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Involvement of a volatile metabolite during phosphoramide mustard-induced ovotoxicity
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
  • Jill A. Madden, Iowa State University
  • Patricia B. Hoyer, University of Arizona
  • Patrick J. Devine, University of Quebec
  • Aileen F. Keating, Iowa State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
5-15-2014
DOI
10.1016/j.taap.2014.03.006
Abstract

The finite ovarian follicle reserve can be negatively impacted by chemical exposures including the anti-neoplastic agent, cyclophosphamide (CPA). CPA requires bioactivation to phosphoramide mustard (PM) to elicit its therapeutic effects however; in addition to being the tumor-targeting metabolite, PM is also ovotoxic. In addition, PM can break down to a cytotoxic, volatile metabolite, chloroethylaziridine (CEZ). The aim of this study was initially to characterize PMinduced ovotoxicity in growing follicles. Using PND4 Fisher 344 rats, ovaries were cultured for 4 days before being exposed once to PM (10 or 30 μM). Following eight additional days in culture, relative to control (1% DMSO), PM had no impact on primordial, small primary or large primary follicle number, but both PM concentrations induced secondary follicle depletion (P < 0.05). Interestingly, a reduction in follicle number in the control-treated ovaries was observed. Thus, the involvement of a volatile, cytotoxic PM metabolite (VC) in PM-induced ovotoxicity was explored in cultured rat ovaries, with control ovaries physically separated from PM-treated ovaries during culture. Direct PM (60 μM) exposure destroyed all stage follicles after 4 days (P < 0.05). VC from nearby wells depleted primordial follicles after 4 days (P < 0.05), temporarily reduced secondary follicle number after 2 days, and did not impact other stage follicles at any other time point. VC was determined to spontaneously liberate from PM, which could contribute to degradation of PM during storage. Taken together, this study demonstrates that PM and VC are ovotoxicants, with different follicular targets, and that the VC may be a major player during PM-induced ovotoxicity observed in cancer survivors.

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This is a manuscript of an aritcle published as Madden, Jill A., Patricia B. Hoyer, Patrick J. Devine, and Aileen F. Keating. "Involvement of a volatile metabolite during phosphoramide mustard-induced ovotoxicity." Toxicology and applied pharmacology 277, no. 1 (2014): 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2014.03.006. Posted with permission.

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Jill A. Madden, Patricia B. Hoyer, Patrick J. Devine and Aileen F. Keating. "Involvement of a volatile metabolite during phosphoramide mustard-induced ovotoxicity" Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology Vol. 277 Iss. 1 (2014) p. 1 - 7
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