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Endocrine-Disrupting Activity of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Adverse Health Outcomes After Prenatal Exposure in Male Mice

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Endocrinology, October 2015
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Title
Endocrine-Disrupting Activity of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Adverse Health Outcomes After Prenatal Exposure in Male Mice
Published in
Molecular Endocrinology, October 2015
DOI 10.1210/en.2015-1375
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Authors

Christopher D Kassotis, Kara C Klemp, Danh C Vu, Chung-Ho Lin, Chun-Xia Meng, Cynthia L Besch-Williford, Lisa Pinatti, R Thomas Zoeller, Erma Z Drobnis, Victoria D Balise, Chiamaka J Isiguzo, Michelle A Williams, Donald E Tillitt, Susan C Nagel

Abstract

Oil and natural gas operations have been shown to contaminate surface and ground water with endocrine-disrupting chemicals. In the current study, we fill several gaps in our understanding of the potential environmental impacts related to this process. We measured the endocrine-disrupting activities of 24 chemicals used and/or produced by oil and gas operations for five nuclear receptors using a reporter gene assay in human endometrial cancer cells. We also quantified the concentration of 16 of these chemicals in oil and gas wastewater samples. Finally, we assessed reproductive and developmental outcomes in male C57BL/6J mice after the prenatal exposure to a mixture of these chemicals. We found that 23 commonly used oil and natural gas operation chemicals can activate or inhibit the estrogen, androgen, glucocorticoid, progesterone, and/or thyroid receptors, and mixtures of these chemicals can behave synergistically, additively, or antagonistically in vitro. Prenatal exposure to a mixture of 23 oil and gas operation chemicals at 3, 30, and 300 μ g/kg · d caused decreased sperm counts and increased testes, body, heart, and thymus weights and increased serum T in male mice, suggesting multiple organ system impacts. Our results suggest possible adverse developmental and reproductive health outcomes in humans and animals exposed to potential environmentally relevant levels of oil and gas operation chemicals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Unknown 98 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 16%
Student > Master 14 14%
Student > Bachelor 14 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 12%
Other 9 9%
Other 17 17%
Unknown 18 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 17 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Chemistry 6 6%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 27 27%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 135. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 August 2023.
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