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1、influence of genetically modified soya on the birth-weight and survival of rat pupsabstract1 investigation of the influence of gm soya on the birthrate and survival of the offspring 后代of wistar rats2 were performed. a group of female rats were fed gm soya flour before mating 交配and pregnancy. the con
2、trol group of females were fed traditional soya and the third group of females, the positive 十足的,纯粹的control group, received feed without any soya. the weight and the mortality死亡 rate of the newborn pups were analyzed. the study showed that there was a very high rate of pup mortality (55.6%) in the g
3、m soya group in comparison with the control group and the positive control group (9% and 6.8% respectively各自,分别). moreover, death in the first group continued during lactation哺乳, and the weights of the survivors are lower those from the other two groups. it was revealed in these experiments, that gm
4、 soya could have a negative influence on the offsprings of wistar rats.introduction2 the term genetically modified organism (gmo3s) refers to plants, microbes and animals with genes transferred from other species in order to produce certain novel characteristics (for example resistance to pests害虫, o
5、r herbicides) and are produced by recombinant dna technology. four main sources of the hazards危险 of gmo are discussed by scientists worldwide: 1) those due to the new genes, and gene products introduced插入; 2) unintended effects inherent内在的 to the technology; 3) interactions between foreign genes and
6、 host genes; and 4) those arising from the spread of the introduced genes by ordinary cross-pollination异花授粉 as well as by horizontal gene transfer (world scientists statement 2000).3 gm crops contain material, which is not present in them under natural conditions, and they form a part of our daily d
7、iet. to understand what effect they can have on us and on our animals it is vitally important to study the influence of these gm plants in different organisms for several generations. at the present, these studies are lacking from the scientific literature. also, several detrimental effects of gm cr
8、ops had been showed on the metabolism of animals. the hazard of genetically modified organisms (gmo) was shown for animals and the environment in many investigations (traavik 1995; ho and tappeser 1997; pusztai 1999 and 2001; kuznetcov et al. 2004 and others).earlier it was shown that consumption of
9、 gm food by animals led to the negative changes in their organisms. experiments, conducted by a. pusztai showed that potatoes modified by the insertion of the gene of the snowdrop lectin4 (an insecticidal proteins), stunted the growth of rats, significantly affected some of their vital organs, inclu
10、ding the kidneys, thymus, gastrocnemius muscle and others (1998) and damaged their intestines and their immune system (ewen and pusztai 1999). similar effect of gm potatoes on rats was obtained at institute of nutrition in russia (ermakova 2005).4 it is put forward in the risk assessment documents t
11、hat the gm components of transformed plants are completely destroyed in the digestive tract of humans and animals, together with the other genetic material found in them. however, foreign dna plasmids5 are steadier against the digestion than it was originally believed. plasmid dna and gm dna were fo
12、und in microorganisms of the intestine and in saliva (mercer et al. 1998; coghlan 2002). experimental researches in mice showed that ingested foreign dna can persist in fragmented form in the gastrointestinal tract, penetrate the intestinal wall, and reach the nuclei of leukocytes, spleen and liver
13、cells (schubbert et al. 1994). in another research of schubbert et al. (1998) the plasmid containing the gene for the green fluorescent protein6 (pegfp-c1) or bacteriophage m13 dna were fed to pregnant mice. foreign dna, orally ingested by pregnant mice, was discovered in blood (leukocytes), spleen,
14、 liver, heart, brain, testes and other organs of foetuses and newborn animals. the authors considered that maternally ingested foreign dna could be potential mutagens for the developing fetus. at the same time brake and evenson (2004) analyzing the testis in mice as a sensitive biomonitor of potenti
15、al toxic, didnt find negative effects of transgenic soybean diet on fetal, postnatal, puber talor adult testicular development.5 there is a lack of investigations on the influence of gm crops on mammals, especially on their reproductive function. therefore, it was decided that we undertake a study t
16、o see the effect of the most commonly used gm crop on the birth rate, mortality and weight gain of rat pups, whose mother were fed diets supplemented with the roundup- ready soya, a kind of gm food.methodsanimals6 wistar rats were used in the experiment. the animals were brought up to sexual maturit
17、y on laboratory rat feed. when their weight reached about 180-200g, the female rats were divided into 3 groups, and housed in groups (3 rat/cage), and kept under normal laboratory conditions.7 the feeding scheme was as follows. females in every cage daily received dry pellets from a special containe
18、r placed on the top of their cage. those rats receiving soya flour supplement, were given the soya flour in a small container placed inside their cage (20g x 40 ml water) for three rats and, so 5-7g flour for each rat every day.experiment8 one group of female rats of 180-200g weight was allocated to
19、 the experimental group, and received 5-7 soy a flour/rat/day prepared from roundup-ready soya, added to the rat feed for two weeks. another group females (3) were allocated to the control group, but their diet was supplemented with the same amount of soya flour, prepared from the traditional soya i
20、n which only traces (0.08+ 0.04%) of the gm construct was present, most likely resulting from cross-contamination. we also introduced a positive control group (in two cages: 3x3), which had not been exposed to soya flour. therefore females have only got the standard laboratory feed without any suppl
21、ementation, although it is acknowledged that the energy and protein content of this diet was less than in the other two groups.9 after two weeks on the diets all groups of 3 females were mated with two healthy males of the same age, who have never been exposed to soya flour supplements. first the on
22、e, then the other male was put into the cage for 3 days. in order to avoid infection of females, the sperm count and quality has not been determined. we carried on with feeding the respective diets to all females during mating and pregnancy. upon delivery, all females were transferred to individual
23、cages, and the amount of soya supplement was increased by an additional g for every pup born. lab feed and water was available for all animals during the experimental period. when rat pups opened their eyes and could feed themselves (from 13-14 days of age), the daily dose of soya supplement was inc
