Formaldehyde induces toxicity in mouse bone marrow and hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells and enhances benzene-induced adverse effects

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• 作者：Chenxi Wei ; Huaxiao Wen ; Langyue Yuan ; Cliona M. McHale ; Hui Li…
• 关键词：Formaldehyde ; Benzene ; Hematotoxicity ; Bone marrow ; Myeloid progenitor
• 刊名：Archives of Toxicology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：91
• 期：2
• 页码：921-933
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• 刊物主题：Pharmacology/Toxicology; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Environmental Health; Biomedicine, general;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0738
• 卷排序：91

文摘

Formaldehyde (FA) is a human leukemogen and is hematotoxic in human and mouse. The biological plausibility of FA-induced leukemia is controversial because few studies have reported FA-induced bone marrow (BM) toxicity, and none have reported BM stem/progenitor cell toxicity. We sought to comprehensively examine FA hematoxicity in vivo in mouse peripheral blood, BM, spleen and myeloid progenitors. We included the leukemogen and BM toxicant, benzene (BZ), as a positive control, separately and together with FA as co-exposure occurs frequently. We exposed BALB/c mice to 3 mg/m3 FA in air for 2 weeks, mimicking occupational exposure, then measured complete blood counts, nucleated BM cell count, and myeloid progenitor colony formation. We also investigated potential mechanisms of FA toxicity, including reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, apoptosis, and hematopoietic growth factor and receptor levels. FA exposure significantly reduced nucleated BM cells and BM-derived colony-forming unit-granulocyte–macrophage (CFU-GM) and burst-forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E); down-regulated GM-CSFRα and EPOR expression; increased ROS in nucleated BM, spleen and CFU-GM cells; and increased apoptosis in nucleated spleen and CFU-GM cells. FA and BZ each similarly altered BM mature cells and stem/progenitor counts, BM and CFU-GM ROS, and apoptosis in spleen and CFU-GM but had differential effects on other end points. Co-exposure was more potent for several end points. Thus, FA is toxic to the mouse hematopoietic system, including BM stem/progenitor cells, and it enhances BZ-induced toxic effects. Our findings suggest that FA may induce BM toxicity by affecting myeloid progenitor growth and survival through oxidative damage and reduced expression levels of GM-CSFRα and EPOR.