Cellular and molecular responses to ethyl-parathion in undifferentiated SH-SY5Y cells provide neurotoxicity pathway indicators for organophosphorus impacts.
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| Abstract |
High-fidelity nonanimal screening methods are needed that can rapidly and accurately characterize organophosphorus compound (OP)-induced neurotoxicity. Herein, the efficacy of human neuroblastoma cell line (SH-SY5Y) to provide molecular and cellular responses characteristic of the OP neurotoxicity pathway was investigated in response to the OP-model compound, ethyl-parathion. Undifferentiated SH-SY5Y cells were exposed to ethyl-parathion for 30 min at 0 (control), 0.5, 2.5, 5, 10, and 25 µg/ml. Dose-responsive reductions in cell viability were observed with significant reductions at ≥10 µg/ml. From these results, ethyl-parathion exposures of 0 (control), 5, and 10 µg/ml were selected to examine bioindicators underlying the OP neurotoxicity pathway including: reactive oxygen species (ROS), cell membrane peroxidation, mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP), and apoptosis. Ethyl-parathion elicited highly significant increases in ROS relative to controls (p < .01) at both exposure concentrations, confirmed using N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) as a ROS quencher which alleviated ROS increases. A response characteristic of increased ROS exposure, cell membrane-lipid peroxidation, significantly increased (p < .05) at the highest ethyl-parathion exposure (10 µg/ml). As a likely consequence of membrane-lipid peroxidation, ethyl-parathion-induced reductions in MMP were observed with significant effects at 10 µg/ml, reducing MMP by 58.2%. As a culmination of these cellular-damage indicators, apoptosis progression was investigated by phosphatidylserine translocation where ethyl-parathion-induced dose-responsive, highly significant (p < .01) increases at both 5 and 10 µg/ml. Overall, the mechanistic responses observed in undifferentiated SH-SY5Y cells corresponded with in vivo mammalian results demonstrating potential for this nonanimal model to provide accurate OP neurotoxicology screening.
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| Authors | Saroj K Amar, Keri B Donohue, Kurt A Gust |
| Journal | Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology (Toxicol Sci) Vol. 191 Issue 2 Pg. 285-295 (02 17 2023) ISSN: 1096-0929 [Electronic] United States |
| PMID | 36458919 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.) |
| Copyright | © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Toxicology. |
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