Effects of reduced food intake on toxicity study parameters in rats

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This study comprehensively describes the effects of various levels of food reduction on a wide range of toxicological parameters in dietary-optimized rats (fed with approximately 75% of ad libitum food consumption daily; 16g and 22g/day for females and males, respectively) that has been established as a nutritionally appropriate and well-controlled animal model in conducting toxicity studies. Toxicological parameters, including general condition, ophthalmology, clinical pathology and anatomic pathology, were examined in dietary-optimized Crl: CD (SD) female and male rats fed 16g and 22g/day (control), 12g and 17g/day (75% group), 8g and 11g/day (50% group), or 4g and 6g/day (25% group), respectively for 2 weeks. There was mortality and morbidity including reddish urine in 25% group females. The reddish urine was identified as "hemoglobinuria" that resulted from extra/intra-vascular hemolysis induced by severe food reduction. Hemoconcentration, decreased leukocytes and platelets, decreases in nutritional elements (serum glucose, protein, and lipids), increased aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase, imbalanced electrolytes, and/or decreased urinary pH were observed in all restriction groups. Histopathologically remarkable changes included erythrophagocytosis in the spleen/liver and renal tubular necrosis with hyaline cast/droplets in 25% group; in addition to bone marrow depletion, lymphoid depletion in thymus/spleen/lymph node, and/or decreased secretion in the prostate/seminal vesicle in all restriction groups. Most of these changes were considered attributable to nutritional deficiency, dehydration, accelerated protein catabolism, stress and/or hemolysis secondary to severe food reduction. These results will enable toxicologists to help distinguish primary drug-induced effects from secondary changes associated with decreases in food consumption.
2008-12-01

Effects of reduced food intake on toxicity study parameters in rats

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