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Egypt. J. Zool., 70: 1- 12 (Dec, 2018) www.almanhal.com → e Journals → Science & Technical → Egypt. J. Zool.,
DOI: 10.12816/ejz.2018.26954
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THE TOXIC EFFECT OF MULTI WALL CARBON NANOTUBES ON SWISS
ALBINO RAT
Safaa Gh. El-Sayed, Neamat H. Ahmed*, Kawkab A. Ahmed**, Aliaa M. Issa
Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University.
*National Center for Radiation Research and Technology-Egyptian Atomic Authority.
** Pathology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University.
ABSTRACT
Production and usage of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have widely
increased over the last years. Nanoparticles with their sizes below 100 nm are able to enter
and be stored in organs (such as liver, lung, testes and brain) and caused toxic effects. The
aim of the present study is to investigate the MWCNTs toxicity, if any, on liver tissue. A
total number of fifteen male albino rats were used in the present study; five rats as control
and ten rats were intravenous injected with a single dose of MWCNTs (30 mg/ kg body
weight, 20-50 nm in diameter and 1 µm in length). Histopatholgical, histochemical,
apoptotic, necrotic and ultra-structure studies were carried out in the present work. The
results showed different histopathological changes on liver tissues of MWCNTs-treated rats,
such as focal hepatic necrosis with inflammatory cells infiltration, hydropic degeneration of
hepatocytes, and some increases in collagen fibers deposition in the portal area after 28 days
of MWCNTs injection. High appearance of necrotic and apoptotic cells was also noticed.
Ultrastructure study of liver tissue of rats treated with MWCNTs showed abnormal
hepatocytes with irregular nuclear envelope and nuclear chromatin material, swollen and
fused mitochondria with destructed cristae, lysis of some cytoplasmic organelles and rupture
of the endoplasmic reticulum. Shrunken nucleus and abundance of vacuoles and lysosome
were also observed in the hepatocytes. It could be concluded that MWCNTs have a toxic
effect on liver tissue and hepatocytes of rats.
Keywords: Carbon nanotubes; Nanoparticles; Toxicity; Liver tissue.
INTRODUCTION
Nanoparticles (NPs) can be used in medicine for cancer treatment,
infectious diseases, and diagnostic procedures with new imaging sensors and agent
(Kagan et al., 2005; Shvedova et al.,2009). In general, the NPs have usually been made
from transition metals, silicon, metal oxides, and different forms of carbon (carbon
nanotubes and fullerenes). Inorganic NPs do not include carbon atom while carbon
nanotubes and carbon fullerenes are titled as organic NPs (Ferreira et al., 2013).
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted much more industrial interest because of their
unique properties (Kaiser et al., 2011). They could be manufactured as single- or multi-
walled tubes. The majority of diameters of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs ( are
less than 10 nm, while those of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are generally
above 20 nm up to 150 nm (Hou et al., 2003; Donaldson et al., 2006).
CNTs have been used in biomedical engineering, tissue engineering, drug delivery, gene
therapy, biosensors, cancer therapy, vaccine delivery, imaging and diagnostics (Spana et al.,
2012). There are increasing probabilities for humans to contact CNTs as a result of their wide
applications in the biomedical and material science field. Production and usage of MWCNTs
have widely increased over the last years and nanoparticles with their sizes below 100 nm are
able to enter and be stored in organs such as liver, lung, testes, and brain, causing toxic
influences (Dan and Wan, 2016).
The aim of the present study is to investigate the toxicity of MWCNTs on liver of male
albino rats as being a vital organ as there is a scarcity of researches on this subject.
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MATERIAL AND METHODS
Animals
Fifteen (15) healthy male albino rats (Rattus norvegicus) weighing 100-120 g, purchased
from the Egyptian Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (Cairo, Egypt),
were used in this study.
The animals were housed in specially designed individual plastic cages, five per cage,
under standard conditions of 12-h light /12-h dark cycle, normal temperature, good ventilation
and humidity range. The animals were provided with a pellet concentrated diet containing all
the necessary nutritive elements and tap water ad libitum. Animals were acclimatized to
laboratory conditions before starting, for fourteen (14) days, the experiment. They were
maintained according to the Ethics Committee of the National Research Center and in
accordance to the "Guide for the Care and use of Laboratory Animals " published by the US
National Institutes of Health (NIH publication No.85-23, 1996).
Characteristics and Preparation of MWCNTs
MWCNTs were obtained from the Egyptian Petroleum Research
Institute (EPRI). It was synthesized by using a chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method.