24、reased till 2-3g for every pup, although all rats had free approach to the soya. all rats ate their soya portions well. organs of some pups were taken out and weighed. statistical analysis10 the level of mortality was analyzed by the one-way anova7, using of newman-keuls test8 for share distribution
25、. the pups weight and its distribution were checked by mann-whitney test9 and chi-square10 in statsoft statistica v6.0 multilingua (russia).results11 by the end of the experiment, from the 15 females included in the experiment, 11 gave birth and produced a total of 132 rat pups. the 4 rats who becam
26、e pregnant from 6 females on the positive control diet gave birth to 44 pups (an average of 11 pups/female), while the four females, from the six on gm soya flour supplemented groups gave birth to 45 (11.3 pups/female), and 3 from traditional soya group33 pups (11 pups/mother).12 supplementation of
27、the diet of the females with gm soya led to the death of 25 pups, out of the 45 born by the end of the third week of lactation, while during the same period on the traditional soya supplemented diets only 3 pups died from 33. the mortality in the positive control group was also 3, but from the large
28、r number of pups born, as it seen in table 1. high pup mortality was generally characteristic for females fed the gm soya flour (table2).13 among the pups from the females fed the positive control diet, 2 pups died during the first week, and 1 during the second week after delivery. all pups from fem
29、ales fed traditional soya flour died during the first week after birth. however, pups from females fed the gm soya flour supplemented diet kept dying during lactation period as it is evident from table3.14 in two weeks after their birth the weight of pups (with se) from the gm soya supplemented grou
30、p was less (23.95g ±1.5g) than that of the pups of the positive control group (30.03g±1.1g; p<0.005), or from the traditional soya flour supplemented group (27.1g± 0.9g; p< 0.1). since the number of surviving pups were so different, the weigh distribution of the pups were compar
31、ed in table 4. from the data it is evident, that 36% of the pups from the gm soya group weighed less than 20 g, in comparison with the 6% in the positive control group, and with the 6.7% found in the traditional soya supplemented diet group (table 4). study of pups organs mass showed that the organs
32、 of small pups from gm group were tiny in comparison with the same of other groups except the brain mass (table 5). this fact indicated that the pups from the gm group were the same age as others, but changes were occurred with the development of internal organs. slight negative effect was found in
33、the group which received the traditional soya, but this effect was not significant. no mortality of females and survived young pups eating the gm soya flour supplemented diet was observed.discussion15 the reproductive behaviour of female rats fed on standard laboratory feed supplemented with soya fl
34、our prepared from either genetically modified soya or traditional soya was studied to see the effect of the diet on pregnancy, lactation and the growth of the rat pups. since it is well established that raw soybean contains a number of anti-nutrients, such as the lectins, trypsin inhibitors, etc. (p
35、usztai et al. 1998), and also female hormone-like substances, it was thought to be necessary to compare these data also with those from a positive control group when animals were not exposed to any soya flour supplementation.16 in order to understand the mechanism how this widely consumed gm crop ex
36、erts its influence on the reproductive performance of mammals and their offspring, it would be necessary to perform complex researches, including histological, genetic and embryo-toxicological investigations. however, we had to restrict our experiments only for a short time-span, and starting to fee
37、d the female rats two weeks before mating. however, unlike the experiments of brake and evenson (2004), who started to feed pregnant mice, in our experiments the diets supplemented with gm or traditional soya flours were already given to the female rats 2 weeks before mating already, and we continue
38、d to treat them with their respective diet until the pups were weaned.17 upon delivery, very unexpectedly a very high rate of pup mortality (55.6%) was observed in the the group of females whose diet was supplemented with the gm soya flour in comparison with the pups of both the positive control (6.
39、8%) and the traditional soya flour supplemented (9%) groups. also, in this group the pups continued to die over the period of lactation, which occurred only in the gm soya fed group. at the same time, the weights of the surviving rat pups were also lower. it is the more surprising, since the pups we
40、re smaller, about half, therefore more milk should have been available for the individual pups. they should have a better chance to grow optimally, unless the amount, and/or the quality of the milk were not affected by consuming the gm soya flour.18 our data allow us to speculate and presume that th
41、e negative effect of gm soya on the newborn pups could be mediated by two possible factors. firstly, it can be the result of transformation, and insertion of the foreign genes, which could enter into the sexual/stem cells, or/and into cells of the fetus, as it was observed by schubbert et al. (1998)
42、. secondly, negative effect of gm soya could be mediated by the accumulation of roundup residues in gm soya residues. however, no mortality was observed with female rats, nor with the young pups survived, although they also began to eat the gm soya, it is supposed that the effect could be mediated b
43、y the two first factors. (2,086 words)references brake dg and evenson dp (2004). a generational study of glyphosate-tolerant soybeans on mouse fetal, postnatal, pubertal and adult testicular development. food chemistry and toxicology, 42: 29-36.coghlan a (2002). gm crop dna found in human gut bugs.
44、new scientist. 2002.ermakova iv (2005). conclusion to the report about feeding of rats by genetically modified potatoes russet burbank agrarian russia 2005. 62-64.ewen sw, pusztai a (1999). effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoesexpressing galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intes
45、tine. lancet 354 (9187).ho mw and tappeser b (1997). potential contributions of horizontal gene transfer to the transboundary movement of living modified organisms resulting from modernbiotechnology. in transboundary movement of living modified organisms resultingfrom modern biotechnology: issues and opportunities for policy-makers (k. j. mulongoy, ed.) international academy of the environment, switzerland:171-193.kuznetcov w, kulikov am, mitrohin ia and cidendambaev vd (2004). geneticallymodified organisms and biological safet
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