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- Title
Pathology of Lethal and Sublethal Doses of Aerosolized Ricin in Rhesus Macaques.
- Authors
Bhaskaran, Manoj; Didier, Peter J.; Sivasubramani, Satheesh K.; Doyle, Lara A.; Holley, Jane; Roy, Chad J.
- Abstract
Ricin toxin, a type 2 ribosome-inactivating protein and a category B bioterrorism agent, is produced from the seeds of castor oil plant (Ricinus communis). Chronic pathological changes in survivors of aerosolized ricin exposure have not been reported in primates. Here we compare and contrast the pathological changes manifested between rhesus macaques (RM) that succumbed to lethal dose of ricin (group I) and survivor RM exposed to low dose of ricin (group II). All animals in group I exhibited severe diffuse, necrotizing bronchiolitis and alveolitis with fibrinopurulent bronchointerstitial pneumonia, massive alveolar, perivascular and peribronchial/bronchiolar edema with hemorrhage, and necropurulent and hemorrhagic tracheobronchial lymphadenitis. All animals from group II had multifocal, fibrosing interstitial pneumonia with prominent alveolar histiocytosis and type II pneumocyte hyperplasia. Subacute changes like infiltration by lymphocytes and plasma cells and persistence of edematous fluid were occasionally present in lung and tracheobronchial lymph nodes. The changes appear to be a continuum wherein the inflammatory response shifts from an acute to subacute/chronic reparative process if the animals can survive the initial insult.
- Subjects
RICIN; RIBOSOME-inactivating proteins; CASTOR oil plant; RHESUS monkeys; BRONCHIOLITIS; PNEUMONIA
- Publication
Toxicologic Pathology, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 3, p573
- ISSN
0192-6233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0192623313492248