Effect of life stage and target tissue on dose–response assessment of ethyl methane sulfonate‐induced genotoxicity
- 14 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis
- Vol. 62 (9), 482-489
- https://doi.org/10.1002/em.22465
Abstract
In order to investigate the possibility that treatment age affects the genotoxic response to ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) exposure, we dosed gpt-delta neonatal mice on postnatal days 1-28 with 5 to 100 mg/kg/day of EMS and measured micronucleus (MN) induction in peripheral blood and gpt gene mutation in liver, lung, bone marrow, small intestine, spleen, and kidney. The data were compared to measurements from similarly exposed adult gpt-delta mice (Cao et al., 2014, Environ Mol Mutagenesis 55: 385-399). Our results indicate that the peripheral blood MN frequencies in mice treated as neonates are not substantially different from those measured in mice treated as adults. There were, however, differences in tissue-specific gpt mutation responses in mice treated with EMS as neonates and adults. Greater mutant frequencies were seen in DNA isolated from kidney of mice treated as neonates, whereas the mutant frequencies in bone marrow, liver, and spleen were greater in the animals treated as adults. Benchmark Dose potency ranking indicated that the differences for kidney were significant. Our data indicate that there are differences in EMS-induced genotoxicity between mice treated as adults and neonates; the differences, however, are relatively small.Keywords
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