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- Title
Histopathology of Japanese Medaka (Oryzias latipes) Chronically Exposed to a Complex Environmental Mixture.
- Authors
Toussaint, Margaret W.; Wolfe, Marilyn J.; Burton, Dennis T.; Hoffmann, Florence J.; Shedd, Tommy R.; Gardner, Henry S.
- Abstract
Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) were used to evaluate the carcinogenicity of a complex groundwater that contained 5 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency priority pollutant heavy metals and 13 chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons. A test protocol that used 10 mg/L diethylnitrosamine (DEN) prior to groundwater exposure was designed to assess both initiation and promotion. The fish were exposed continuously for 9 mo with 0, 1, 5, or 25% groundwater, by volume, with either West Branch of Canal Creek water (Aberdeen Proving Ground-Edgewood Area, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD) or dechlorinated tap water as the diluent, while concurrent controls were run in the laboratory. Incidental findings included various neoplasms in the nares, ovary, skeletal muscle, skin, swim bladder, testis, thymus, and thyroid. Factors evaluated during statistical analyses of fish neoplasm prevalence included diluent type, groundwater percentage, fish gender, and DEN initiation. Liver neoplasm prevalence was higher in DEN-initiated fish and was frequently higher in males. Concentrations of up to 25% groundwater, by volume, showed no evidence of being a complete carcinogen and showed no consistent, conclusive evidence of being a promoter.
- Publication
Toxicologic Pathology, 1999, Vol 27, Issue 6, p652
- ISSN
0192-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019262339902700607