PMID- 14754568 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040506 LR - 20181113 IS - 0091-6765 (Print) IS - 0091-6765 (Linking) VI - 112 IP - 2 DP - 2004 Feb TI - Developmental exposure to chlorpyrifos elicits sex-selective alterations of serotonergic synaptic function in adulthood: critical periods and regional selectivity for effects on the serotonin transporter, receptor subtypes, and cell signaling. PG - 148-55 AB - During brain development, serotonin (5HT) provides essential neurotrophic signals, and in earlier work, we found that developmental exposure to chlorpyrifos (CPF) elicits short-term changes in 5HT systems. In the present study, we evaluated the effects in adulthood after CPF exposures from the neural tube stage [gestational days (GD) 9-12] and the late gestational period (GD17-20) through postnatal neuronal differentiation and synaptogenesis [postnatal days (PN) 1-4 and 11-14], using treatments below the threshold for systemic toxicity. With exposure on GD9-12, CPF elicited global elevations in 5HT1A and 5HT2 receptors and in the 5HT presynaptic transporter. The GD17-20 treatment elicited larger effects that displayed selectivity for regions with 5HT nerve terminals and that were preferential for males. Although similar receptor up-regulation was seen after PN1-4 exposure, the effects were larger in regions with 5HT cell bodies; in addition, the presynaptic transporter was down-regulated in the nerve terminal zones of females. The PN11-14 exposure had much smaller effects on receptors but still elicited transporter suppression with the same regional and sex selectivity. Although CPF exposure on GD17-20, PN1-4, or PN11-14 altered the ability of 5HT to modulate adenylyl cyclase, this change did not correspond with the effects on 5HT receptors, suggesting an additional set of effects on proteins that transduce the 5HT signal. Our results indicate that CPF elicits long-lasting changes in 5HT receptors, the presynaptic 5HT transporter, and 5HT-mediated signal transduction after exposure in discrete developmental windows that range from the neural tube stage through synaptogenesis. These effects are likely to contribute to neurobehavioral teratology of CPF. FAU - Aldridge, Justin E AU - Aldridge JE AD - Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. FAU - Seidler, Frederic J AU - Seidler FJ FAU - Slotkin, Theodore A AU - Slotkin TA LA - eng GR - ES10356/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - ES10387/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - Environ Health Perspect JT - Environmental health perspectives JID - 0330411 RN - 0 (Carrier Proteins) RN - 0 (Insecticides) RN - 0 (Membrane Glycoproteins) RN - 0 (Membrane Transport Proteins) RN - 0 (Nerve Tissue Proteins) RN - 0 (Receptors, Serotonin) RN - 0 (Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins) RN - 0 (Slc6a4 protein, rat) RN - JCS58I644W (Chlorpyrifos) SB - IM CIN - Environ Health Perspect. 2004 Feb;112(2):A112-3. PMID: 14959713 MH - Animals MH - Carrier Proteins/metabolism/pharmacology MH - Cell Differentiation MH - Central Nervous System/drug effects/*embryology MH - Chlorpyrifos/*toxicity MH - Female MH - Insecticides/*toxicity MH - Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism/pharmacology MH - *Membrane Transport Proteins MH - *Nerve Tissue Proteins MH - Pregnancy MH - *Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Receptors, Serotonin/*drug effects/*physiology MH - Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins MH - Signal Transduction/*drug effects MH - Synapses PMC - PMC1241823 EDAT- 2004/02/03 05:00 MHDA- 2004/05/07 05:00 PMCR- 2004/02/01 CRDT- 2004/02/03 05:00 PHST- 2004/02/03 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/05/07 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/02/03 05:00 [entrez] PHST- 2004/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1289/ehp.6713 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Health Perspect. 2004 Feb;112(2):148-55. doi: 10.1289/ehp.6713.