First insights into serum metabolomics of trenbolone/estradiol implanted bovines; screening model to predict hormone-treated and control animals’ status

International audienceThe use of anabolic agents in livestock production is a subject of much concern. Although prohibited for more than 20&nbsp;years within the EU, growth promoting practices are still widely suspected. To meet the current challenges for detecting illicit practices, ‘omics’ strategies have recently been demonstrated as important new investigative tools. These investigations, based on the observation of physiological disturbances, mainly in urine, demonstrated the possibility to monitor biomarkers enabling high throughput determination of animal status in terms of hormonal treatment. In this context, serum was investigated for the first time as an alternative and potential complementary sample type. A metabolomic approach based on liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry, was exploited in order to, highlight metabolic perturbations in serum of Revalor-XS® (trenbolone acetate/estradiol) implanted bovines. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses were carried out to establish descriptive and predictive models. These models enabled the discrimination of anabolised from control animals, and highlighted a number of metabolites which contributed the most in the observed discrimination. Further, a screening model combining a set of selected markers intensities was generated and it successfuly classified animals according to their status, up to 4&nbsp;weeks post Revalor-XS® implant. This research indicates, for the first time, that serum metabolomics has an important role in screening to detect for anabolic misuse in bovines.</p

Effect of oral exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on goat's milk contamination

The impact of chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on milk contamination was evaluated by oral administration of a mixture of fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, chrysene, benzo(k)fluorene, benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(g,h,i)perylene at 0.02 mg/kg to lactating goats for 28 days. We analysed PAHs and their major metabolites in milk by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results evidence several major points: (1) benzo(k)fluorene, benzo(a)pyrene and benzo(g,h,i)perylene were not detected in the milk; (2) unexpectedly, the concentration of fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene and chrysene did not change with time; (3) monohydroxylated PAH metabolites (-OH), namely 2-OH-fluorene, 3-OH-phenanthrene and 1-OH-pyrene were detected shortly after administration. The concentrations of 2-OH-fluorene and 3-OH-phenanthrene reached, respectively, maxima of 0.41 and 0.22 ng/mL during the first exposure week, whereas the concentration of 1-OH pyrene increased to reach a maximum of 0.97 ng/mL on day 14, then slightly decreased during the last two exposure weeks. Those findings suggest a lack of activation of a metabolism that could lead to an excretion of PAHs into milk under native forms. However, a slight increase in concentration could induce the metabolism, which should lead to an increase in the excretion of metabolites into the milk. In spite of the absence of a significant transfer of parent PAHs to milk, the appearance of metabolites in milk raises questions of their impact on human health

Stratégie de mesure non ciblée de type métabolomique (couplage LC-HRMS ) pour identifier différents groupes de composés bioactifs accumulés dans les mollusques bivalves

La bioactivité des toxines du phytoplancton qui s’accumulent dans les coquillages est presque toujours évaluée sur modèle animal (test souris). Malgré ses avantages, la capacité de ce test à expliquer la nature de cette bio-activité reste limitée. Par ailleurs, le contrôle sanitaire actuellement basé sur une méthode ciblée d’identification et de quantification d’un ensemble de toxines connues ne permet pas de détecter des toxines encore inconnues. Afin de répondre à ce besoin de caractérisation de substances toxiques inconnues, une nouvelle approche de profilage chimique différentiel et non ciblé, de type métabolomique, a été proposée. Les 2 extraits sélectionnés sont ceux ayant montré une toxicité positive chez la souris, sans que les substances potentiellement responsables de cet effet toxique n’aient été révélées par des mesures ciblées

Alteration of microcystin-LR by hypochlorous acid: reactants consumption and byproducts formation

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Hyphenated LC-MS / LTQ-Orbitrap analysis for cyanotoxin chlorination by-products identification and monitoring

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Chlorination of the cyanotoxin microcystin-LR: Reactants consumption and by-products identification

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