Oral Exposure to 1,4-Dioxane Induces Hepatic Inflammation in Mice: The Potential Promoting Effect of the Gut Microbiome

Environmental Science & Technology
Qing ZhouXiaowei Zhang

Abstract

1,4-Dioxane is a widely used industrial solvent that has been frequently detected in aquatic environments. However, the hepatotoxicity of long-term dioxane exposure at environmentally relevant concentrations and underlying mechanisms of liver damage remain unclear. In this study, male mice were exposed to dioxane at concentrations of 0.5, 5, 50, and 500 ppm for 12 weeks, followed by histopathological examination of liver sections and multiomics investigation of the hepatic transcriptome, serum metabolome, and gut microbiome. Results showed that dioxane exposure at environmentally relevant concentrations induced hepatic inflammation and caused changes in the hepatic transcriptome and serum metabolic profiles. However, no inflammatory response was observed after in vitro exposure to all concentrations of dioxane and its in vivo metabolites. The gut microbiome was considered to be contributing to this apparently contradictory response. Increased levels of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) may be produced by some gut microbiota, such as Porphyromonadaceae and Helicobacteraceae, after in vivo 500 ppm of dioxane exposure. LPS may enter the blood circulation through an impaired intestinal wall and aggravate hepatic inflammation in mice. This s...Continue Reading

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