Abstract
Ochratoxin A (OA), a nephrotoxic mycotoxin, was evaluated for genotoxic potential in a battery of in vitro and in vivo assays. OA was not mutagenic to Salmonella typhimurium, either with or without metabolic activation, in the plate incorporation (Ames) test at concentrations of 50–600 μg OA/plate or in the gradient plate assay at concentrations of 0.1–1000 μg OA/ml. No induction of unscheduled DNA synthesis was evident in primary cultures of rat hepatocytes exposed to concentrations of OA ranging from 0.000025 to 500 μg/ml. In the mouse lymphoma forward mutation assay, exposure of L5178Y TK +/− mouse lymphoma cells to OA did not increase the numbers of L5178Y TK −/− mutants. There was no significant difference between the numbers of sister-chromatid exchanges in cells from OA-treated Chinese hamsters and those in cells from the negative-control animals.
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