According to the product specification, MWCNTs are 1 µm in length and 20 – 50 nm in
diameter, their purity is > 93% and has impurities less than 7 %. The impurities are cobalt
oxide, magnesium oxide and amorphous carbon. MWCNTs were suspended in saline using
0.1 % Tween 80 and then sonicated for about 1 hour using ultra-sonic bath (Branson 1510,
England).
Experimental Design
Fifteen (15) healthy male albino rats were used in the whole study. They were divided
into two groups,
Group 1: sham untreated control rats (n=5).
Group 2: rats intravenous injected through the caudal vein by a single dose of 30 mg/kg bw
MWCNTs (n=10).
All the animals were euthanized after 7 and 28 days of MWCNTs injection.
Liver tissues were collected for histopathological, apoptotic and necrotic and ultra-
structure studies. Sections (4 – 5 ϻm) for histopathological study were stained with
haematoxylin and eosin stain (Bancroft and Gamble, 2002). Microscopic examined and a
number of photomicrographs were taken at known magnification using a light microscope
(OLYMPUS BX50). For histochemical study, the obtained tissue sections were stained by
Masson's trichome for the detection of collagen fibers deposition (Carson, 1990).
Apoptotic and necrotic detection were evaluated according to the method of Coligan
et al. (1995) and Ribble et al. (2005) using propidium iodide and acridine orange (PI/AO)
stains, tissue sections were examined and photographed with a fluorescent microscope.
Electron microscopic sections were prepared according to the method of Bancroft and
Gamble (2002) and examined and photographed using JEOL JEM.1010 transmission electron
microscope (TEM).
RESULTS
Histological and histopathological study
The liver of control group of male albino rat showed the normal histological structure
presented previously elsewhere (Fig. 1, A). Liver of rats treated with 20 – 50 nm MWCNTs
(30 mg/kg bw) showed hydropic degeneration of hepatocytes, focal hepatic necrosis
associated with inflammatory cells infiltration and abundance of Küpffer cells(Fig. 1, B and
C) after 7 days of MWCNTs injection. Same changes were observed when the rats were
treated with the same dose and studied after 28 days (Fig. 1, E). Cytoplasmic vacuolation of
centro lobular hepatocytes (Fig. 1, D), dilatation and congestion of hepatic sinusoids (Fig. 1,
F) and a massive infiltration of portal area with inflammatory cells (Fig. 1, G) were also
detected.
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Collagen fiber deposition in the liver tissue
Light microscopic examination of liver sections of the control rats stained with Masson's
trichrome showed normal distribution of the collagen fibers supporting the walls of the blood
vessel, and around the hepatocytes (Fig. 2, A) . Liver of rat treated with 20 – 50 nm
MWCNTs (30 mg/kg bw) exhibited some increase in the collagen fibers deposition of the
portal area (stained blue) (Fig. 2, B) on day 7 after MWCNTs injection. Normal collagen
fibers deposition surrounding the hepatocytes was also observed, while after 28 days of
treatment, some increase was noticed in the central vein wall (Fig. 2, C) and in the portal area
(Fig.2, D).
Apoptosis and necrosis detection
Apoptotic and necrotic changes were stained by PI/AO Compartments are represented in
the liver tissue of normal untreated rat by a vital green fluorescent tissue cells (Fig. 3, A).
Liver sections of rats treated with 20 – 50 nm MWCNTs (30 mg/kg bw) and examined after 7
days of injection showed high appearance of necrotic (orange cells) and apoptotic (bright
yellow cells) hepatocytes (Fig. 3, B). The aforementioned high apoptotic appearance of
hepatocytes was also noticed after 28 days of treatment (Fig. 3, C).
Ultra structure study of the liver tissue
Electron micrographs of liver sections of control rat showed normal hepatocytes, as
well as nucleus, mitochondria, lysosomes and rough endoplasmic reticulum (Fig. 4, A).
While those treated with 30 mg/kg bw MWCNTs after 7 days displayed rupture in some
areas of the endoplasmic reticulum, swollen electron dense and fused mitochondria with
ruptured membranes and degenerated cristae. Also, abnormal nucleus with irregular nuclear
envelope and nuclear chromatin condensation was observed. Vacuoles and lysis of some
cytoplasmic organelles were also apparent (Fig. 4, B & C). After 28 days of the same
treatment, shrunken nuclei, red blood cells, ill- defined mitochondria with ruptured
membranes and deteriorated cristae, abundant lysosomes and vacuoles were also observed in
the hepatocytes (Fig. 4, D & E).
