Nervous system degeneration produced by the industrial solvent methyl n-butyl ketone.
Nervous system degeneration produced by the industrial solvent methyl n-butyl ketone.
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工业溶剂甲基正丁基酮产生的神经系统变性。
DOI:
10.1001/archneur.1975.00490460035002
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发表时间:
1975
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通讯作者:
C. J. Terhaar
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作者:
P. Spencer;H. Schaumburg;R. L. Raleigh;C. J. Terhaar
Because of a number of cases of peripheral neuropathy that occurred in factory workers employed in a fabric-printing plant in 1973, chronic inhalation experiments have been conducted using the printing-ink solvents methyl n-butyl ketone (MBK) and methyl iso-butyl ketone (MIBK). After four months of intermittent respiratory exposure to 1,300 parts per million (ppm) MBK, all six rats tested developed severe symmetric weakness in the hindlimbs. Morphological studies showed massive focal axonal enlargements containing abnormally large numbers of neurofilaments and dying-back axonal degeneration in peripheral and central nerve fibers. Six rats similarly exposed for five months to 1,500 ppm of MIBK showed minimal distal axonal change, but remained neurologically intact. The principal conclusion of this study is that MBK is a neurotoxin in rats.