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Toxic Effects of Fungicide Tebuconazole on the Early Development of African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis

진균제 농약 tebuconazole이 Xenopus laevis의 초기 배 발생에 미치는 독성 영향

  • Hwang, Yong-Gi (Department of Biology, Changwon National University) ;
  • Lee, Mi-Ju (Department of Biology, Changwon National University) ;
  • Lee, You-Hwa (Department of Biology, Changwon National University) ;
  • Cheong, Seon-Woo (Department of Biology, Changwon National University) ;
  • Yoon, Chun-Sik (Department of Biology, Changwon National University)
  • Received : 2010.04.30
  • Accepted : 2010.07.14
  • Published : 2010.08.31
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Abstract

We investigated the toxic effects of tebuconazole on development in the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. To test the toxic effects, frog embryo teratogenesis assays using Xenopus were performed. Embryos were exposed to various concentrations of tebuconazole($0-100\;{\mu}M$). $LC_{100}$ for tebuconazole was $100\;{\mu}M$, and the $LC_{50}$ determined by probit analysis was $82.35\;{\mu}M$. The exposure to tebuconazole concentrations ${\geq}40\;{\mu}M$ resulted in 11 different types of severe external malformations including gut dysplasia. Histological examinations revealed various dysplasia in the eye, heart, liver, intestine, somatic muscle, and in the pronephric ducts. The tissue-specific toxic effects were investigated with an animal cap assay. Blood cells are generally induced at a high frequency by the combination of mSCF and activin A, however, the induction of blood cells was strongly inhibited by the addition of tebuconazole. Electron micrographs of tested embryos showed many of multivesicular bodies and dysplasia of photo-receptive cell, however, the somatic muscle degeneration was not severe. The gene expression of cultivated animal cap explants was investigated by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and revealed that expression of the blood-specific marker, $\beta$ globin II and muscle-specific marker, muscle actin were more strongly inhibited than the neural-specific marker, XEn2.

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