Anguidine-induced testicular injury in Lewis rats.
Anguidine (diacetoxyscirpenol, DAS) and other trichothecene mycotoxins are potent inhibitors of protein synthesis and injure organs with rapidly dividing cell populations, including the testis. Testicular structure and function were studied in male Lewis rats 1, 3, 7, 30, 60, and 90 days after exposure at age 12 weeks to anguidine at 1.7 mg/kg body weight given by ip injection. The dose was equivalent to 75% of the ip LD50. Anguidine caused a gradual decline in testicular weight beginning 30 days after treatment. Sperm production was also reduced by 30 days, and the frequency of hypocellular seminiferous tubules increased by day 60. There was no evidence of recovery by 90 days. These changes are consistent with injury to proliferating cells early in the maturation sequence. Epididymal sperm reserves were reduced by 3 days after anguidine administration, prior to the reduction in sperm production, suggesting premature release of spermatozoa from the epididymis.
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Department of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts.
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Rogers
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D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000633:toxicity*; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D004822:Epididymis / Q000166:cytology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D012671:Seminiferous Tubules / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D013087:Spermatids / Q000187:drug effects; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000187:drug effects; D013733:Testicular Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D013737:Testis / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D014255:Trichothecenes / Q000633:toxicity*
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D014255:Trichothecenes; C001809:diacetoxyscirpenol