Prioritization of 10 organic flame retardants using an avian hepatocyte toxicogenomic assay

Pagé‐Larivière F, Chiu S, Jones S P, et al

Environmental toxicology and chemistry, 2018, 37(12): 3134-3144

As the number of chemicals developed and used by industry increases, the inherent limitations of traditional toxicology approaches become an unavoidable issue. To help meet the demand for toxicity evaluation, new methods, such as high‐throughput toxicity screening, are currently being developed to permit rapid determination of toxic, molecular, and/or biochemical effects of a wide range of chemicals. In the present study, we demonstrate the utility of an avian in vitro toxicogenomics screening approach to determine the cytotoxic and transcriptomic effects of 10 organic flame retardants (OFRs) currently of international priority for ecological risk evaluation to prioritize and inform future toxicological studies. Hepatocytes from 2 avian species, chicken and double‐crested cormorant, were prepared and exposed for 24 h to various concentrations (0–300 μM) of the following 10 OFRs: Chemical Abstracts Service registration numbers 29761‐21‐5, 56803‐37‐3 (p‐tert‐butylphenyl diphenyl phosphate [BPDP]), 65652‐41‐7, 68937‐41‐7 (phenol, isopropylated, phosphate [3:1] [IPPP]), 95906‐11‐9, 19186‐97‐1, 26040‐51‐7, 35948‐25‐5, 21850‐44‐2, and 25713‐60‐4. Cell viability, the 7‐ethoxyresorufin‐O‐deethylase assay, and transcriptomic analysis using species‐specific ToxChip polymerase chain reaction arrays were performed to evaluate the in vitro effect of these OFRs. Of the 10 OFRs assessed, BPDP and IPPP elicited the strongest cytotoxic and transcriptomic responses in both chicken and double‐crested cormorant hepatocytes and are therefore recommended as priority candidates for further wildlife toxicological investigations.

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