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Gamer, A.O. et al.

Developmental toxicity of oral n-butylamine hydrochloride and inhaled n-butylamine in rats.

Pregnant Wistar rats were administered 0, 100, 400 or 1000 mg mono-n-butylamine hydrochloride/kg body weight/day by gavage on days 6 through 15 post coitum (sperm-positive=day 0), or inhaled mono-n-butylamine 0, 17, 50 or 152 ppm (whole-body exposure), 6 h/day on days 6 through 19 post coitum. Oral n-butylamine HCl 1000 mg/kg reduced maternal feed consumption, increased early post-implantation losses (embryonic resorptions), reduced fetal and placental weight, and retarded skeletal development (incomplete skull and sternebral ossification), and produced malformations (filiform/kinked tail, enlarged cardiac ventricular chamber(s), malpositioned heart, aortic arch atresia, diaphragmatic hernia); 100 mg/kg was the no-observed-adverse effect level (NOAEL) for prenatal developmental toxicity; 400 mg/kg, the maternal no-effect level, produced only malformations (aortic arch atresia, malpositioned heart, diaphragmatic hernia). Inhaled n-butylamine produced concentration-dependent nasal epithelial hyperplasia and squamous metaplasia, inflammation and necrosis; the maternal NOAEL was less than 17 ppm. There were no treatment-related signs of embryo/fetotoxicity, particularly, no effects on fetal morphology. The developmental NOAEL was 152 ppm. The neutralization of n-butylamine by hydrochloride converts it from a strong alkali causing tissue burns into a weak acid/base which is fetotoxic. Possible mechanisms of fetotoxicity are free radical production, metabolic acidosis, and lysosomotrophy.[1]

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Developmental toxicity of oral n-butylamine hydrochloride and inhaled n-butylamine in rats. Gamer, A.O., Hellwig, J., van Ravenzwaay, B., Heliwig, J. Food Chem. Toxicol. (2002) [Pubmed]

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