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Transport and Subcellular Distribution of Nickel in the Olfactory System of Pikes and Rats
*Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 573, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
Department of Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacia & Upjohn AB, Lund Research Center Box 724, SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Received September 22, 1997; accepted February 2, 1998
Occupational exposure to nickel by inhalation may result in impaired olfactory sense. Recent studies have shown that nickel is transported from the olfactory epithelium along the axons of the primary olfactory neurons to the brain. In the present study 63Ni2+ was applied in the olfactory chambers of pikes (Esox lucius) and the rate at which the metal was transported in the primary olfactory neurons was determined by ß-spectrometry. The results showed a wave of 63Ni2+ in the olfactory nerves, which slowly moved toward the olfactory bulbs. The maximal 63Ni2+ transport rate corresponding to the movement of the base of the wave front was found to be about 0.13 mm/h at the experimental temperature (10°C). This rate of 63Ni2+ transport falls into the class of slow axonal transport. Radioluminography of tape sections of a pike given 63Ni2+ in the right olfactory chamber showed a selective labeling of the right olfactory nerve. The subcellular distribution of 63Ni2+ in the olfactory nerves and the olfactory epithelium of the pikes was studied in tissues subjected to homog-enizations and centrifugations, and these methods were also used to examine the subcellular distribution of 63Ni2+ in tissues of the olfactory system of rats given the metal intranasally. It was found that the 63Ni2+, in both the pike and the rat, was present in the cytosol and also in association with various paniculate cell constituents. Gel nitrations of the cytosols showed that the 63Ni2+ mainly was eluted at a VeVO ratio corresponding to a MW of about 250. The same coefficient was obtained in gel filtrations performed with 63Ni2+ mixed with histidine in vitro. It is likely that the cytosolic nickel may be bound to histidine or possibly to other amino acids which are similar in size to histidine. Additionally, in the olfactory tissues of the rat the 63Ni2+ was partly present in the cytosol in association with a component with a MW of about 25,000. It is concluded that (i) 63Ni2+ is transported in the primary olfactory neurons by means of slow axonal transport, (ii) in this process the metal is bound to both particulate and soluble cytosolic constituents, and (iii) the metal shows this subcellular distribution also in other parts of the olfactory system.
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