The Effect of Perinatal Exposure to Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin on the Immune Response of Young Mice
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Drug and Chemical Toxicology
- Vol. 2 (1-2), 77-98
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01480547908993183
Abstract
The immunocompetence of 5 week old offspring from mice fed control chow or chow containing 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) was evaluated. The 5 ppb maternal feeding level was the only level that produced symptoms of intoxication in the offspring (i.e., facial alopecia and periorbital edema). Mice from mothers fed either 2.5 or 5 ppb of TCDD demonstrated thymus cortex atrophy and a significantly reduced spleen anti-SRBC plaque forming cell (PFC) response, but had normal serum anti-SRBC antibody levels following primary and secondary immunization. Contact sensitivity response to DNFB was significantly reduced only in offspring from mothers fed 5 ppb of TCDD. The blastogenio response of splenic T- and B-lymphocytes to concanavalin-A and E. coli lipopolysaccharide was unaffected by perinatal TCDD exposure. This correlated with the normal appearance of the T- and B-cell dependent areas of the spleens from these animals. There was no significant difference in the differential white blood cell counts between control and TCDD-exposed offspring. Offspring from mothers fed up to 5 ppb of TCDD withstood a live Listeria challenge as well as controls. However, maternal feeding levels as low as 1 ppb of TCDD rendered offspring more sensitive to an endotoxin challenge.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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