Experimental hepatic uroporphyria induced by the diphenyl-ether herbicide fomesafen in male DBA/2 mice.
Hepatic uroporphyria can be readily induced by a variety of treatments in mice of the C57BL strains, whereas DBA/2 mice are almost completely resistant. However, feeding of the protoporphyrinogen oxidase-inhibiting herbicide fomesafen (0.25% in the diet for 18 weeks) induced hepatic uroporphyria in male DBA/2N mice (liver porphyrin content up to 150 nmol/g, control animals 1 nmol/g), whereas fomesafen-treated male C57BL/6N mice displayed only a slight elevation of liver porphyrins (approximately 5 nmol/g). The profile of accumulated hepatic porphyrins in fomesafen-treated DBA/2N mice resembled the well-characterised uroporphyria induced by polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, while histological examination confirmed the presence of uroporphyria-specific cytoplasmic inclusions in the hepatocytes. Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase activity decreased to about 30% of control values in fomesafen-treated DBA/2N mice; microsomal methoxyresorufin O-dealkylase activity was slightly reduced. The amount of CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 mRNA, as determined by real-time PCR, was not significantly changed; mRNA encoding the housekeeping 5-aminolevulinic acid synthase was elevated 10-fold. Total liver iron was slightly increased. A similar uroporphyria was induced by the herbicide formulation Blazer, containing a structurally related herbicide acifluorfen, when fed to DBA/2N mice at a dose corresponding to 0.25% of acifluorfen in the diet. Since DBA/2 mice are almost completely resistant to all well-characterised porphyrogenic chemicals, the results suggest the possible existence of a yet unknown mechanism of uroporphyria induction, to which the DBA/2 mouse strain is more sensitive than the C57BL strain.[1]References
- Experimental hepatic uroporphyria induced by the diphenyl-ether herbicide fomesafen in male DBA/2 mice. Krijt, J., Psenák, O., Vokurka, M., Chlumská, A., Fakan, F. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. (2003) [Pubmed]
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