Profiles of parabens and their metabolites in paired maternal-fetal serum, urine and amniotic fluid and their implications for placental transfer.

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Abstract
Six parabens and their four metabolites were measured in paired maternal serum (MS) and cord serum (CS) samples collected from 95 pregnant women to elucidate placental transfer of this class of compounds. Matched maternal urine (MU) and amniotic fluid (AF) collected from 13 of 95 pregnant women were also analyzed to examine partition of these chemicals between maternal and fetal tissues. The placental transfer rates (PTRs; concentration ratio of parabens between CS and MS) of methyl- (MeP), ethyl- (EtP), propyl-parabens (PrP) were 0.81, 0.63, and 0.60, respectively. Furthermore, the PTRs of OH-MeP (0.93) and OH-EtP (1.8) were higher than those of their corresponding parent parabens, which suggested that hydroxylation increased placental transfer rates of parabens. Structure-dependent placental transfer mechanisms were observed. A significant negative correlation between molecular weights (or log K) of MeP, EtP, PrP, and p-hydroxy benzoic acid (4-HB) and PTRs suggested passive diffusion as a mechanism of placental transfer of these chemicals. Nevertheless, other hydroxylated metabolites (OH-EtP, OH-MeP, and 3,4-dihydroxy benzoic acid (3,4-DHB)) showed a positive correlation between molecular weight (or log K) and PTRs, which suggested that the placental transfer is mediated by protein binding of these metabolites. The MU to MS concentration ratios of MeP (MU/MS) and PrP (MU/MS) were 71 and 81, respectively, and MU/MS was two orders of magnitude higher than that found for the metabolite (MU/MS: 0.35), suggesting that hydroxylation metabolite reduced urinary elimination of parabens. To our knowledge, this is the first time to report the occurrence and distribution of parabens and their metabolites in paired maternal-fetal serum, urine, and AF samples in China. Our results provide novel information on placental transfer of parabens and their metabolites.
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Authors Song, Shiming;He, Yuan;Zhang, Tao;Zhu, Hongkai;Huang, Xiongfei;Bai, Xueyuan;Zhang, Bo;Kannan, Kurunthachalam;
Journal Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Year 2020
DOI
S0147-6513(20)30074-9
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Keywords
metabolites parabens maternal-fetal samples placental transfer

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