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The effects of contamination, through water or food, of a sublethal dose of the organophosphate methyl parathion were analyzed in tissues that are responsible for absorption (gills, intestine) and metabolism (liver), in the freshwater fish Corydoras paleatus. In gill respiratory lamellae, epithelial hyperplasia, edema, and detachment occurred, diminishing sooner after contamination by food than after contamination through water. In the intestine, lipoid vacuolization of enterocytes, apical cytoplasm, and an increase in goblet cell activity occurred mainly after ingestion of contaminated food. The liver exhibited cloudy swelling, bile stagnation, focal necrosis, atrophy, and vacuolization after contamination through both absorption routes, the highest degeneration being between T(8) and T(24). Metabolic processes that depend on liver function were equally impaired by the two routes of contamination, but secondary effects vary with gill and intestine pathologies as a consequence of water and food contamination, respectively. Therefore, a "safe" sublethal dose of methyl parathion causes serious health problems in C. paleatus.
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Peces/fisiología , Branquias/patología , Insecticidas/efectos adversos , Hígado/patología , Metil Paratión/efectos adversos , Contaminantes Químicos del Agua/efectos adversos , Absorción , Animales , Insecticidas/farmacocinética , Hígado/fisiología , Metil Paratión/farmacocinética , Distribución Tisular , Contaminantes Químicos del Agua/farmacocinéticaRESUMEN
Organophosphorus insecticides and arylamines, widely distributed in the environment, can be activated into mutagens by plants. Plant activation of three aromatic amines, 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine (NOP), m-phenylenediamine (m-PDA) and 2-aminofluorene (2AF), and two organophosphorus insecticides, dimethoate and methyl parathion has been the focus of this study. The plant cell/microbe coincubation assay was used employing coriander (Coriandrum sativum) suspended cell cultures as the activating system. Interestingly, this vegetable is included in the Mexican diet and ingested generally uncooked and could have epidemiological consequences. As a genetic end point, the Salmonella typhimurium tester strain TA98 was used. Protein contents, as well as peroxidase activity and peroxidase activity inhibited by diethyldithiocarbamate (DEDTC) of coriander cultures were determined after the coculture. Coriander cells highly activated three aromatic amines, NOP, m-PDA and 2-AF to mutagenic products detected in Salmonella. On the other hand, insecticides were only lightly activated, probably because peroxidase activity of coriander cells was inhibited, corroborated by DEDTC peroxidase inhibition. In all the assays, NOP was the more potent mutagenic compound. The results demonstrated that coriander cells were metabolically competent and suitable for a plant cell microbe coincubation assay, developed to analyze the promutagen activation by plant systems and can be used as a indicator of potential genetic effects.
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Coriandrum/metabolismo , Contaminantes Ambientales/farmacocinética , Mutágenos/metabolismo , Biotransformación , Células Cultivadas , Dimetoato/farmacocinética , Fluorenos/farmacocinética , Metil Paratión/farmacocinética , Peroxidasas/fisiología , Fenilendiaminas/farmacocinética , Proteínas de Plantas/análisisRESUMEN
Organophosphorus pesticides are one of the most commonly used insecticide classes. They act through a potent inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Many of them must undergo transformation into the corresponding oxon analogs to inhibit AChE. This study showed that a brain tissue subfraction transformed methyl parathion (O,O-dimethyl O-p-nitrophenyl phosphorothioate) in vitro. Methyl parathion activation was assayed by solvent extraction of the products followed by HPLC and GC-MS analyses and, indirectly, by the inhibition of AChE present in the incubation mixture. The lack of impairment of AChE after 2 h of incubation of the brain subfraction with methyl parathion and, alternatively, with NADPH, CO, SKF 525-A, piperonyl butoxide or nitrogen indicated that this brain subfraction transformed methyl parathion without the involvement of a mixed-function oxidative pathway. The results from HPLC analysis did not show a peak corresponding to methyl paraoxon (O,O-dimethyl O-p-nitrophenylphosphate), but showed the production of an unidentified peak which eluted nearby standard methyl parathion (retention times of 10.65 and 8.86 min, respectively). GC-MS analysis suggested that the unidentified product could be a methyl parathion isomer.