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Lung Toxicity after 13-Week Inhalation Exposure to Nickel Oxide, Nickel Subsulfide, or Nickel Sulfate Hexahydrate in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice

J. K. DUNNICK*, M. R. ELWELL*, J. M. BENSON{dagger}, C. H. HOBBS{dagger}, F. F. HAHN{dagger}, P. J. HALY{dagger}, Y. S. CHENG{dagger} and A. F. EIDSON{dagger}

*National Toxicology Program, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 {dagger}Lovelace Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185

Received May 23, 1988; accepted September 30, 1988

Lung Toxicity after 13-Week Inhalation Exposure to Nickel Oxide, Nickel Subsulfide, or Nickel Sulfate Hexahydrate in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice. DUNNICK, J. K., ELWELL, M. BENSON, J. M., HOBBS, C. H., HAHN, F. F., HALY, P. J., CHENG, Y. S., AND EIDSON, A. F. (1989). Fundam. Appl. Toxicol. 12, 584–594. The relative toxicity of nickel oxide (NiO), nickel sulfate hexahydrate (NiSO46H2O) and nickel subsulfide (Ni3S2) was studied in F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice after inhalation exposure for 6 hr/day, 5 days/week, for 13 weeks. Exposure concentrations used (as mg Ni/m3 were 0.4–7.9 for NiO, 0.02–0.4 for NiSO4 6H2O and 0.11–1.8 for Ni3S2. No exposure-related effects on mortality and only minor effects on body weight gain were seen in rats or mice. The most sensitive parameter for nickel toxicity was histopatho logic change in the lungs of exposed animals where chronic active inflammation, fibrosis, and alveolar macrophage hyperplasia werez associated with nickel exposure. There was an exposure- related increase in lung weight in rats and mice. Equilibrium levels of nickel in the lung were reached by 13 weeks of nickel sulfate and nickel subsulfide exposure, whereas lung levels of nickel continued to increase throughout exposure to nickel oxide. Additional exposure-related histopathologic lesions in treated animals included atrophy of the olfactory epithelium after nickel sulfate and nickel subsulfide exposure. No nasal lesions were seen after nickel oxide expo sure. Lymphoid hyperplasia of the bronchial lymph nodes developed in animals exposed to all three nickel compounds. The order oftoxicity corresponded to the water solubility of the nickel compounds, with nickel sulfate being most toxic, followed by nickel subsulfide and nickel oxide.


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