DISCUSSION
There are increasing possibilities for humans to contact CNTs because of their
extensive applications in the field of biomedical and material science. MWCNTs have
potential applications in many diverse commercial processes, and thus human exposures are
possible.
The histopathological alterations observed in the liver of rats treated with 30 mg/kg bw
MWCNTs, in the present study, were summarized as cytoplasmic vacuolation of hepatocytes,
focal hepatic necrosis associated with inflammatory cells infiltration as well as dilatation and
congestion of hepatic sinusoids, abundance of Küpffer cells, in addition to portal infiltration
with inflammatory cells, compared to control liver.
Liver sections of rats stained with Masson's trichrome showed also increased collagen
fiber deposition in the portal area, while, normal collagen fiber deposition were supporting
walls of the blood vessels, central veins and around the hepatocytes. On the other hand,
examination of liver tissues under fluorescent microscope showed a high appearance of
apoptotic and necrotic hepatocytes.
The ultrastructure examination of liver hepatocytes treated with 30 mg/kg bw
MWCNTs showed swollen and fused mitochondria with rupture of their cristae, rupture and
lysis of the endoplasmic reticulum cisternae as well as abnormal nucleus with irregular
nuclear envelope and abnormal nuclear chromatin material were noticed after 7 days of the
MWCNTs injection. In addition to the stated observations, ill-defined mitochondria, dilated
blood sinusoid with red blood cell, shrunken nucleus, abundance of vacuolation and
lysosomes were also detected after 28 days of the MWCNTs injection compared to control
group.
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These results are in accordance with Zhang et al. (2018), who studied the effects of
MWCNTs on the liver of adult mice and their offspring. They observed histopathological
changes in the liver tissues of the mice offspring. The hepatocytes of female treated mice
were loose and highly vacuolated, while their offspring liver showed irregular arrangement of
liver cells, hepatic sinus dilation, unclear lobular structure, significant inflammatory cell
infiltration, and some lipid droplets.
These results were also in agreement with Zhang et al (2017), who demonstrated that
pristine multi-walled carbon nanotubes (P-MWCNTs) induced high level of inflammation.
They also summarized that P-MWCNTs could cause different degrees of pathological injury
in the liver of mice such as, structural disorder of liver lobules and loss of some sinusoidal
space, mild sinusoidal congestion and mild vacuolar degeneration of hepatocytes.
In addition, Hougaard et al. (2013) showed microfoci of necrosis, enlargement of
single hepatocytes, increased number of Küpffer cells and binucleated hepatocytes in
experimental animals exposed to MWCNTs compared to the control liver. Ji et al. (2009)
showed severe inflammatory cell infiltration in the portal region, cellular and focal necrosis
at a dose of 60 mg/kg MWCNTs dispersed in Tween-80 (T-MWCNT).Moreover, Awasthi et
al. (2013), demonstrated the histopathological changes of the liver of Swiss albino mice
exposed to MWCNTs showing remarkable morphological alterations such as individual cell
necrosis indicated by karyorrhexis as well as sinusoid dilation, hepatocyte disruption,
vacuolation, swelling, fatty changes, hemorrhagic clots and necrotic changes when compared
to controls. Many studies showed also that MWCNTs can induce inflammation, fibrosis and
angiogenesis (Boyles et al., 2015).
It is well known that the liver is the first organ to encounter ingested nutrients,
vitamins, drugs, metals and environmental toxicants that enter portal blood. The functions of
liver can be destructively altered by liver injury resulting from chronic or acute exposure to
toxicants (Klaassen and Watkins, 2015). Because the liver is a reticuloendothelial system
organ, nanoparticles entering circulation mostly accumulate in the liver cells and are
primarily taken up by macrophages of the liver, where they activate an inflammatory
response through an oxidative stress mediated mechanism (Ahmad et al., 2012). These cells
participate in acute and chronic responses of liver to toxic compounds (Roberts et al., 2007).
The later authors added that activation of Küpffer cells by toxic agents both directly and
indirectly resulted in releasing an array of inflammatory responses. It should be taken into
consideration that CNTs may damage or interfere with DNA (Lam et al., 2006; Kolonsiaj et
al., 2007) and this could explain the observed damage in the liver tissue, high appearance of
apoptotic and necrotic hepatocytes, due to the treatment with MWCNTs. Apoptotic bodies
derived from the damaged hepatocytes can activate quiescent stellate and Küpffer cells, and
these activated cell populations can in turn promote inflammatory and fibrogenic responses
(Lee et al., 2011).
