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Effects Of Environmentally Relevant Transplacental Arsenic Exposure On Mouse (Mus Musculus) Hepatic Protein Expression, Jay Knowlton
Effects Of Environmentally Relevant Transplacental Arsenic Exposure On Mouse (Mus Musculus) Hepatic Protein Expression, Jay Knowlton
Honors College
Inorganic arsenic is a well-known toxic element found around the world, but the molecular mechanisms involved in arsenic toxicity are currently poorly understood. Arsenic has been linked to several types of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other metabolic diseases. This project explores the toxic effects of arsenic using mouse (Mus musculus) as a mammalian model organism. Preliminary data from the Van Beneden lab has shown that mice respond to low-dose, transplacental arsenic exposure in a dose-, sex-, and generation-dependent manner. The current study addresses a potential mechanism of toxicity by determining relative expression levels of pAKT/AKT1, a serine/threonine kinase that …