Authors: Mizuguchi, Yohei¹; Myojo, Toshihiko¹; Oyabu, Takako¹; Hashiba, Masayoshi¹; Lee, Byeong Woo¹; Yamamoto, Makoto¹; Todoroki, Motoi¹; Nishi, Kenichiro¹; Kadoya, Chikara¹; Ogami, Akira¹; Morimoto, Yasuo¹; Tanaka, Isamu¹; Shimada, Manabu²; Uchida, Kunio³; Endoh, Shigehisa³; Nakanishi, Junko³

Source: Inhalation Toxicology, Volume 25, Number 1, January 2013 , pp. 29-36(8)

Publisher: Informa Healthcare

Abstract:

Inhalation studies and intratracheal instillation studies using laboratory animals are commonly conducted for pulmonary toxicity tests of nanomaterials. In our study, male Wister rats were exposed to nickel oxide (NiO) particles including a nano-scale, even for aerosols and suspensions, in a 4-week inhalation and intratracheal instillation. Using polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid as a biomarker of inflammation, we attempted to quantify the relationship between responses to inhalation and intratracheal instillation of the nanoparticles, based on surface area doses. Four kinds of NiO suspension samples with different specific surface areas were singly injected via the tracheas of the rats. The relationship between the instilled doses and PMN production was examined 3 days and 1 month after the instillation. In parallel, 4-week inhalation studies, using two of the suspensions, were conducted for aerosols generated by a pressurized nebulizer. NiO samples induced PMN responses 3 days after instillation according to the surface area doses, but not the mass doses, as has been reported in many studies. When the same NiO samples were tested in a 4-week inhalation and intratracheal instillation, the amount of pulmonary deposition of the sample after the 4-week inhalation, and an intratracheally instilled dose about ten-times higher, induced similar PMN responses 3 days after termination of inhalation and instillation. Using the relationship between these responses to 4-week inhalation and intratracheal instillation, it may be possible to estimate what aerosol concentrations of other nanomaterials might cause the same responses of PMN production as intratracheal instillation tests.

Keywords: Polymorphonuclear neutrophils; PMNs; inhalation; instillation; nanoparticles; nickel oxide

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/08958378.2012.751470

Affiliations: 1: 1Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan. Kitakyushu, Japan 2: 2Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan 3: 3National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

Publication date: 2013-01-01

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