EVALUATION OF THE DOSE-RESPONSE AND INUTERO EXPOSURE TO SACCHARIN IN THE RAT
EVALUATION OF THE DOSE-RESPONSE AND INUTERO EXPOSURE TO SACCHARIN IN THE RAT
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DOI:
10.1016/0278-6915(85)90142-5
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
CARLBORG, FW
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作者:
SCHOENIG, GP;GOLDENTHAL, EI;CARLBORG, FW
A 2-generation bioassay on sodium saccharin (NaS), involving 2500 2nd generation male rats, was designed to determine the dose response for urinary bladder tumors in male rats and to evaluate other changes possibly related to the occurrence of the tumors. Six treatment groups (125-700 rats/group) were fed dietary levels of NaS ranging from 1.0-7.5%. To evaluate the role of in utero exposure, 2 additional groups were exposed to NaS only during gestation via dams fed diet containing 5.0% NaS or for a single generation beginning at birth. In the latter group, the nursing dams were placed on an NaS diet immediately after giving birth and their offspring were weaned onto diets containing 5.0% NaS. A 3rd additional group, included to evaluate the specificity of NaS and the role of excess Na in the occurrence of urinary bladder tumors, was fed diet containing sodium hippurate (NaH) for 2 generations, 5.0% NaH to the 1st generation and to the 2nd until 8 wk old, and subsequently 3.0% because of unexpected toxicity. A clear dose response for urinary bladder tumors was observed in the 2nd generation. NaS-treated male rats. The steep slope of the dose-response curve indicated a rapid decline in tumor incidence with decreasing dose. the 1.0% dietary level (fed to 700 rats) was considered to be a no-effect level for bladder tumors. The only other treatment-related pathological changes were an increase in urinary bladder weight in rats fed .gtoreq. 3.0% and an increase in mineralization of the kidneys with .gtoreq. 1.0%. Several physiological effects were seen in the NaS-treated groups showing an increase in bladder tumors (i.e., those fed .gtoreq. 3.0%). Some changes, e.g depressed growth and increased water consumption, were indicative of a general disturbance of these rats, but analysis of body weight, food consumption, compound consumption and water consumption data revealed no correlation within any dose group between these quantitative data and the occurrence of bladder tumors. Other changes indicative of the compromised situation of the rats fed high dietary levels of NaS were anemia in weanling rats fed 5.0 or 7.5% and a reduction in litter size at dietarry levels .gtoreq. 3.0%. Changes in urine volume and urine osmolality were highly correlated with the occurrence of the urinary bladder tumors. The bladder tumor incidence in rats exposed to NaS only during gestation was comparable to that of the untreated controls, and that in rats exposed to NaS from birth for a single generation was similar to that of rats fed diets containing 5.0% NaS for 2 generations. Bladder tumor incidence was not increased in rats fed NaH for 2 generations, but the need to lower the dietary level from 5.0 to 3.0% during the study reduced the value of this group for comparing the physiological effects and tumor incidence following NaH treatment with those in NaS-treated rats.