NIEHS technical report on the 13-week toxicity study of 3'-Azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) and isoniazid combinations (CAS nos. 30516-87-1 and 54-85-3) administered by gavage to B6C3F1 mice

Male and female B6C3F1 mice were dosed orally with AZT alone (100, 200, or 400 mg AZT/kg body weight per day), isoniazid alone (50, 100, or 150 mg/kg per day), or combinations of AZT and isoniazid for up to 94 days. Mice were evaluated for clinical signs, mortality, body and organ weights, sperm fun...

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Main Author: Rao, Ghanta N.
Corporate Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Bethesda, Maryland] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health 2002, July 2002
Series:NIH publication
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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520 |a Male and female B6C3F1 mice were dosed orally with AZT alone (100, 200, or 400 mg AZT/kg body weight per day), isoniazid alone (50, 100, or 150 mg/kg per day), or combinations of AZT and isoniazid for up to 94 days. Mice were evaluated for clinical signs, mortality, body and organ weights, sperm function and vaginal cytology, and hematology and clinical chemistry parameters. Core study mice, early-death clinical pathology mice, and females from the 400 + 150 mg/kg (AZT + isoniazid) clinical pathology group were necropsied and subjected to histopathological evaluations. The significant effects of treatment with AZT and isoniazid are summarized in the Abstract Table. The primary toxicity of AZT was bone marrow suppression. The hematopoietic toxicity was manifested by dose-related anemia, thrombocytosis, and a reticulocytopenia followed by reticulocytosis. Cellular depletion of the bone marrow was observed microscopically and was considered the major treatment-related effect. Increased pigmentation of the skin and a slight decline in epididymal sperm motility also occurred in mice treated with AZT alone. Administration of isoniazid alone resulted in slight hepatotoxicity manifested by hepatocellular hypertrophy and pigment deposition in the liver of male mice. Treatment with isoniazid also resulted in a slight increase in the duration of estrus. Administration of AZT in combination with isoniazid resulted in hematopoietic toxicity of greater severity than that resulting from the administration of AZT alone. The bone marrow suppression and anemia resulted in significant mortality in female mice treated with the highest combinations of AZT and isoniazid. Combination therapy also resulted in treatment-related declines in body weight, reticulocytopenia followed by reticulocytosis, thrombocytosis, leukopenia, neutropenia, lymphopenia, and a slight increase in the duration of estrus