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Hepatotoxicity Induced by Microcystin-LR in Rat

  • Kim, Bum-Seok (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Cho, Jae-Woo (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Kwon, Hyuk-Nyun (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Blank, Ivar (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Borisova, Irina (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Ejaz, Sohail (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Chekarova, Irina (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Kwon, Jung-Kee (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Lim, Chae-Woong (Biosafety Research Institute, Chonbuk National University)
  • Published : 2006.12.30
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Abstract

Microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is a cyanobacterial hepatotoxin mainly produced by Microcystis aeruginosa. The current study examined the effects of a single intraperitoneal dose of MC-LR in rats. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were intraperitoneally injected with MC-LR ($100{\mu}g/kg$ body weight) and they were sacrificed at 0, 20, 40, 80, 160 min, or 12 h after injection. Clinically, animals showed lethargy and had ruffled hair beginning at 40 min post injection. In the gross findings, liver was enlarged and its color was changed into dark red beginning at 40 min post injection. Microscopically, dissociation of centrilobular hepatocytes and hemorrhage was observed in the hepatic central legions and such pathological changes were then extended to the portal regions of liver by time course manner. Interestingly at 80 min after MC-LR injection, the entrapped eosinophilic materials that may be necrotic fragments of dissociated hepatocytes were found in the capillaries of lung and renal glomerulus. Ultrastructurally, microvilli of the hepatocytes were disrupted or lost at all time points. Furthermore, the Disse space and gap junctions were widened beginning at 40 min post injection. These results suggest that liver is the major target organ of MC-LR and isolated hepatocytes by the effects of such hepatotoxin may secondarily reduce the physiological function of lung and kidney.

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