Freshly prepared rat hepatocytes used in screening the toxicity of blue‐green algal blooms
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health
- Vol. 20 (1-2) , 187-197
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15287398709530971
Abstract
The acute toxicity of extracts of blue‐green algae was tested in freshly prepared rat hepatocytes in suspension. The results were compared with the traditional in vivo mouse bioassay. Sixty samples of natural algal blooms from freshwater lakes in Norway, Sweden, and Finland and 14 samples cultured in the laboratory were tested. The mouse bioassay revealed hepatotoxins in a large number of the algae, while neurotoxins were not found. Acute hepatotoxicity in vitro was scored by measurement of leakage of the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from damaged cells and of morphological changes of the cells. The correlation coefficients between mouse toxicity and LDH, mouse toxicity and morphological cell damage, and between LDH and morphological cell damage were 0.812, 0.735, and 0.882, respectively. Consequently, the rat hepatocyte toxicity test seems to be well suited for screening blooms of blue‐green algae for the presence of hepatotoxins.Keywords
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