Tumor promoting and co-carcinogenic effects in medium-term rat hepatocarcinogenesis are not modified by co-administration of 12 pesticides in mixture at acceptable daily intake.
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the possible influence of a mixture of pesticides on medium-term carcinogenesis using improved hepatocarcinogenesis protocols. We performed a 12 commercially available pesticides combination with alachlor, atrazine, carbofuran, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, dicofol, endosulfan, iprodione, mancozeb, maneb, procymidone and rotenone. The mixture was given at 1-fold and 10-fold the acceptable daily intake (ADI) level in a set of Solt-Farber-derived protocols involving diethylnitrosamine, 2-acetylaminofluorene treatments and a partial hepatectomy. Co-carcinogenic effect and promoting activity were evaluated using gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) positive altered hepatocyte foci, as well, protein and mRNA levels of glutathione S-transferase P (GSTP) in liver extracts as molecular biomarkers of carcinogenic effects. The pesticide treatments when compared to vehicle treatments always produced the same number of hepatocyte lesions and an equal GSTP expression on liver extracts independently of carcinogenic-protocol utilized. On this base, we concluded that the pesticide mixture evaluated in this report does not have tumor promoting activity or co-carcinogenic effect in the rat medium-term liver carcinogenesis. Altogether these data contribute to the confidence that the ADI represents a safe intake level to mixture of pesticides at dietary exposure.
Perez-Carreon
Julio Isael
JI
UMR 1089-Xénobiotiques, Institut INRA-ENVT, 180 chemin de Tournefeuille, BP 3, F-31 300 Toulouse, France.
Dargent
Celine
C
Merhi
Maysaloun
M
Fattel-Fazenda
Samia
S
Arce-Popoca
Evelia
E
Villa-Treviño
Saul
S
Rouimi
Patrick
P
D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002273:Carcinogens / Q000633:toxicity*; D003043:Cocarcinogenesis; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006498:Hepatectomy; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000201:enzymology; D008297:Male; D010575:Pesticides / Q000633:toxicity*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase / Q000378:metabolism
D002273:Carcinogens; D010575:Pesticides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D005723:gamma-Glutamyltransferase; D005982:Glutathione Transferase