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. 2020 Feb 24;19:23. doi: 10.1186/s12940-020-00578-x

Table 2.

Summary of the main effects induced by single chemicals administered at IC20, IC5 and IC20/100. In bracket, the lowest concentration eliciting a statistically significant modification of at least one of the measured DNT features is indicated (Phase 2)

3 days BPA CPF Lead Methyl-Hg PCB138 VA
Synaptogenesis (SYP, PSD95) ⇓ PSD95t (IC20) ⇑ SYPt (IC20) ⇓ PSD95n (IC20/100) ⇑ PSD95n (IC20)
Neurite outgrowth

⇔⇑ n. neurites

(IC5)

⇓ ⇔ ⇑ (IC20/100)

⇑ n. neurites (not shown)

(IC5)

BDNF levels ⇑ BDNFt (IC20)

⇑ ratio (IC20/100)

14 days BPA CPF Lead Methyl-Hg PCB138 VA
Synaptogenesis (SYP, PSD95) ⇓ PSD95n (IC5)

⇓ SYPn

⇑ PSD95t (IC5)

⇑ SYPt

⇓ PSD95n (IC20/100)

⇓ SYPn

(IC5)

Neurite outgrowth

⇓ n. branch points

(IC5)

⇓ ⇔

⇓ n. branch points

(IC20)

BDNF levels

⇓ ratio (IC5)

⇑ BDNFt (IC20)

⇓ ratio (IC20)

⇓ ratio (IC20) ⇑ (IC5) ⇑ BDNFn and ratio (IC20)

Tested concentrations: BPA (0.29 μM, IC20/100; 12.74 μM, IC5; 28.96 μM, IC20); CPF (0.37 μM, IC20/100; 21.01 μM, IC5; 37.10 μM, IC20); Lead (0.0073 μM, IC20/100; 0.17 μM, IC5; 0.73 μM, IC20); Methyl-Hg (0.0013 μM, IC20/100; 0.05 μM, IC5; 0.13 μM, IC20); PCB138 (0.0593 μM, IC20/100; 3.53 μM, IC5; 5.93 μM, IC20); VA (2.1 μM, IC20/100; 70 μM, IC5; 210 μM, IC20)