Abstract
Biological actions of bisphenol A (BPA), an environmental chemical, have not been fully elucidated. We studied effect of BPA on nitric oxide (NO) synthesis in the murine endothelial cell line, MSS31. BPA (1–100 μM) increased nitrite/nitrate, a stable metabolites of NO, levels in culture medium of MSS31. However, Western blotting showed that the level of endothelial NO synthase protein was not increased by 16 h of treatment with BPA (10 μM). ICI 182,780 (10 μM), an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist, suppressed BPA-induced NO synthesis while actinomycin D (1 μg/ml), a transcription inhibitor, or cycloheximide (40 μM), a protein synthesis inhibitor, exhibited no effect on BPA-induced NO synthesis. These results indicate that BPA stimulates NO synthesis through a non-genomic ER-mediated mechanism. Short-term effects of BPA on NO synthesis were weak but similar to 17β-estradiol.
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