Effect of short-term and long-term traffic noise exposure on the thyroid gland in adult rats: a sexual dimorphic study
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Shima Ababzadeh
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Dorsa Faghani
Abstract
Objectives
Traffic noise, as one of the noise types, is a widespread feature of the urban environments. Traffic noise exposure can lead to hearing loss, hypertension, obesity and ischemic heart diseases. Thyroid hormones involved in the physiological and pathological conditions of the body. Therefore, this study was designed to aim the evaluation of traffic noise effects on thyroid hormones secretion and thyroid tissue structure.
Methods
Seventy two males and females wistar rats were used in this study. After one week adaptation, they divided randomly into 12 groups; the control, short term (one day) and long term (one, two, three and four weeks) groups. Traffic sound was recorded, adjusted and played (86 dB) for animals. Female rats’ cycle estrus was matched. At the end of experiment, the animals were anesthetized and cardiac blood sample was drawn. Thyroid tissue was then removed. Levels of the T3, T4, TSH, corticosterone and H&E staining were measured. p<0.05 considered to be statistically significant.
Results
Findings showed that in the one-day group, T3 levels increased and T3 levels decreased in the long term groups (p<0.05). In the same way, concentration of TSH decreased in the one day, while they increased in the one, two, three and four weeks’ groups (p<0.05). Histopathological evaluations showed that in the female and male animals, long-term traffic noise increased the full follicles and decreased empty follicles (p<0.05).
Conclusions
This study revealed that traffic noise exposure led to increase of T3 plasma concentration and decrement of TSH level, although in the long term, they return to basal status. It may be due to adaptation to traffic noise.
Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: None declared.
Informed consent: Not applicable.
Ethical approval: All procedures were according to the Guidelines for Animal Care and Use at the Qom University of Medical Sciences (IR.MUQ.REC.1395.84).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Letter to the Editor
- Kerala model for combating COVID-19 pandemic
- Original Articles
- Evaluation of the potential anticancer activity of different vitamin D metabolites on colorectal and breast cancer cell lines
- Relationship between the levels of serum fibroblast growth factor 19 and metabolic factors in obese and normal weight subjects with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus: a case-control study
- Early-life stress altered pancreatic Krebs cycle-related enzyme activities in response to young adulthood physical and psychological stress in male rat offspring
- Effect of short-term and long-term traffic noise exposure on the thyroid gland in adult rats: a sexual dimorphic study
- The effect of thyroid dysfunction and treatment on adropin, asprosin and preptin levels in rats
- Comparison of the effects of zinc oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles on the expression of hepcidin gene in rat liver
- Comparison between Iberet Folic® and Zincofer® in treatment of iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
- Mini Review
- COVID-19 and pregnancy: are they friends or enemies?
- Review Articles
- COVID-19: a review on SARS-CoV-2 origin, epidemiology, virology, clinical manifestations and complications with special emphasis on adverse outcome in Bhopal Gas Tragedy survivor
- COVID-19 and neurology perspective
- COVID-19 and nutritional deficiency: a review of existing knowledge
- COVID-19 and geriatric population: from pathophysiology to clinical perspectives
- COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease: a review of current knowledge
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