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Administrative data

Endpoint:
chronic toxicity: oral
Type of information:
experimental study
Adequacy of study:
key study
Study period:
1976
Reliability:
2 (reliable with restrictions)
Rationale for reliability incl. deficiencies:
study well documented, meets generally accepted scientific principles, acceptable for assessment

Data source

Reference
Reference Type:
publication
Title:
Unnamed
Year:
1977

Materials and methods

Test guideline
Qualifier:
equivalent or similar to guideline
Guideline:
OECD Guideline 408 (Repeated Dose 90-Day Oral Toxicity Study in Rodents)
Deviations:
yes
Remarks:
Exposure duration 33 weeks instead of 12 weeks
GLP compliance:
no
Limit test:
yes

Test material

Constituent 1
Chemical structure
Reference substance name:
Disodium β-glycerophosphate
EC Number:
212-464-3
EC Name:
Disodium β-glycerophosphate
Cas Number:
819-83-0
Molecular formula:
C3H7O6P.2Na
IUPAC Name:
disodium β-glycerophosphate
Test material form:
not specified

Test animals

Species:
rat
Strain:
Wistar
Sex:
male
Details on test animals or test system and environmental conditions:
TEST ANIMALS
- Weight at study initiation: 220-225 g
- Fasting period before study: not specified
- Housing: individual wire cages
- Diet: ad libitum plain ground Purina rat chow
- Water: ad libitum
- Acclimation period: not specified

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
- air-conditioned laboratory
- Photoperiod: 12 : 12 h light-dark cycle

Administration / exposure

Route of administration:
oral: feed
Details on oral exposure:
- DIET PREPARATION :
- ground Purina rat chow containing 2.5% beta-glycerophosphate.


Analytical verification of doses or concentrations:
not specified
Duration of treatment / exposure:
33 weeks
Frequency of treatment:
daily
Doses / concentrations
Dose / conc.:
1 900 mg/kg bw/day (actual dose received)
Remarks:
The daily intake of beta-glycerophosphate was calculated from food consumption
No. of animals per sex per dose:
9
Control animals:
yes, plain diet

Examinations

Observations and examinations performed and frequency:
CAGE SIDE OBSERVATIONS: Not specified

DETAILED CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS: Not specified
- Time schedule:

BODY WEIGHT: Yes
- Time schedule for examinations: not specified, recorded throughout the experiment

FOOD CONSUMPTION AND COMPOUND INTAKE (if feeding study):
-yes

OPHTHALMOSCOPIC EXAMINATION: No

HAEMATOLOGY and CLINICAL CHEMISTRY: Yes
- Time schedule for collection of blood: at the end of 33 weeks
- Anaesthetic used for blood collection: Yes, Nembutal
- Animals fasted: Not specified
- How many animals: all
- Blood was drawn from the femoral vein
- Parameters checked haematology: total blood counts, differential blood count and hematocrit and hemoglobin determinations.
- Parameters checked clinical Chemistry: cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids, serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum alkaline phosphatase.

URINALYSIS: No

NEUROBEHAVIOURAL EXAMINATION: No

IMMUNOLOGY: No

OTHER:
- Bile was collected under nembutal anaestetic from cannulated bile duct for two 1-h collection periods. During the two hours of bile collection the rats were infused with isotonic saline at the rate of 1 ml/h through a catheter placed in the femoral vein in order to replace the volume of collected bile.
- Parameters analyzed: cholesterol, bile acids and phospholipids.

- Cholesterol, phospholipids and triglycerides were also determined in frozed portions of Liver.
Sacrifice and pathology:
GROSS PATHOLOGY: Yes. Liver, spleen, kidneys, testes, heart and brain were
removed and weighed.

HISTOPATHOLOGY: Yes. Parts of the liver and kidneys were preserved in buffered formaline. Hematoxylin-eosin staining.
Statistics:
Student's t-test

Results and discussion

Results of examinations

Clinical signs:
not specified
Mortality:
mortality observed, non-treatment-related
Description (incidence):
Control: 2/9
Treated: 1/9

Body weight and weight changes:
no effects observed
Food consumption and compound intake (if feeding study):
no effects observed
Haematological findings:
no effects observed
Clinical biochemistry findings:
no effects observed
Organ weight findings including organ / body weight ratios:
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Kidneys which were significantly larger in the /3-glycerophosphate-fed group (0.686 + 0.027) compared to control group (0.569 + 0.020). Attributed to hyperplasia.
Heart, brain, testes and spleen were similar in the treated and control groups.
Gross pathological findings:
no effects observed
Histopathological findings: neoplastic:
no effects observed
Other effects:
effects observed, treatment-related
Description (incidence and severity):
Beta-glycerophosphate significantly increased the phospholipid concentrations (4.79 + 0.20 vs. 3.55 + 0.20 mtmol/ml) without
affecting the cholesterol and bile acid concentrations or the volumes of bile collections.
Liver phospholipids were significantly higher in the beta-glycerophosphate-fed rats compared to control rats (5117.0 +/- 169.6 vs. 4180.8 +/- 132.5
mg/100 g, respectively)

Effect levels

Key result
Dose descriptor:
NOAEL
Effect level:
> 1 900 mg/kg bw/day (actual dose received)
Based on:
test mat.
Sex:
male
Basis for effect level:
body weight and weight gain
clinical biochemistry
gross pathology
haematology
histopathology: non-neoplastic
mortality
organ weights and organ / body weight ratios

Target system / organ toxicity

Key result
Critical effects observed:
no

Applicant's summary and conclusion

Conclusions:
Beta-glycerophosphate when given in a high dose for a prolonged period of time has no detrimental effect in rats.
Executive summary:

Toxic effects of a high dose of orally administered disodium beta-glycerophosphate to the rat for a period of 33 weeks was determined.

Beta-glycerophosphate administration had no effect on either survival rate, body weight, hematological and liver function tests or on serum and liver lipids concentrations. All organ weights were similar in the control and experimental rats except for the kidneys which were significantly heavier in the beta-glycerophosphate-fed rats. The biliary phospholipids concentrations was significantly increased in the treated group. Histological examination of liver and kidneys did not reveal any pathological findings. These results suggest that long-term administration of beta-glycerophosphate did not induce any

toxic manifestations. The observed hyperplasia of the kidneys was attributed to the effect of the sodium content of beta-glycerophosphate.