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Hematological Effects of 2',3'-Dideoxycytidine in Rabbits

Julia H. Riley

Department of Toxicology and Pathology, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey 07110

Alberto Davidovich

Department of Toxicology and Pathology, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey 07110

Jack M. Lipman

Department of Toxicology and Pathology, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey 07110

Reynaldo Arceo

Department of Toxicology and Pathology, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey 07110

Timothy D. Anderson

Department of Toxicology and Pathology, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey 07110

The antiviral nucleoside analogue 2',3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC) is a DNA chain terminator and/or inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reverse transcriptase. We evaluated the effects of ddC in 36 New Zealand white rabbits. Three/sex were assigned to a control group and 5 treatment groups (10-250 mg/kg/ day) for 13 or 18 weeks. Blood samples were taken 1 week prior to treatment and weekly thereafter to termination with the exception of the 2 highest dose groups, where blood sample collection was terminated at week 13. Selected hematological analytes were measured weekly with the exception of prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT). PT and APTT and selected biochemical analytes were measured prior to treatment, at 7 weeks, and after 13 weeks of treatment. All rabbits were necropsied. Giemsa and hematoxylin and eosin sections were prepared from methacrylate-embedded marrow. Hematological effects included decreases in red blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and white blood cell count and increases in mean corpuscular volume and red cell distribution width. Platelets, platelet volume, PT, APTT, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration values were variable or unchanged. Effects were dose-related, most were seen at 1 week, and they persisted to term. Bone marrow histopathologic changes included megalocytosis, erythroid hypoplasia, bizarre erythroid nuclear morphology, nuclear-cytoplasmic asynchrony, and increased mitotic figures. Lymphopenia caused by ddC plateaued at 2 weeks and persisted until termination. Heteropenia (neutropenia) was sporadic. Biochemical values for serum analytes were unchanged by treatment. The principal hematological effect of ddC upon the erythron was characterized as a nonregenerative macrocytic anemia with erythroid hypoplasia and megaloblastic erythropoiesis. We consider the anemia to be of bone marrow origin because of the morphologic changes observed here and produced by the effect of ddC on DNA synthesis in erythroid precursors and/or stromal cells.

Key Words: Nonregenerative macrocytic anemia • erythroid hypoplasia • megaloblastic erythropoiesis

Toxicologic Pathology, Vol. 20, No. 3-1, 367-375 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/019262339202000307
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