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© 1994 Oxford University Press

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Evaluation of an Azo and Two Anthraquinone Dyes for Allergic Potential1

DENISE M. SAILSTAD*, JEFFREY S. TEPPER*, DONALD L. DOERFLER*, QASIM MOHAMMAD{dagger} and MARYJANE K. SELGRADE{ddagger}

*ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc. P.O. Box 12313, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 {dagger}Shaw University 118 South East Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611 {ddagger}Environmental Toxicology Division, Health Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711

Received August 9, 1993; accepted March 31, 1994

Two dye mixtures and the individual component dyes were evaluated for the potential to induce contact or pulmonary hypersensitivity. These dye mixtures were suspect because of anecdotal reports of both pulmonary and contact hypersensitivity in assembly workers, and because the component dyes were structurally related to dyes known to be contact sensitizers. One mixture consisted of disperse blue 3 (DB3) and disperse red 11 (DR11), which are anthraquinones, and the other mixture contained DR11 and solvent red 1 (SR1), an azo dye. Contact hypersensitivity was examined using the local lymph node assay (LLNA) and a modified mouse ear swelling test (MEST). Both the MEST and the LLNA indicated that SR1 has weak contact-sensitizing potential. None of the other individual dye compounds or the two mixtures were identified as contact sensitizers by either method. To evaluate the mixtures as potential pulmonary allergens, guinea pigs were repeatedly exposed by inhalation (300 mg/m3 6 hr/day) 5 days/week, for 1 week. Weekly exposures were repeated three times with 2 weeks of nonexposure time in between. Guinea pigs were then challenged through the jugular vein using a dye-dimethylsulfoxide mixture. During the challenge, breathing mechanics (dynamic compliance and resistance) were measured in mechanically ventilated animals. Changes in these measurements, indicative of bronchoconstriction, were not observed in animals exposed to either dye mixture, nor were antibodies detected in the sera of exposed animals using individual dye-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. In conclusion, two methods indicate that SR1 may have contact-sensitizing potential. There was no indication of contact-sensitizing potential for either DB3 or DR11 and no evidence that any of the dyes caused pulmonary hypersensitivity.


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