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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 6, Pages 1836-1843Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/tox.22406
Keywords
abnormal nuclei; C; elegans; cellular toxicity; etoposide; germ cell toxicity; reproductive toxicity; topoisomerase inhibitor; 3T3-L1 cells
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- High Value-added Food Technology Development Program [315067-03]
- Intramural Program [2Z04690]
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Etoposide, a topoisomerase II inhibitor, has been widely used as a clinical anticancer drug to treat diverse cancer patients. Since not only rapidly dividing cancer cells but also the cells of normal human tissues and every living organism in environmental ecosystems have topoisomerases, it is crucial to study the toxicity of etoposide in other organisms in addition to cancer cells. In this study, we evaluated the toxicity of etoposide in both a soil nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, and 3T3-L1 normal murine cells. Etoposide significantly retarded the growth, egg laying, and hatching in C. elegans. Etoposide also affected the reproductive gonad tissue, decreased the number of germ cells and induced abnormally enlarged nuclei in C. elegans. In addition, etoposide inhibited 3T3-L1 cell proliferation, with IC50 values of 37.8 +/- 7.3 and 9.8 +/- 1.8 M after 24 and 48 hours of treatment, respectively, via the induction of cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase and apoptotic cell death. Etoposide also induced nuclear enlargement in 3T3-L1 normal murine cells. The reproductive toxicity and abnormal nuclear morphological changes seemed to correlate with the adverse effects of etoposide. We suggest that these experimental platforms, i.e., the toxicological evaluation of both nematodes and 3T3-L1 cells, may be useful to study the mechanisms underlying the side effects of chemicals, including topoisomerase inhibitors.
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