15 results on '"Marlatt, V."'
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2. Innovation in regulatory approaches for endocrine disrupting chemicals: The journey to risk assessment modernization in Canada
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Barton-Maclaren, T.S., primary, Wade, M., additional, Basu, N., additional, Bayen, S., additional, Grundy, J., additional, Marlatt, V., additional, Moore, R., additional, Parent, L., additional, Parrott, J., additional, Grigorova, P., additional, Pinsonnault-Cooper, J., additional, and Langlois, V.S., additional
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- 2022
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3. Estradiol and triiodothyronine differentially modulate reproductive and thyroidal genes in male goldfish
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Marlatt, V. L., Gerrie, E., Wiens, S., Jackson, F., Moon, T. W., and Trudeau, V. L.
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- 2012
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4. Estradiol and triiodothyronine differentially modulate reproductive and thyroidal genes in male goldfish
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Marlatt, V. L., primary, Gerrie, E., additional, Wiens, S., additional, Jackson, F., additional, Moon, T. W., additional, and Trudeau, V. L., additional
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- 2011
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5. Contaminant biomonitoring augmented with a qPCR array indicates hepatic mRNA gene expression effects in wild-collected seabird embryos.
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King MD, Su G, Crump D, Farhat A, Marlatt V, Lee SL, Williams TD, and Elliott JE
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- Animals, Biological Monitoring, RNA, Messenger metabolism, Birds metabolism, Liver chemistry, Gene Expression, Environmental Monitoring, Polychlorinated Biphenyls analysis, Charadriiformes metabolism, Mercury analysis
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Birds can bioaccumulate persistent contaminants, and maternal transfer to eggs may expose embryos to concentrations sufficient to cause adverse effects during sensitive early-life stages. However, using tissue residue concentrations alone to infer whether contaminant effects are occurring suffers from uncertainty, and efficient, sensitive biomarkers remain limited in wildlife. We studied relationships between whole embryo contaminant concentrations (total mercury, organochlorine pesticides, perfluoroalkyl substances, polychlorinated biphenyls, and halogenated flame retardants) together with mRNA expression in embryonic liver tissue from a Pacific Ocean seabird, the rhinoceros auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata). Fresh eggs were collected, incubated under controlled conditions, and from the pre-hatch embryo, hepatic RNA was extracted for qPCR array analysis to measure gene expression (2
-∆Cq ), while the remaining embryo was analyzed for contaminant residues. Contaminant and gene expression data were assessed with a combination of multivariate approaches and linear models. Results indicated correlations between embryonic total mercury and several genes such as sepp1, which encodes selenoprotein P. Correlation between the biotransformation gene cyp1a4 and the C7 perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acid PFHpA was also evident. This study demonstrates that egg collection from free-living populations for contaminant biomonitoring programs can relate chemical residues to in ovo mRNA gene expression effects in embryo hepatic tissue., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Crown Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)- Published
- 2023
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6. Risks of mining to salmonid-bearing watersheds.
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Sergeant CJ, Sexton EK, Moore JW, Westwood AR, Nagorski SA, Ebersole JL, Chambers DM, O'Neal SL, Malison RL, Hauer FR, Whited DC, Weitz J, Caldwell J, Capito M, Connor M, Frissell CA, Knox G, Lowery ED, Macnair R, Marlatt V, McIntyre JK, McPhee MV, and Skuce N
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Mining provides resources for people but can pose risks to ecosystems that support cultural keystone species. Our synthesis reviews relevant aspects of mining operations, describes the ecology of salmonid-bearing watersheds in northwestern North America, and compiles the impacts of metal and coal extraction on salmonids and their habitat. We conservatively estimate that this region encompasses nearly 4000 past producing mines, with present-day operations ranging from small placer sites to massive open-pit projects that annually mine more than 118 million metric tons of earth. Despite impact assessments that are intended to evaluate risk and inform mitigation, mines continue to harm salmonid-bearing watersheds via pathways such as toxic contaminants, stream channel burial, and flow regime alteration. To better maintain watershed processes that benefit salmonids, we highlight key windows during the mining governance life cycle for science to guide policy by more accurately accounting for stressor complexity, cumulative effects, and future environmental change.
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- 2022
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7. Impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction in wildlife and humans.
