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TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 242-251Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/60.2.242
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manganese; inhalation dietary interactions; biliary elimination; toxicokinetics; rat
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Concerns exist as to whether individuals with relative manganese deficiency or excess may be at increased risk for manganese toxicity following inhalation exposure. The objective of this study was to determine whether manganese body burden influences the pharmacokinetics of inhaled manganese sulfate (MnSO4,). Postnatal day (PND) 10 rats were placed on either a low (2 ppm), sufficient (10 ppm), or high (100 ppm) manganese diet. The feeding of the 2 ppm manganese diet was associated with a number of effects, including reduced body weight gain, decreased liter manganese concentrations, and reduced whole-body manganese clearance rates. Beginning on PND 77 +/- 2, male littermates were exposed 6 h/day for 14 consecutive days to 0, 0.092, or 0.92 mg MnSO4/m(3). End-of-exposure tissue manganese concentrations and whole-body Mn-54 elimination rates were determined. Male rats exposed to 0.092 mg MnSO4/m(3) had elevated lung manganese concentrations when compared to air-exposed male rats. Male rats exposed to 0.92 mg MnSO4/m(3) developed increased striatal, lung, and bile manganese concentrations when compared to air-exposed male rats. There were no significant interactions between the concentration of inhaled MnSO4 and dietary manganese level on tissue manganese concentrations. Rats exposed to 0.92 mg MnSO4/m(3) also had increased Mn-54 clearance rates and shorter initial phase elimination half-lives when compared with air-exposed control rats. These results suggest that, marginally manganese-deficient animals exposed to high levels of inhaled manganese compensate by increasing biliary manganese excretion. Therefore, they do not appear to be at increased risk for elevated brain manganese concentrations.
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