Impact of progressively cumulative exposure of AgNPs on earthworms (Eisenia fetida) and implication for eco-toxicological risk assessment

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Hazardous pollutants released into the real environment mostly own long-lasting cumulative characteristics and have progressively negative impacts on organisms, which are always neglected in laboratory toxicological tests. Here in this study, the different ecotoxicity of Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) on earthworm Eisenia fetida was compared via various endpoints and transcriptional sequencing between the 28-day progressively repeated (from 60 to 80, final 100 mg/kg) and one-step (directly to 100 mg/kg) exposure. The results showed that earthworms under progressively repeated exposure showed significantly less biomass loss and reproductive inhibition, as well as lower Ag bioaccumulation (15.6 mg/kg) compared with one-step exposure (17.9 mg/kg). The increases in enzyme activities (superoxide enzyme and catalase) and gene expression (metallothionein) also implied higher antioxidant and genetic toxicity in one-step exposed earthworms compared with those from progressively repeated exposure. Furthermore, the transcriptomic analysis identified 582 and 854 differentially expressed genes in the treatments of one-step and repeated exposure respectively compared with the control group. The results of pathway annotation and classification suggested similar enrichments of damage induction but different in toxic stress responses, whereas earthworms from repeated exposure possessed more detoxification-related pathways like translation and multicellular organismal processes. This study innovatively took into account the impacts of processive exposure occurring in the real environment and elucidated distinctions of toxicity and adaptation caused by different exposure patterns, which provided the theoretical basis for real risk identification under the framework and guidance of traditional toxicology, also the implication for the improvement of eco-toxicological risk assessment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:322

Enthalten in:

Chemosphere - 322(2023) vom: 13. Mai, Seite 138163

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Caide [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Xu [VerfasserIn]
Yue, Shizhong [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Li [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Kun [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Wenhao [VerfasserIn]
Qiao, Yuhui [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3M4G523W1G
Antioxidants
Detoxification
EC 1.15.1.1
Earthworms
Journal Article
Risk assessment
Silver
Soil
Soil Pollutants
Superoxide Dismutase
Toxicity
Transcriptome

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Date Completed 13.03.2023

Date Revised 13.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138163

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353106569