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      Efectos de exposición aguda a cadmio en la acción de estrógenos en útero de rata impúber Translated title: Effects of acute exposure to cadmiun on response to estrogen in the prepuberal rat uterus

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          Antecedentes: Existe poca información sobre efectos del cadmio (Cd) en el útero. En mujeres altera la actividad miometrial, el ciclo menstrual y causa dismenorrea, abortos espontáneos, infertilidad y mortinatos. No existe información si la exposición prenatal o postnatal temprana causa efectos ginecológicos diferidos persistentes. Los tóxicos que afectan el útero suelen interactuar con receptores de estrógeno (E). Nuestro hallazgo de un segundo mecanismo de acción de E y de diferencias entre receptores de E de los diversos tipos celulares uterinos hacen posible que el Cd interactúe con los E en forma diferente en cada tipo celular. Objetivos: Buscar un posible efecto selectivo de la exposición aguda a Cd con algunas respuestas a E en útero de rata durante la edad prepuberal. Métodos: Ratas hembra impúberes recibieron 4 mg Cd/kg p.c. y 2 h después se trataron con 0,3 mg estradiol-17(3/kg p.c; los úteros fueron obtenidos bajo anestesia a las 24 h del tratamiento con E. Los úteros se procesaron para la cuantificación de respuestas a E en cada tipo celular por separado. Resultados: La exposición a Cd incrementa la eosinofilia uterina y edema endometrial inducidos por E; inhibe las siguientes respuestas a E: hipertrofia celular en miometrio circular, proliferación celular en epitelio luminal y miometrio. En ausencia de hormona, el cadmio causa una leve hipertrofia celular en miometrio circular. Conclusiones: La exposición aguda a Cd afecta de manera diferente las respuestas a E en los diversos tipos celulares uterinos de rata prepuberal. Futuros estudios deberán verificar si este efecto explica la infertilidad causada por exposición a Cd, afecta el desarrollo postpuberal de los órganos sexuales, e investigar si la exposición prenatal o postnatal temprana induce efectos diferidos persistentes, como puede ocurrir en población infantil prenatalmente expuesta a Cd

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          Background: Few information is available about uterine effects of Cadmium (Cd) exposure, where toxic agents affecting the female genital tract interact with estrogen (E) receptors, modifiying myometrial activity and the menstrual cycle, causing dysmenorrhea, infertility and spontaneous abortion. No information exists whether prenatal or early postnatal exposure may cause any gynecologic persistent adverse effect. Our finding of a second mechanism of E interaction and differences between E receptors in the various uterine cell types suggests that Cd may affect differently E interaction in each cell-type. Objective: Evalúate a possible selective effect of acute Cd exposure on E action in the uterus during prepuber age. Method: Female prepuber rats exposed to Cd 4 mg/kg and 2 hours later, treated with Estradiol-17² 0,3 mg/kg. A myometrial sample was obtained under anesthesia 24 hours after E treatment and histologically processed for the quantification of E responses on different uterine cell-types. Results: Cd exposure potentiates E-induced uterine eosinophilia and endometrial edema and inhibits E-induced cell hypertrophy in circular myometrium and cell proliferation in luminal myometrium. Cd, in the absence of hormone stimulation, causes a slight cell hypertrophy in circular myometrium. Conclusions: Acute exposure to Cd affects differently various responses to E in the different uterine cell-types. Future studies should verify whether this effect explains Cd-induced infertility, postpubertal sex organ development and whether prenatal or early postnatal exposure to Cd induces delayed persistent effects

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                Revista chilena de pediatría
                Rev. chil. pediatr.
                Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría (Santiago, , Chile )
                0370-4106
                August 2008
                : 79
                : 4
                : 373-380
                Affiliations
                [01] Santiago orgnameUniversidad de Chile orgdiv1Facultad de Medicina orgdiv2ICBM Chile
                Article
                S0370-41062008000400004 S0370-4106(08)07900404
                10.4067/S0370-41062008000400004
                8b015394-3f70-4567-91e1-3c1b4c29544c

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 12 November 2007
                : 23 April 2008
                : 17 March 2008
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                uterus,toxicidad,cadmio,útero,estrógeno,respuestas estrogénicas,rata impúber,Cadmium,toxicity,estrogen,estrogen responses,immature rat

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