Abstract
We investigated the effects of dose rate on the frequency of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in bone marrow and spleen cells of rats exposed to ethylene oxide (EtO). Four groups (18/group) of male Fischer 344 rats were exposed to EtO by inhalation. The exposures consisted of 100 ppm for 6 hr/day, 300 ppm for 2 hr/day, 600 ppm for 1 hr/day, and clean air control. All EtO treated rats were given a total exposure dose of 600 ppm.hr daily, 5 days/week for 3, 6, or 9 months. Six rats per group were sacrificed at each time point, and SCEs were measured in cultured spleen and bone marrow cells. A statistically significant increase was found in SCEs in both bone marrow and spleen cells for all treated groups and at each time point when compared to the control, except at the 3-month exposure for the middle and high dose-rate groups in bone marrow cells. In the spleen, the increases in SCEs were similar among the three experimental groups. In bone marrow, the lowest dose rate (100 ppm) resulted in higher SCE frequencies than the medium and high dose-rate group after 3 and 6 month exposures. The overall frequencies of SCEs in the spleen cells were higher than in the bone marrow cells. The increase in SCE frequencies and decrease in the replicative index in spleen cells were also dependent on the duration of exposure. These results indicate that (1) EtO, by inhalation, can cause SCEs both in spleen and bone marrow cells of Fischer 344 rats, (2) spleen cells are more sensitive to EtO than bone marrow cells, and (3) in bone marrow cells the lowest dose-rate (longest) exposure causes more SCEs than the highest dose-rate (shortest) exposures.
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