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Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes Translocate Into the Pleural Cavity and Induce Visceral Mesothelial Proliferation in Rats

Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes Translocate Into the Pleural Cavity and Induce Visceral Mesothelial Proliferation in Rats

Jiegou Xu, Mitsuru Futakuchi, Hideo Shimizu, David B Alexander, Kazuyoshi Yanagihara, Katsumi Fukamachi, Masumi Suzui, Jun Kanno, Akihiko Hirose, Akio Ogata, Yoshimitsu Sakamoto, Dai Nakae, Toyonori Omori, etc.

Cancer Sci. 2012 Dec;103(12):2045-50.

PMID: 22938569

Abstract:

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes have a fibrous structure similar to asbestos and induce mesothelioma when injected into the peritoneal cavity. In the present study, we investigated whether carbon nanotubes administered into the lung through the trachea induce mesothelial lesions. Male F344 rats were treated with 0.5 mL of 500 μg/mL suspensions of multi-walled carbon nanotubes or crocidolite five times over a 9-day period by intrapulmonary spraying. Pleural cavity lavage fluid, lung and chest wall were then collected. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes and crocidolite were found mainly in alveolar macrophages and mediastinal lymph nodes. Importantly, the fibers were also found in the cell pellets of the pleural cavity lavage, mostly in macrophages. Both multi-walled carbon nanotube and crocidolite treatment induced hyperplastic proliferative lesions of the visceral mesothelium, with their proliferating cell nuclear antigen indices approximately 10-fold that of the vehicle control. The hyperplastic lesions were associated with inflammatory cell infiltration and inflammation-induced fibrotic lesions of the pleural tissues. The fibers were not found in the mesothelial proliferative lesions themselves. In the pleural cavity, abundant inflammatory cell infiltration, mainly composed of macrophages, was observed. Conditioned cell culture media of macrophages treated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes and crocidolite and the supernatants of pleural cavity lavage fluid from the dosed rats increased mesothelial cell proliferation in vitro, suggesting that mesothelial proliferative lesions were induced by inflammatory events in the lung and pleural cavity and likely mediated by macrophages. In conclusion, intrapulmonary administration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, like asbestos, induced mesothelial proliferation potentially associated with mesothelioma development.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP308068566-A	Carbon nanotube, multi-walled		308068-56-6	Price

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