Abstract #M145

# M145
Combined intestine toxicity effects of aflatoxin (AF)B1 and AFM1 in mice.
Muchen Zhang1,2, Nan Zheng1,2, Jiaqi Wang*1,2, 1State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, 2Milk Product Risk Assessment Laboratory of China Ministry of Agriculture (Beijing), Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.

Food crops are easily to be contaminated by aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), which is more commonly encountered and considered to have most toxicity among the types of aflatoxins. When AFB1 is ingested by dairy cows in contaminated feed, undergoes liver biotransformation and is converted into aflatoxin M1 (AFM1), which is excreted in milk. Because of this, when contaminated cereal and dairy products are ingested together, people will face the simultaneous exposure risk of AFB1 and AFM1. Studies confirmed that there is an increasing awareness of the deleterious effects of aflatoxins during their fate within the gastrointestinal tract (GIT). This study employed ICR (CD-1) mice (aged 4 wk) to investigate the combined intestine toxicity effects of AFB1 and AFM1. After acclimation, the mice were randomized into 4 groups of 10 each and received an oral administration of 0.5 mg/kg of BW AFB1, 3.5 mg/kg of BW AFM1, mixture of AFB1 and AFM1 (0.5 mg/kg of BW AFB1, 3.5 mg/kg of BW AFM1) and vehicle for 4 weeks (once a day), then blood and intestine were collected. The concentration of diamine oxidase (DAO), citrulline (Cit), intestinal fatty acid binding protein (I-FABP), d-lactate in serum and histomorphology, apoptosis analysis of duodenum, jejunum and ileum were measured. Statistical analysis was carried out by SAS 9.4 software. The results showed individual or combination of AFB1 and AFM1 did not affect body weight of mice significantly. And individual of AFB1 or AFM1 did not affect the concentration of Cit, I-FABP, and d-lactate in serum, but combined of AFB1 and AFM1 increased the DAO, I-FABP, and d-lactate in serum significantly. Individual of AFB1 or AFM1 increased the apoptosis ratio of cells in duodenum, jejunum, and ileum slightly, but combined of AFB1 and AFM1 increased it significantly. These results demonstrated that compared with individual of AFB1 or AFM1, combined of AFB1 and AFM1 could increase intestinal mucosa permeability and induce apoptosis of intestinal cells, which could provide basic information for further study of the combined intestinal toxicity effects of AFB1 and AFM1.

Key Words: aflatoxin B1, aflatoxin M1, toxicity