Maternal and fetal blood and organ toluene levels in rats following acute and repeated binge inhalation exposure |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States;2. Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology Laboratory, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States;3. Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States;4. C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth & Development, Neurobehavioral Teratology Laboratory, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States;1. Veterinary Microbiology and Preventative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;2. Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA;3. Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA;1. Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil;2. Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;3. JBS Biodiesel, Lins, SP, Brazil;4. Bianchini S/A, Canoas, RS, Brazil;1. Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 501 Haike Road, Shanghai 201203, PR China;2. Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 9 Dongjin Road, Lianyungang 222069, PR China;1. University of Chemistry and Technology, Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis, Technická 3, 166 28, Praha 6, Czechia;2. University of Chemistry and Technology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Technická 3, 166 28, Praha 6, Czechia;3. Institute of Medical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, and 4th Department of Internal Medicine, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, U Nemocnice 2, Praha 2, 128 01, Czechia |
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| Abstract: | Inhalation of organic solvents is a persistent form of drug abuse with particular concern being the abuse of inhalants by women of child-bearing age. While studies have begun assessing postnatal outcomes of offspring exposed prenatally to inhalants, relatively little is known about the distribution of toluene in blood and body tissues of pregnant, inhalant-abusing women, or in the fetuses. The present study assessed the tissue toluene levels attained following brief toluene exposures using a pre-clinical rat model of maternal inhalant abuse. Timed-pregnant Sprague–Dawley rats were exposed to toluene at 8000 or 12,000 parts per million (ppm) for 15, 30 or 45 min/exposure. Exposures occurred twice each day from gestational day 8 (GD8) through GD20. Immediately following the second exposure on GD8, GD14 and GD20 blood was taken from the saphenous vein of the dams. Following saphenous vein blood collection on GD20, dams were sacrificed and trunk blood was collected along with maternal tissue specimens from cerebellum, heart, lung, kidney and liver. The placenta, amniotic fluid and fetal brain were also collected. Results demonstrated that maternal saphenous blood toluene levels increased as the inhaled concentration of toluene and duration of exposure increased. The maternal cerebellum, heart, kidney and liver appeared to be saturated after 30 min on GD20 such that toluene levels in those organs were equivalent across all ambient concentrations of inhaled toluene. Toluene levels also increased in fetal brain as the inhaled concentration of toluene increased and in placenta and amniotic fluid as the duration of exposure increased. Toluene levels in all tissues at GD20, except maternal lung and amniotic fluid, were higher than in maternal saphenous blood suggesting that toluene concentrated in those organs. Measurement of toluene levels in blood and other tissues following repeated toluene exposure demonstrated that toluene readily reaches a variety of potential sites of action throughout the maternal–placental–fetal unit. |
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