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Marlatt VL, Bayen S, Castaneda-Cortès D, Delbès G, Grigorova P, Langlois VS, Martyniuk CJ, Metcalfe CD, Parent L, Rwigemera A, Thomson P, and Van Der Kraak G
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- Animals, Animals, Wild, Endocrine System, Humans, Mammals, Reproduction, Retrospective Studies, Endocrine Disruptors toxicity
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are ubiquitous in aquatic and terrestrial environments. The main objective of this review was to summarize the current knowledge of the impacts of EDCs on reproductive success in wildlife and humans. The examples selected often include a retrospective assessment of the knowledge of reproductive impacts over time to discern how the effects of EDCs have changed over the last several decades. Collectively, the evidence summarized here within reinforce the concept that reproduction in wildlife and humans is negatively impacted by anthropogenic chemicals, with several altering endocrine system function. These observations of chemicals interfering with different aspects of the reproductive endocrine axis are particularly pronounced for aquatic species and are often corroborated by laboratory-based experiments (i.e. fish, amphibians, birds). Noteworthy, many of these same indicators are also observed in epidemiological studies in mammalian wildlife and humans. Given the vast array of reproductive strategies used by animals, it is perhaps not surprising that no single disrupted target is predictive of reproductive effects. Nevertheless, there are some general features of the endocrine control of reproduction, and in particular, the critical role that steroid hormones play in these processes that confer a high degree of susceptibility to environmental chemicals. New research is needed on the implications of chemical exposures during development and the potential for long-term reproductive effects. Future emphasis on field-based observations that can form the basis of more deliberate, extensive, and long-term population level studies to monitor contaminant effects, including adverse effects on the endocrine system, are key to addressing these knowledge gaps., (Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2022
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8. Towards regulation of Endocrine Disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in water resources using bioassays - A guide to developing a testing strategy.
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Robitaille J, Denslow ND, Escher BI, Kurita-Oyamada HG, Marlatt V, Martyniuk CJ, Navarro-Martín L, Prosser R, Sanderson T, Yargeau V, and Langlois VS
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- Animals, Biological Assay, Estrogens, Mammals, Water Resources, Endocrine Disruptors toxicity, Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical toxicity
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are found in every environmental medium and are chemically diverse. Their presence in water resources can negatively impact the health of both human and wildlife. Currently, there are no mandatory screening mandates or regulations for EDC levels in complex water samples globally. Bioassays, which allow quantifying in vivo or in vitro biological effects of chemicals are used commonly to assess acute toxicity in water. The existing OECD framework to identify single-compound EDCs offers a set of bioassays that are validated for the Estrogen-, Androgen-, and Thyroid hormones, and for Steroidogenesis pathways (EATS). In this review, we discussed bioassays that could be potentially used to screen EDCs in water resources, including in vivo and in vitro bioassays using invertebrates, fish, amphibians, and/or mammalians species. Strengths and weaknesses of samples preparation for complex water samples are discussed. We also review how to calculate the Effect-Based Trigger values, which could serve as thresholds to determine if a given water sample poses a risk based on existing quality standards. This work aims to assist governments and regulatory agencies in developing a testing strategy towards regulation of EDCs in water resources worldwide. The main recommendations include 1) opting for internationally validated cell reporter in vitro bioassays to reduce animal use & cost; 2) testing for cell viability (a critical parameter) when using in vitro bioassays; and 3) evaluating the recovery of the water sample preparation method selected. This review also highlights future research avenues for the EDC screening revolution (e.g., 3D tissue culture, transgenic animals, OMICs, and Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs))., (Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2022
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9. Effects of Avian Eggshell Oiling With Diluted Bitumen Show Sublethal Embryonic Polycyclic Aromatic Compound Exposure.
