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Article Dans Une Revue Endocrinology Année : 2014

Vulnerability of the Neural Circuitry Underlying Sexual Behavior to Chronic Adult Exposure to Oral Bisphenol A in Male Mice

Marie Picot
Lydie Naule
Clarisse Marie-Luce
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Mariangela Martini
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Kalina Raskin
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Valerie Grange-Messent
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Isabelle Franceschini
Matthieu Keller

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There are human reproduction concerns associated with extensive use of bisphenol A (BPA)-containing plastic and, in particular, the leaching of BPA into food and beverages. In this context, it remains unclear whether and how exposure to BPA interferes with the developmental organization and adult activation of male sexual behavior by testosterone. We evaluated the developmental and adult exposure to oral BPA at doses equivalent to the no-observed-adverse-effect-level (5 mg/kg body weight per day) and tolerable daily intake (TDI) (50 mu g/kg body weight per day) on mouse sexual behavior and the potential mechanisms underlying BPA effects. Adult exposure to BPA reduced sexual motivation and performance at TDI dose only. Exposed males took longer to initiate mating and reach ejaculation despite normal olfactory chemoinvestigation. This deficiency was not restored by sexual experience and was associated with unchanged circulating levels of testosterone. By contrast, developmental exposure to BPA at TDI or no-observed-adverse-effect-level dose did not reduce sexual behavior or alter the neuroanatomical organization of the preoptic area. Disrupting the neural androgen receptor resulted in behavioral and neuroanatomical effects similar to those induced by adult exposure to TDI dose. Moreover, adult exposure of mutant males to BPA at TDI dose did not trigger additional alteration of sexual behavior, suggesting that BPA and neural androgen receptor mutation share acommonmechanism of action. This shows, for the first time, that the neural circuitry underlying male sexual behavior is vulnerable to chronic adult exposure to low dose of BPA and suggests that BPA could act in vivo as an antiandrogenic compound.
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hal-01542824 , version 1 (20-06-2017)

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Marie Picot, Lydie Naule, Clarisse Marie-Luce, Mariangela Martini, Kalina Raskin, et al.. Vulnerability of the Neural Circuitry Underlying Sexual Behavior to Chronic Adult Exposure to Oral Bisphenol A in Male Mice. Endocrinology, 2014, 155 (2), pp.502-512. ⟨10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.12.006⟩. ⟨hal-01542824⟩
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