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Sujata Law, Environ Pollut Climate Change 2018, Volume 2
DOI: 10.4172/2573-458X-C1-001
Agricultural pesticide induced bone marrow aplastic anaemia and the hedgehog signaling scenario
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ultiple health hazards and fatalities from the widespread use of pesticides have been reported by the WHO. Developing
countries primarily dependent on agriculture for their economies such as India, Bangladesh and Thailand are especially
reliant on these chemicals. Consequentially, public health has been on a decline and there is a lacuna of knowledge about the effect
of pesticide exposure on bone marrow haematopoietic system. The on-field scenario was mimicked in murine model to explore
the consequences of chronic pesticide exposure. In the present work, we have developed an agricultural pesticide formulation
(fungicide, organophosphate and pyrethroid) induced bone marrow aplasia mouse model to recapitulate the human aplastic
anemia like condition in the laboratory to study the aplastic hematopoietic microenvironment in the light of Hh-GLI signaling
pathway. Our study has unfolded the fact that chronic pesticide exposure caused downregulation of intrasignaling feedback of
PATCH1 and GLI1 by inhibiting the SMO internalization and upregulating downstream negative regulators SU(FU), PKC-δ
and βTrCP. Upregulation of negative regulators not only hampers the execution of the hedgehog signaling but also cripples the
autocrine-paracrine crosstalk in between bone marrow primitive compartment and stromal compartment. Simultaneously,
individual pesticide versus hedgehog signaling study revealed that hexaconazole disrupted hematopoietic hedgehog signaling
activation by inhibiting SMO and facilitating PKC-δ expression. Contrarily, chloropyrifos increased the cytoplasmic sequestration
and degradation of GLI1 by upregulating SU(FU) and βTrCP sequentially. Whereas, cypermethrin mediated antagonization of
the hedgehog signaling was circumvented by non-canonical activation of GLI1. However, such marrow degenerative condition
can be compensated by the recombinant sonic hedgehog. We can conclude that pesticide exposure induced bone marrow aplasia
is the direct manifestation of downregulated hedgehog signaling in the bone marrow microenvironment.
Biography
Sujata Law did her PhD in Stem Cell Biology from the University of Calcutta and Postdoctoral studies in the field of Signal Transduction from Bose Institute, Kolkata. She
is in the Faculty of Stem Cell Biology in the Department of Biochemistry & Medical Biotechnology at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine a hundred years old government
institution Kolkata, India. She has teaching experience in the field of Physiology, Signal Transduction, Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering, Haematology, Stem Cells,
Cellular Immunology, Cell Biology, and aspects of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at postgraduate level and received many research projects as Principal Investigator
from various government scientific organizations like CSIR, ICMR, DST, DBT, etc. She has 57 publications in various international and national reputed journals and has
guided many PhD students and delivered invited talks in India and abroad.
msuj2002@yahoo.co.inSujata Law
Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India