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King MD, Elliott JE, Marlatt V, Crump D, Idowu I, Wallace SJ, Tomy GT, and Williams TD
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- Animals, Birds, Canada, Egg Shell chemistry, Hydrocarbons toxicity, Oil and Gas Fields, Petroleum analysis, Petroleum toxicity, Petroleum Pollution analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical toxicity
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Breeding birds that become oiled may contaminate the shells of their eggs, and studies of conventional crude oil suggest that even small quantities can be absorbed through the eggshell and cause embryotoxicity. Unconventional crude oils remain untested, so we evaluated whether a major Canadian oil sands product, diluted bitumen (dilbit), would be absorbed and cause toxicity when applied to eggshells of two species, domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) and double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum). We artificially incubated eggs and applied lightly weathered dilbit (Cold Lake blend) to the eggshells (0.015-0.15 mg g
-1 egg in chicken; 0.1-0.4 mg g-1 egg in cormorant) at various points during incubation before sampling prehatch embryos. Polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) residue in cormorant embryos was elevated only at the highest dilbit application (0.4 mg g-1 egg) closest (day 16) to sampling on day 22. In contrast, cormorant liver cytochrome P450 1a4 (Cyp1a4) mRNA expression (quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay) was elevated only in embryos treated with the earliest and lowest dilbit application (0.1 mg g-1 egg on day 4). These results confirm that dilbit can cross through the eggshell and be absorbed by embryos, and they imply rapid biotransformation of PACs and a nonmonotonic Cyp1a4 response. Despite evidence of exposure in cormorant, we found no detectable effects on the frequency of survival, deformity, and gross lesions, nor did we find effects on physiological endpoints indicative of growth and cardiovascular function in either chicken or cormorant. In ovo dilbit exposure may be less toxic than well-studied conventional crude oils. The effects of an oil spill scenario involving dilbit to bird embryos might be subtle, and PACs may be rapidly metabolized. Environ Toxicol Chem 2022;41:159-174. © 2021 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC., (© 2021 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC.)- Published
- 2022
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10. Canada's mines pose transboundary risks.
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Sexton EK, Sergeant CJ, Moore JW, Westwood AR, Chambers DM, McPhee MV, Nagorski SA, O'Neal SL, Weitz J, Berchtold A, Capito M, Frissell CA, Hamblen J, Hauer FR, Jones LA, Knox G, Macnair R, Malison RL, Marlatt V, McIntyre J, Skuce N, and Whited DC
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- 2020
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11. Interaction of Galaxolide® with the human and trout estrogen receptor-α.
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Simmons DB, Marlatt VL, Trudeau VL, Sherry JP, and Metcalfe CD
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- Animals, Biological Assay, Female, Humans, Vitellogenins blood, Water Pollutants, Chemical toxicity, Benzopyrans toxicity, Estrogen Receptor alpha blood, Estrogens toxicity, Oncorhynchus mykiss blood, Perfume toxicity
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Synthetic musks have been detected in sewage effluents, surface waters, and fish tissues where the polycyclic musk compound, HHCB (Galaxolide®) is the dominant compound in those matrices. In the present study, the Galaxolide® formulation was tested in the yeast estrogenicity screening (YES) assay, and also tested in in vitro and in vivo teleost systems to determine whether it interacts with the estrogen receptor as either an agonist or antagonist. In those tests, Galaxolide® did not act as an estrogen agonist, however there was strong evidence of antagonistic activity as Galaxolide® inhibited the estrogenic activity of 17β-estradiol (E2). In the YES assay based on a recombinant strain of yeast containing the human estrogen receptor (i.e. hERα), Galaxolide® inhibited the effects of E2 in a dose-dependent manner (IC50=1.63×10(-5)M). In a luciferase reporter gene assay based on the rainbow trout estrogen receptor (i.e. rtER) transfected into a rainbow trout gonadal (RTG-2) cell line, the IC50 for the antagonistic effect of Galaxolide® was 2.79×10(-9)M. In an in vivo assay based on modulation of vitellogenin in rainbow trout, Galaxolide® i.p. injected into trout at a dose of 3.64mg/kg caused inhibition of E2-induced vitellogenin production. That dose is within the range of concentrations of Galaxolide® that have been detected in tissues of fish from contaminated locations., (Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2010
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12. Auto-regulation of estrogen receptor subtypes and gene expression profiling of 17beta-estradiol action in the neuroendocrine axis of male goldfish.
