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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-9-23
pubmed:abstractText
The efficacies of N-acetylcysteine (NAC), phenylethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC), and 1-O-hexyl-2,3,5-trimethylhydroquinone (HTHQ) at preventing the neurotoxicity and testicular toxicity of acrylamide (ACR) were investigated in rats. To this end, Sprague-Dawley males were given 0.02% ACR in drinking water, with or without 1% NAC, 0.5% PEITC or 0.1% HTHQ in the diet for four weeks. A group of untreated controls was also included in the study. All ACR-treated animals exhibited progressive neurotoxicity as judged by gait scores, and among the chemicals co-administered, only HTHQ caused any suppression by the end of the experiment, and this was slight. The severity of the neurotoxicity, as judged by axonal degeneration in the spinal gracile fasciculus and sciatic nerve (distal portion) and aberrant dot-like synaptophysin immunoreactivity, reflecting nerve terminal degeneration in the cerebellar molecular layer, was not clearly reduced by co-administration of HTHQ, NAC or PEITC either. ACR-induced sciatic nerve axon atrophy was marginally and non-significantly reduced by HTHQ. In contrast, in terms of ACR-induced testicular toxicity, exfoliation of spermatids into seminiferous lumen was clearly reduced by co-administered PEITC and was marginally reduced by co-administered HTHQ. These antioxidative agents may therefore reduce/prevent ACR-induced toxicity, at least in the testes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0340-5761
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
79
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
531-41
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Acrylamide, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Antioxidants, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Axons, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Cerebellar Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Drinking, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Gait, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Isothiocyanates, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Nerve Degeneration, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Nervous System Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Organ Size, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Sciatic Nerve, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Spinal Cord, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Synaptophysin, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Testicular Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:15864552-Trigeminal Ganglion
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Chemoprevention of acrylamide toxicity by antioxidative agents in rats--effective suppression of testicular toxicity by phenylethyl isothiocyanate.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't