Acetoaceto-o-Toluidide Enhances Cellular Proliferative Activity in the Urinary Bladder of Rats.

Acetoaceto-o-toluidide (AAOT) is made from ortho-toluidine (OTD) and is used for the synthesis of pigments. A report of occupational urinary bladder carcinomas in Japanese workers chronically exposed to OTD and AAOT has recently been published. OTD is a well-known human urinary bladder carcinogen; however, little is known about the toxicity and the carcinogenicity of AAOT. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the toxic effects of AAOT on urinary bladder epithelium. In vitro, the cytotoxicities of AAOT and OTD were evaluated in rat (MYP3) and human (1T1) urothelial cells. The LC50 of AAOT was higher than that of OTD in both MYP cells and 1T1 cells. In vivo, 6-week-old male and female F344 rats were fed diets supplemented with 0%, 1.5%, or 3% AAOT for 4 weeks. Incidences of simple hyperplasia, cell proliferative activity, and γ-H2AX expression, which is a novel marker for the prediction of carcinogenicity, were significantly increased in a dose-dependent manner in the bladder urothelium of male and female rats administered AAOT. Furthermore, in male and female rats administered AAOT, the major urine metabolite of AAOT was OTD. These results demonstrate that AAOT has proliferation-enhancing activity and suggest that OTD metabolized from AAOT may play a pivotal role in the deleterious effects of AAOT in rats. The results of the present study also indicate that AAOT, like other carcinogenic aromatic amines, is likely to be a human bladder carcinogen.

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