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Marlatt VL, Martyniuk CJ, Zhang D, Xiong H, Watt J, Xia X, Moon T, and Trudeau VL
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- Animals, Dimethylpolysiloxanes, Estradiol blood, Estrogen Receptor alpha metabolism, Estrogen Receptor beta metabolism, Fluorescent Dyes, Hypothalamus metabolism, Male, Neurosecretory Systems drug effects, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Prostheses and Implants, Radioimmunoassay, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Silicones, Estradiol pharmacology, Estrogen Receptor alpha genetics, Estrogen Receptor beta genetics, Gene Expression Profiling, Gene Expression Regulation drug effects, Goldfish genetics, Neurosecretory Systems metabolism
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Auto-regulation of the three goldfish estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes was examined simultaneously in multiple tissues, in relation to mRNA levels of liver vitellogenin (VTG) and brain transcripts. Male goldfish were implanted with a silastic implant containing either no steroid or 17beta-estradiol (E2) (100 microg/g body mass) for one and seven days. Liver transcript levels of ERalpha were the most highly up-regulated of the ERs, and a parallel induction of liver VTG was observed. In the testes (7d) and telencephalon (7d), E2 induced ERalpha. In the liver (1d) and hypothalamus (7d) ERbeta1 was down-regulated, while ERbeta2 remained unchanged under all conditions. Although aromatase B levels increased in the brain, the majority of candidate genes identified by microarray in the hypothalamus (1d) decreased. These results demonstrate that ER subtypes are differentially regulated by E2, and several brain transcripts decrease upon short-term elevation of circulating E2 levels.
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- 2008
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13. Accumulation of ligands for aryl hydrocarbon and sex steroid receptors in fish exposed to treated effluent from a bleached sulfite/groundwood pulp and paper mill.
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Hewitt LM, Pryce AC, Parrott JL, Marlatt V, Wood C, Oakes K, and Van Der Kraak GJ
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- Animals, Biological Availability, Cypriniformes growth & development, Environmental Monitoring, Gonadal Steroid Hormones, Industrial Waste, Ligands, Liver chemistry, Male, New Brunswick, Paper, Solubility, Tissue Distribution, Cypriniformes physiology, Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon physiology, Receptors, Steroid physiology, Waste Disposal, Fluid, Water Pollutants, Chemical poisoning
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The accumulation of ligands for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and fish sex steroid receptors was investigated using two separate controlled fish exposures to final effluent from a bleached sulfite/groundwood mill in New Brunswick, Canada. In the first experiment, hepatic tissue extracts from exposed fish were fractionated according to lipophilicity. Fractions with different octanol-water (Kow) partition coefficients were tested for the presence of bioavailable chemicals that function as ligands for the AhR in H4IIE cells, rainbow trout hepatic estrogen receptors (ER), goldfish testicular androgen receptors (AR), and goldfish sex steroid binding protein (SSBP). Fish accumulated ligands for each receptor after 4-d exposure to effluent. Single fractions contained ligands for the AhR and the ER, while multiple fractions competed for the AR and SSBP. Fish also accumulated ligands for the AhR and SSBP from Saint John River dilution water, indicating upstream sources of bioactive substances. Semipermeable-membrane devices deployed concurrently with fish accumulated ligands from effluent for all receptors except the ER. In the second experiment, accumulated ligands were evaluated after exposure of fish to effluent for two different durations and following a depuration period. Hepatic mixed function oxygenase activity and whole-liver hormonal activity, measured as binding to SSBP, returned to background following 6 d depuration and were reduced but still significant after 12-d exposure to effluent. Whole-liver extract affinities for the AR were maintained after extended exposure and depuration, indicating the potential for AR ligands to bioaccumulate. The accumulation of AhR ligands and ligands for sex steroid receptors provides a mechanistic linkage to effects on growth, development, and performance of fish exposed to effluent from this and other mills.
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- 2003
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14. The microbial dehydrogenation of some pregnanes and allopregnanes to 1.4-pregnadienes.
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STOUDT TH, McALEER WJ, KOZLOWSKI MA, and MARLATT V
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- Progesterone analogs & derivatives, Fungi metabolism, Pregnadienes, Pregnanes
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- 1958
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15. The microbial 1-dehydrogenation of some delta4-3 ketosteroids.
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STOUDT TH, MCALEER WJ, CHEMERDA JM, KOZLOWSKI MA, HIRSCHMANN RF, MARLATT V, and MILLER R
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- Animals, Bacillus, Biochemical Phenomena, Insecta, Ketosteroids, Lipid Metabolism, Steroids metabolism
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- 1955
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