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A transplacental carcinogenicity bioassay in CD-1 mice with zidovudine.
In oral carcinogenicity bioassays, zidovudine (ZDV) induced vaginal epithelial cell tumors in mice given 30 or 40 mg/kg/day and rats given 300 mg/kg/day. To determine if lifetime exposure to ZDV, beginning perinatally, would alter this pattern of carcinogenicity, two groups of 60 pregnant CD-1 mice were given 20 or 40 mg/kg/day of ZDV in 0.5% methyl cellulose from Gestation Day 10 through Lactation Day 21. At weaning, 2 pups per sex from each of 35 litters in each group were assigned to the study and given 20 or 40 mg/kg/day of ZDV in the drinking water until 17-35 days of age, followed by daily gavage for 24 months. Two additional groups of 60 pregnant CD-1 mice each were given 40 mg/kg/day of ZDV daily from Gestation Day 10 through Lactation Day 21; in one, ZDV treatment was halted at weaning and in the other, treatment was stopped 90 days after weaning. Two other groups of 60 pregnant CD-1 mice were left untreated (environmental control) or were given 0.5% methyl cellulose beginning on Gestation Day 10 (vehicle control). Vehicle control progeny received plain drinking water for 17-35 days postweaning and then 0.5% methyl cellulose daily by gavage for 24 months. ZDV treatment did not affect survival or body weight in either sex. In females given 20 or 40 mg/kg/day of ZDV for 24 months there was mild macrocytic anemia. Similar, non-dose-related changes were seen in males in these groups. ZDV-related tumor findings were limited to the vagina, where there were 2 and 11 vaginal squamous cell carcinomas in mice given 20 or 40 mg/kg/day of ZDV daily, respectively. This incidence was not remarkably different from that seen in previously reported bioassays. It was concluded that lifetime oral treatment of mice with ZDV, beginning perinatally, did not alter the previously reported pattern of carcinogenicity and that under the conditions tested ZDV was not a transplacental carcinogen.
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