期刊
REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY
卷 41, 期 -, 页码 86-97出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2013.05.006
关键词
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Pregnancy; Developmental toxicity; Reproductive toxicity; Nanotoxicology; Lung and liver pathology
资金
- Danish Working Environment Research Fund
- Danish Center for Nanosafety [20110092173/3]
- Nanokem (grant) [20060068816]
- European Union [2009 21, NMP4-SL-2009-228789]
We studied the effects of preconceptional exposure to multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs): mature, female C57BL/6J mice were intratracheally instilled with 67 mu g NM-400 MWCNT, and the following day co-housed with mature males, in breeding pairs. Time to delivery of the first litter, litter parameters, maternal inflammation and histopathology of lung and liver were recorded. In male offspring, locomotor activity, startle response, and daily sperm production (DSP) were assessed. In the dams, lung and liver bore evidence of MWCNT exposure when assessed 6 weeks and 4 months after exposure. A short delay in the delivery of the first litter was observed in exposed females. Litter parameters, behavior and DSP were similar in control and exposed groups. In conclusion, instillation of a single dose of MWCNT induced long lasting pathological changes in dam lung and liver. Theoretically, lung inflammation due to particle exposure could interfere with female reproductive parameters. Whether the observed lag in delivery of a first litter was in fact caused by exposure to MWCNT should be addressed in a study designed specifically to elucidate effects on the early processes involved in establishment of pregnancy. Exposure was not associated with changes in the assessed gestational or offspring parameters. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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