It has been found that CNTs entered the liver via the circulation and were taken up by
Küpffer cells being a part of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Küpffer cells are the
resident macrophages of liver and play an important role in its normal physiology and
homeostasis. The activation appears to control the acute hepatocyte injury along with chronic
liver responses (Roberts et al., 2007).
On the other hand, many previous studies have pointed out that reactive oxygen species
(ROS) is a key player, which mediates many of the effects of nanomaterials. In vitro study
also showed that the toxicity of MWCNTs to the hepatocyte cell line was at least in part
mediated by reactive oxygen species/oxidative stress (Kermanizadeh et al., 2012).
Both in vitro and in vivo studies have shown that nanoparticles are strongly associated
with toxicity by increasing the level of pro-inflammatory mediators and/or intracellular ROS
levels. Nanoparticles are also known to up-regulate the transcription of various pro-
inflammatory genes, including tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) and IL (interleukins)-1, IL-6
and IL-8, by activating nuclear factor-kappa B (NF κB) signaling. These sequential
molecular and cellular events are known to cause oxidative stress, followed by severe cellular
genotoxicity and then programmed cell death (Khanna et al., 2015). This finding supports
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and explain the observation of apoptotic and necrotic cells in the liver of MWCNTs of the
studied groups.
Kam and Dai, (2005) reported that CNTs can be internalized by clathrin mediated
endocytosis. Clathrin-coated pits are formed under the plasma membrane when CNTs come
in contact with cells, then each pit forms a vesicle inside the cell .The lysosomes act as the
waste removal system of the cell by digesting undesirable materials in the cytoplasm, from
outside and inside the cell. Material from outside the cell is taken-up through endocytosis
(Mindell, 2012). This finding supports the abundance of lysosomes in liver hepatocytes
observed by TEM in the present study.
Xu et al. (2016) imaged the uptake of MWCNTs was imaged by TEM in vitro and
showed that MWCNTs accumulated in the mitochondria of GC-2pd (the mice spermatocyte
cell line) caused potential mitochondrial DNA damage, and decreased oxygen consumption
rate of the cells compared to control group. They also found that the ATP content detected in
GC-2pd cells treated with MWCNTs was lower than control cells in addition to Jiang et al.
(2013) found that functionalized MWCNTs via carboxylation (MWCNTs-COOH) have a
cytotoxic effect and induced apoptotic cell death of macrophages in vitro. They showed that
MWCNTs-COOH induced the release of cytochrome C from mitochondria to the cytosol,
increased the expression of pro-apoptosis Bcl-2 proteins and suppressed the expression of
pro-survival Bcl-2 proteins.
Fang et al. (2018), studied also the in vivo effect of MWCNTs on liver hepatocytes in
male mice using TEM and found that mitochondrial abnormalities, included reduction,
disorganization, and fractures. They found also that MWCNTs have oxidative stress by
producing ROS and genotoxic effect. Excess production of ROS destroyed the antioxidant
defence system and resulted in many sub-cellular injuries, including membrane damage,
protein denaturation and DNA damage (Nel et al., 2006). This finding supports the
ultrastructure results observed in hepatocytes of the present study.
This study may conclude that MWCNTs intravenous injected in male albino rats
showed some histopathological changes to the liver tissue, increased collagen fiber
deposition in portal area and may also cause apoptosis of liver cells. MWCNTs have also a
toxic effect on mitochondria of hepatic cells studied by TEM.
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EXPLANATION OF FIGURES
Fig. 1: (A): Light micrographs of liver sections of control rats showing normal hepatocytes
(arrow), centrilobular vein (CV), blood sinusoids and Küppfer cells ( ) (B) & (C): Liver of
rat treated with 30 mg/kg bw MWCNTs, after 7 days of MWCNTs injection showing
hydropic degeneration of hepatocytes ( ), abundant Küppfer cells ( ) and focal hepatic
necrosis associated with inflammatory cells infiltration ( ). (D, E, F & G): Liver of rat
treated with 30 mg/kg bw MWCNTs, after 28 days of MWCNTs injection (D): showing
cytoplasmic vacuolation of centro lobular hepatocytes (curved arrow). (E): showing hydropic
degeneration of hepatocytes ( ), abundant Küppfer cells ( ) and focal hepatic necrosis
associated with inflammatory cells infiltration ( ). (F): showing dilatation and congested of
hepatic sinusoids ( ). (G): showing massive infiltration of portal area with inflammatory cells
( ). (H&E X 400).
Fig. 2: Photomicrographs of liver sections of rats. (A): Control liver section showing normal
distribution of collagen fibers around the central vein and hepatocytes. (B), (C) & (D): Liver
sections of rats treated with 20 – 50 nm MWCNTs (30 mg/kg bw) after 7 days of MWCNTs
injection (B): showing some increase in collagen fibers deposition in the portal area ( ).
