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The interplay of arsenic, silymarin, and NF-ĸB pathway in male reproductive toxicity: A review
| Title: | The interplay of arsenic, silymarin, and NF-ĸB pathway in male reproductive toxicity: A review |
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| Authors: | Anirban Goutam Mukherjee, Abilash Valsala Gopalakrishnan |
| Source: | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Vol 252, Iss , Pp 114614- (2023) |
| Publisher Information: | Elsevier, 2023. |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Collection: | LCC:Environmental pollution LCC:Environmental sciences |
| Subject Terms: | Silymarin, Silibinin, Arsenic, NF-ĸB, Male, Reproductive toxicity, Environmental pollution, TD172-193.5, Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| More Details: | Arsenic toxicity is one of the most trending reasons for several malfunctions, particularly reproductive toxicity. The exact mechanism of arsenic poisoning is a big question mark. Exposure to arsenic reduces sperm count, impairs fertilization, and causes inflammation and genotoxicity through interfering with autophagy, epigenetics, ROS generation, downregulation of essential protein expression, metabolite changes, and hampering several signaling cascades, particularly by the alteration of NF-ĸB pathway. This work tries to give a clear idea about the different aspects of arsenic resulting in male reproductive complications, often leading to infertility. The first part of this article explains the implications of arsenic poisoning and the crosstalk of the NF-ĸB pathway in male reproductive toxicity. Silymarin is a bioactive compound that exerts anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties and has demonstrated hopeful outcomes in several cancers, including colon cancer, breast cancer, and skin cancer, by downregulating the hyperactive NF-ĸB pathway. The next half of this article thus sheds light on silymarin's therapeutic potential in inhibiting the NF-ĸB signaling cascade, thus offering protection against arsenic-induced male reproductive toxicity. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 0147-6513 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651323001185; https://doaj.org/toc/0147-6513 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.114614 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/93b42e1f2426429c81951369fcf8e1e4 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.93b42e1f2426429c81951369fcf8e1e4 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 01476513 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.114614 |
| Published in: | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety |
| Language: | English |