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Developmental toxicity of bromoxynil in mice and rats.

Abstract
The developmental toxicity of the wide-spectrum herbicide bromoxynil (bromoxynil phenol; 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxyphenyl cyanide) was evaluated in Sprague-Dawley rats and Swiss-Webster mice, and the developmental toxicity of its octanoate ester (2,6-dibromo-4-cyanophenyl octanoate) was evaluated in Sprague-Dawley rats. Animals were treated from Day 6 to Day 15 of gestation [presence of sperm or semen plug = 0 of gestation]. The doses administered were as follows: bromoxynil phenol in the mouse, 342, 114, and 38 mumol/kg/day; bromoxynil phenol and bromoxynil octanoate in the rat, 54, 18, and 6 mumol/kg/day. Some animals were killed on selected days during treatment for measurement of organ weights sensitive to stress. In mice treated with bromoxynil phenol, maternal mortality was noted at 114 and 342 mumol/kg/day, but surviving females gained weight normally. Liver to body weight ratios increased with increasing dose, but no consistent effect was seen on adrenal, thymus, or spleen weights. Fetuses of mice treated with the highest dose of bromoxynil phenol were of lower weight and had a higher incidence of supernumerary ribs than controls. In rats, bromoxynil phenol and its octanoate ester at the highest doses used caused no mortality but resulted in only transient decreases in maternal weight gain and significantly increased the liver to body weight ratio, but did not significantly alter adrenal, thymus, or spleen weight in the dams. No significant maternal effects were seen at lower doses. The highest doses of both compounds increased the incidence of supernumerary ribs in fetuses of treated rats, but did not induce other anomalies.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
AuthorsJ M Rogers, B M Francis, B D Barbee, N Chernoff
JournalFundamental and applied toxicology : official journal of the Society of Toxicology (Fundam Appl Toxicol) Vol. 17 Issue 3 Pg. 442-7 (Oct 1991) ISSN: 0272-0590 [Print] United States
PMID1794648 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Herbicides
  • Nitriles
  • Teratogens
  • bromoxynil
Topics
  • Animals
  • Female
  • Herbicides (toxicity)
  • Mice
  • Nitriles (toxicity)
  • Pregnancy
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Species Specificity
  • Teratogens
  • Weight Gain (drug effects)

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