Immunotoxicity of Dermal Permethrin and Cis-Urocanic Acid: Effects of Chemical Mixtures in Environmental Health

dc.contributor.authorPrater, Mary R.en
dc.contributor.committeechairHolladay, Steven D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWong, Eric A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBender, Holly S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGogal, Robert M. Jr.en
dc.contributor.committeememberAhmed, S. Ansaren
dc.contributor.departmentVeterinary Medical Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-22T18:42:30Zen
dc.date.adate2002-04-26en
dc.date.available2011-08-22T18:42:30Zen
dc.date.issued2002-03-08en
dc.date.rdate2003-04-26en
dc.date.sdate2002-03-22en
dc.description.abstractThe present study examined adverse effects of sunlight exposure (mimicked by intradermal cis-urocanic acid, cUCA) on local and systemic immune responses, with or without co-exposure to the immunotoxic insecticide permethrin. A single exposure to cUCA caused diminished splenic macrophage phagocytosis that was persistent up to 30 days post-exposure. Five-day exposure to cUCA subtly increased splenocyte proliferation in response to the T cell mitogen Concanavalin A. Four-week exposure to cUCA caused increased splenic lymphocyte cellularity, thymic hypocellularity, and enhanced hydrogen peroxide production by splenic leukocytes. Single exposure to topical permethrin resulted in decreased thymic and splenic weight and cellularity, and inhibited antibody production by splenic B cells. cUCA worsened the negative effect of permethrin on both thymic weight and cellularity, and depressed splenocyte blastogenesis, hydrogen peroxide production, and antibody production. Five-day exposure to either cUCA or permethrin also caused persistent decreased contact hypersensitivity responses, an effect that became more than additive when the chemicals were administered concurrently. Defects in antigen processing and presentation by cutaneous Langerhans cells were evaluated as possible contributing mechanisms to the cutaneous immunosuppression, using mice with deleted genes. Vehicle-exposed IFNg knockout mice displayed approximately a 22.1% depression in the ear swelling response as compared to control C57BL/6N mice, suggesting that this cytokine may be required for mounting a control-level hypersensitivity response. Ear swelling in cUCA-exposed IFNg knockout mice displayed a 21.4% depressed response as compared to cUCA-exposed wild-type C57BL/6N mice, again suggesting that IFNg is an important cytokine in the contact hypersensitivity (CH) response. TNFaR knockout mice exposed to cUCA displayed 33.9% greater ear swelling than cUCA-exposed wild-type C57BL/6N mice, suggesting that increased TNFa may be involved in inhibited CH by cUCA. TNFaR knockout mice exposed to permethrin displayed 33.9% greater ear swelling than permethrin-exposed C57BL/6N mice, suggesting that increased TNFa may also be involved in inhibited CH by permethrin. C57BL/6N mice exposed to cUCA + permethrin displayed severe reduction of the CH response to 8.7% of the control level. IFNg knockout mice exposed to permethrin + cUCA showed essentially identical depression of the CH response as IFNg knockout mice exposed to either permethrin or cUCA alone. These results suggest that IFNg is required for the greater than additive immunotoxic effect that occurred when these two agents were co-administered. TNFaR knockout mice exposed to cUCA + permethrin displayed 8.7 fold greater ear swelling than similarly exposed C57BL/6N mice, again suggesting that increased TNFa is involved in inhibited CH by both cUCA and permethrin.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.otheretd-03222002-143857en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03222002-143857en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/11047en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartRPrater.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectThymusen
dc.subjectSkinen
dc.subjectUltraviolet irradiationen
dc.subjectCD1aen
dc.subjectContact hypersensitivityen
dc.subjectIFNgen
dc.subjectMouseen
dc.subjectTNFaen
dc.subjectSpleenen
dc.subjectCis-urocanic aciden
dc.subjectPermethrinen
dc.subjectImmunotoxicityen
dc.titleImmunotoxicity of Dermal Permethrin and Cis-Urocanic Acid: Effects of Chemical Mixtures in Environmental Healthen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineVeterinary Medical Sciencesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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