennings Chris, Shafer Timothy J
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States.
Axion Biosystems, Atlanta GA, United States.
Neurotoxicology. 2017 May;60:234-239. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2016.05.005. Epub 2016 May 10.
Pyrethroid insecticides exert their insecticidal and toxicological effects primarily by disrupting voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) function, resulting in altered neuronal excitability. Numerous studies of individual pyrethroids have characterized effects on mammalian VGSC function and neuronal excitability, yet studies examining effects of complex pyrethroid mixtures in mammalian neurons, especially in environmentally relevant mixture ratios, are limited. In the present study, concentration-response functions were characterized for five pyrethroids (permethrin, deltamethrin, cypermethrin, β-cyfluthrin and esfenvalerate) in an in vitro preparation containing cortical neurons and glia. As a metric of neuronal network activity, spontaneous mean network firing rates (MFR) were measured using microelectorde arrays (MEAs). In addition, the effect of a complex and exposure relevant mixture of the five pyrethroids (containing 52% permethrin, 28.8% cypermethrin, 12.9% β-cyfluthrin, 3.4% deltamethrin and 2.7% esfenvalerate) was also measured. Data were modeled to determine whether effects of the pyrethroid mixture were predicted by dose-addition. At concentrations up to 10μM, all compounds except permethrin reduced MFR. Deltamethrin and β-cyfluthrin were the most potent and reduced MFR by as much as 60 and 50%, respectively, while cypermethrin and esfenvalerate were of approximately equal potency and reduced MFR by only ∼20% at the highest concentration. Permethrin caused small (∼24% maximum), concentration-dependent increases in MFR. Effects of the environmentally relevant mixture did not depart from the prediction of dose-addition. These data demonstrate that an environmentally relevant mixture caused dose-additive effects on spontaneous neuronal network activity in vitro, and is consistent with other in vitro and in vivo assessments of pyrethroid mixtures.
拟除虫菊酯类杀虫剂主要通过破坏电压门控钠通道(VGSC)功能来发挥其杀虫和毒理作用,从而导致神经元兴奋性改变。众多关于单一拟除虫菊酯的研究已对其对哺乳动物VGSC功能和神经元兴奋性的影响进行了表征,但研究复杂拟除虫菊酯混合物对哺乳动物神经元影响的研究,尤其是在与环境相关的混合比例下的研究却很有限。在本研究中,对含有皮质神经元和神经胶质细胞的体外制剂中的五种拟除虫菊酯(氯菊酯、溴氰菊酯、氯氰菊酯、高效氟氯氰菊酯和乙氰菊酯)的浓度 - 反应函数进行了表征。作为神经元网络活动的指标,使用微电极阵列(MEA)测量自发平均网络放电率(MFR)。此外,还测量了这五种拟除虫菊酯的一种复杂且与暴露相关的混合物(含有52%氯菊酯、28.8%氯氰菊酯、12.9%高效氟氯氰菊酯、3.4%溴氰菊酯和2.7%乙氰菊酯)的影响。对数据进行建模以确定拟除虫菊酯混合物的影响是否可通过剂量相加来预测。在浓度高达10μM时,除氯菊酯外的所有化合物均降低了MFR。溴氰菊酯和高效氟氯氰菊酯最为有效,分别使MFR降低多达60%和50%,而氯氰菊酯和乙氰菊酯效力大致相当,在最高浓度时仅使MFR降低约20%。氯菊酯导致MFR出现小幅度(最大约24%)的浓度依赖性增加。与环境相关的混合物的影响并未偏离剂量相加的预测。这些数据表明,与环境相关的混合物在体外对自发神经元网络活动产生剂量相加效应,并且与拟除虫菊酯混合物的其他体外和体内评估结果一致。