Evaluation of Immunotoxicity in a Subchronic Feeding Study of Triphenyl Phosphate

Author:

Hinton Dennis M.1,Jessop John J.1,Arnold Alphonso1,Albert Richard H.2,Hines Fred A.3

Affiliation:

1. Division of Toxicology Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration Washington, D.C.

2. Division of Mathematics Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration Washington, D.C.

3. Division of Pathology Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Food and Drug Administration Washington, D.C.

Abstract

Triphenyl phosphate (TPP), a potential food contaminant, was fed to weanling Spartan Sprague-Dawley rats at dose levels of 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1.0%for 120 days. The immunotoxicity evaluation, planned as a minimum testing model in a subchronic study design as well as to provide information on TPP, was performed along with the routine testing of a separate group of animals. Traditional measures were made of growth and food consumption, total pro tein analysis, electrophoretic analyses of serum proteins, lymphoid organ weights in relation to growth, and histopathology, with expanded immunohistochemical evaluation of B- and T- lymphocyte regions in spleen, thymus, and lymph nodes, using immunoperoxidase staining. Assessment was made of the humoral response to a T-lymphocyte-dependent antigen, sheep red blood cells, and was begun at midterm of the feeding period for the pri mary response followed by secondary and teritary booster immuni zations at 3-week intervals. The kinetics of the responses were measured by hemolysin assay of relative antibody titers at days 3, 4, 5, and 6 postinjection. No significant effects on the responses were noted for either sex at any of the dose levels tested. The only effects noted were a decreased rate of growth at high levels of TPP and increases in the levels of a- and β-globulins suggestive of increased hepatic activity.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Toxicology

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