Evaluation of repeated dose micronucleus assays of the liver and gastrointestinal tract using potassium bromate: a report of the collaborative study by CSGMT/JEMS.MMS.

Abstract

The food additive potassium bromate (KBrO3) is known as a renal carcinogen and causes chromosomal aberrations in vitro without metabolic activation and in vivo in hematopoietic and renal cells. As a part of a collaborative study by the Mammalian Mutagenicity Study group, which is a subgroup of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society, we administered KBrO3 to rats orally for 4, 14, and 28 days and examined the micronucleated (MNed) cell frequency in the liver, glandular stomach, colon, and bone marrow to confirm whether the genotoxic carcinogen targeting other than liver and gastrointestinal (GI) tract was detected by the repeated dose liver and GI tract micronucleus (MN) assays. In our study, animals treated with KBrO3 showed some signs of toxicity in the kidney and/or stomach. KBrO3 did not increase the frequency of MNed cells in the liver and colon in any of the repeated dose studies. However, KBrO3 increased the frequency of MNed cells in the glandular stomach and bone marrow. Additionally, the MNed cell frequency in the glandular stomach was not significantly affected by the difference in the length of the administration period. These results suggest that performing the MN assay using the glandular stomach, which is the first tissue to contact agents after oral ingestion, is useful for evaluating the genotoxic potential of chemicals and that the glandular stomach MN assay could be integrated into general toxicity studies.

• Authors: Emiko Okada, Yohei Fujiishi, Kazunori Narumi, Shoichi Kado, Yumi Wako, Kazufumi Kawasako, Kimiyuki Kaneko, Wakako Ohyama
• Journal: Mutation research. Genetic toxicology and environmental mutagenesis (Mutat Res Genet Toxicol Environ Mutagen) Vol. 780-781 Pg. 94-9 (Mar 2015) ISSN: 1879-3592 [Electronic] Netherlands
• PMID: 24637080 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Chemical References

• Bromates
• Carcinogens
• potassium bromate

Topics

• Administration, Oral
• Age Factors
• Animals
• Body Weight (drug effects)
• Bone Marrow (drug effects, pathology)
• Bromates (toxicity)
• Carcinogens (toxicity)
• Chromosome Aberrations (drug effects)
• Colon (drug effects)
• Cooperative Behavior
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Drug Administration Schedule
• Hepatocytes (drug effects)
• Humans
• Japan
• Kidney (drug effects, pathology)
• Liver (drug effects)
• Male
• Micronucleus Tests
• Organ Specificity
• Rats
• Rats, Sprague-Dawley
• Societies, Pharmaceutical
• Stomach (drug effects, pathology)