A common surfactant used in food packaging found to be toxic for reproduction in mammals
| Autor: | Estefania Garcia-Calvo, R. Ausejo, Cristina Nerín, Elena Canellas, Joaquín Miguel, Carmen Cámara, Noelia Mendoza, Paula Vera, Jose L. Luque-Garcia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Male Swine medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject Fertility Toxicology 03 medical and health sciences Surface-Active Agents Human fertilization Pulmonary surfactant medicine Animals Food science Acrosome Sperm motility media_common Mammals Sperm-Ovum Interactions Chemistry Artificial insemination Food Packaging General Medicine Sperm Spermatozoa Food packaging 030104 developmental biology Sperm Motility Female Fatty Alcohols Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association. 113 |
| ISSN: | 1873-6351 |
| Popis: | Migration from a multilayer plastic material intended for food contact showed that 2,4,7,9-tetramethyl-5-decyne-4,7-diol mixture (surfynol), used as a surfactant in the adhesive employed to build the multilayer, was transferred to water and other food simulants in contact with the plastic. When these multilayer plastics were used for containing seminal doses for artificial insemination, it was found that fertility was seriously damaged in terms of motility, acrosome integrity, mitochondrial activity and penetration capacity in the cells, thus affecting male fertility. Quantitative proteomic analysis of exposed germinal cells demonstrated the inhibition of key proteins involved in the fertilization capacity by affecting the cytoskeleton, sperm motility, the energy machinery and sperm defense mechanisms against oxidation, therefore confirming the surfactant-induced male infertility. These results open up new and interesting perspectives for the study of reprotoxicity caused by different chemicals common in our daily lives. Significance This paper demonstrates the toxicity for reproduction of a common surfactant used in food packaging and the scientific reasons why the sperm loses reproductive capacity in presence of this chemical. So, the surfactant affects the male fertility. The surfactant is present in many adhesives used either for building multilayer materials or to glue paper and plastic in food packaging. This is the first time that reprotoxicity is demonstrated for this compound. According to the theoretical approach Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC) the compound is highly toxic but experimental data did not exist so far. The study described in this paper and the results obtained open a door to further research in which male infertility caused by chemicals could be demonstrated. |
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