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PARTICLE AND FIBRE TOXICOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12989-017-0238-9
Keywords
Carbon black; Cerium oxide; Titanium dioxide; Nanoparticles; Liver; Intratracheal instillation; Intravenous injection; Oral gavage; Genotoxicity; DNA strand breaks
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- Danish Centre for Nanosafety from the Danish Working Environment Research Foundation [20110092173-3]
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Background: Little is known about the mechanism underlying the genotoxicity observed in the liver following pulmonary exposure to carbon black (CB) nanoparticles (NPs). The genotoxicity could be caused by the presence of translocated particles or by circulating inflammatory mediators released during pulmonary inflammation and acute-phase response. To address this, we evaluated induction of pulmonary inflammation, pulmonary and hepatic acute-phase response and genotoxicity following exposure to titanium dioxide (TiO2), cerium oxide (CeO2) or CB NPs. Female C57BL/6 mice were exposed by intratracheal instillation, intravenous injection or oral gavage to a single dose of 162 mu g NPs/mouse and terminated 1, 28 or 180 days post-exposure alongside vehicle control. Results: Liver DNA damage assessed by the Comet Assay was observed after intravenous injection and intratracheal instillation of CB NPs but not after exposure to TiO2 or CeO2. Intratracheal exposure to NPs resulted in pulmonary inflammation in terms of increased neutrophils influx for all NPs 1 and 28 days post-exposure. Persistent pulmonary acute phase response was detected for all NPs at all three time points while only a transient induction of hepatic acute phase response was observed. All 3 materials were detected in the liver by enhanced darkfield microscopy up to 180 days post-exposure. In contrast to TiO2 and CeO2 NPs, CB NPs generated ROS in an acellular assay. Conclusions: Our results suggest that the observed hepatic DNA damage following intravenous and intratracheal dosing with CB NPs was caused by the presence of translocated, ROS-generating, particles detected in the liver rather than by the secondary effects of pulmonary inflammation or hepatic acute phase response.
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