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Acute Inhalation Exposure to Epichlorohydrin Transiently Decreases Rat Sperm Velocity1

VALERIE L. SLOTT*, JUAN D. SUAREZ*, JANE ELLEN SIMMONS{dagger} and SALLY D. PERREAULT{ddagger}

*NSI Technology Services Coporation, Research Triangle park North Carolina 27709 {dagger}Environmental Toxicology Divisions, Health Effects Research Laboratory, USEPA North Carolina 27709 {ddagger}Developmental Toxicology Health Effects Research Laboratory, USEPA North Carolina 27709

Received January 16, 1990; accepted May 14, 1990

Acute Inhalation Exposure to Epichlorohydrin Transiently Decreases Rat Sperm Velocity. Slott, V. L., Suarez, J. D., Simmons, J. E., and Perreault, S. D. (1990). Fundam. Appl. To.xicol. 15, 597–606. The effect of inhaled epichlorohydrin on rat sperm motility characteristics was evaluated. Male F-344 rats were exposed to 100 ppm epichlorohydrin via inhalation for 4 hr in the morning of Day 0 and killed immediately and on Days 1, 2, 6, and 14 postexposure. Videotapes of cauda epididymal sperm were analyzed (300–350 sperm/sample) with a Hamilton Thorn motility analyzer (HTM-2000, Hamilton Thorn Research, Danvers, MA). Epichlorohydrin did not affect the percentage of motile sperm at any time. However, transient changes in sperm velocity were found. On Day 1 postexposure mean progressive (straight line) and mean path (smoothed curvilinear) velocity were significantly decreased to 80 and 85% of control, respectively. The progressive velocities of sperm from both control and treated rats were normally distributed, indicating a general effect of epichlorohydrin on all sperm as opposed to a more severe effect on a specific sperm subpopulation. Sperm velocity was not significantly affected at later times. Other endpoints (testis and epididymis weights, testicular spermatid counts, and cauda epididymal sperm reserves) were unaltered by epichlorohydrin. Thus, inhaled epichlorohydrin at 100 ppm produced specific, transient decreases in rat sperm velocity. Furthermore, computer-assisted sperm analysis was able to detect these relatively subtle, toxicant-induced changes in rat sperm velocity, demonstrating the utility of this technology in reproductive toxicology studies.


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