After 28 days of MWCNTs injection (C): showing normal distribution of collagen fibers
surrounding the hepatocyte ( ) (D): showing some increase in collagen fiber deposition
around central vein and bile duct ( ). (Masson trichome stain, X 400 for all micrographs).
Fig. 3: Fluorescent photomicrograph of liver of rat showing (A): Control liver with viable
green cells in liver tissue. (B) & (C): Liver tissue treated with 30 mg/kg bw MWCNTs (B):
High appearance of ) after )) and apoptotic hepatocytes (bright yellow color) )necrotic )
hepatocytes at 28 days )7 days of MWCNTs injection. (C): Apoptotic after treatment.
(PI/AO stain, X250).
Fig. 4 :Electron micrographs of lhepatocytes of rat liver showing (A): normal
hepatocytes, nucleus (N),nucleolus (Nu), mitochondria (M), lysosomes (Ly) and rough
endoplasmic reticulum (rER). (B), (C), (D) & (E) Liver of rat treated with 30mg/kg bw
MWCNTs, after 7 days of MWCNTs injection (B): Ruptured endoplasmic reticulum
(rER), swollen electron dense and fused mitochondria with rupture of some
mitochondrial membranes and cristae (M), abnormal nuclear structure (N) with irregular
nuclear envelope and nuclear chromatin material. (C): Mitochondria with some ruptured
cristae (M), vacuoles (V) and lysis of ), after 28 days of MWCNTs injection )some
cytoplasmic organells (D): Dilated blood sinusoid (BS) with presence of red blood cell
(RBC), ill-defined mitochondria (M) and vacuoles (V) & (E): Shrunken nucleus (N), ill-
defined mitochondria (M), lysosomes (Ly) , and vacuoles (V).
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عضاء ألعض انانومتر لها القدرة ان تدخل و تختزن ب 111قل من ألحجام األوالمواد النانونية ذات ا خيرةألا
راسة إلى عضاء .لذلك تهدف هذه الدألمثل الكبد والرئة والخصيتين والدماغ و وتسبب تأثير سام على هذه ا
فى ذكور يا الكبدالعلى انسجة و خ _إن وجدت -بحث مدى سمية أنابيب الكربون النانونية متعددة الجدران
الجرذان السويسرية البيضاء ،.
( (5ةسالجرذان البيضاء خم من ذكور ((15 عدد خمسة عشر في هذه الدراسة ، تم إستخدام
مللى جرام لكل ( (31 ا بجرعة وحيدة من أنابيب الكربونيوريد ( (10كمجموعة ضابطة وتم حقن عشرة
ميكرومتر. 1نانومتر و طولها 21-نابيب ألكيلو جرام من وزن الجسم لكل جرذ) ، حيث كان قطرهذه ا
ستماتية ، والنخرية ، و فحص التركيب إلواستخدمت الدراسات الهيستوباثولوجية ، والنسيجية الكيميائية ، و ا
لكتروني النافذ .إليا الكبد باستخدام المجهر االالدقيق لخ
سيجية ثيرات نيوًما من حقن أنابيب الكربون النانونية متعددة الجدران ، وجد أن لها تأ 28و 7بعد و
ائى لتنكس الملتهابية ، االيا االمختلفة على أنسجة كبد الجرذان ، مثل النخر الكبدي البؤري مع ارتشاح الخ
ظهور نسبة جين في المنطقة البابية للكبد. كما لوحظالالكبد ، وبعض الزيادة في ترسب ألياف الكو يااللخ
يا اللنافذ لخلكترونى اإلطريق الفحص باستخدام المجهر ايا المتحلله. كما أظهرت الدراسة عن العاٍلية من الخ
دريا يا الكبد و من بعض مظاهر هذا الخلل وجود ميتوكونالالكبد، وجود خلل و مظاهر غير طبيعية فى خ
انب زمية. إلى جالندوبإلمنتفخة ذات جدران متمزقة ، وتحلل لبعض عضيات الخلية وتمزقات في الشبكة ا
وفرة من واة أخرى ذات جدار غير منتظم و مادة نووية غير طبيعية . كما لوحظ أيضاظهور نواة منكمشة و ن
الفجوات والليسوسومات.
ير سام على أنسجةمن هذه الدراسة يستنتج أن أنابيب الكربون النانونية متعددة الجدران ذات تأث
بيضاء.يا الكبدية في ذكور الجرذان السويسرية الالالكبد والخ