A weight of evidence assessment of the genotoxicity of 2,6-xylidine based on existing and new data, with relevance to safety of lidocaine exposure

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Lidocaine has not been associated with cancer in humans despite 8 decades of therapeutic use. Its metabolite, 2,6-xylidine, is a rat carcinogen, believed to induce genotoxicity via N-hydroxylation and DNA adduct formation, a non-threshold mechanism of action. To better understand this dichotomy, we review literature pertaining to metabolic activation and genotoxicity of 2,6-xylidine, identifying that it appears resistant to N-hydroxylation and instead metabolises almost exclusively to DMAP (an aminophenol). At high exposures (sufficient to saturate phase 2 metabolism), this may undergo metabolic threshold-dependent activation to a quinone-imine with potential to redox cycle producing ROS, inducing cytotoxicity and genotoxicity. A new rat study found no evidence of genotoxicity in vivo based on micronuclei in bone marrow, comets in nasal tissue or female liver, despite high level exposure to 2,6-xylidine (including metabolites). In male liver, weak dose-related comet increases, within the historical control range, were associated with metabolic overload and acute systemic toxicity. Benchmark dose analysis confirmed a non-linear dose response. The weight of evidence indicates 2,6-xylidine is a non-direct acting (metabolic threshold-dependent) genotoxin, and is not genotoxic in vivo in rats in the absence of acute systemic toxic effects, which occur at levels 35 × beyond lidocaine-related exposure in humans.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:119

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Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP - 119(2021) vom: 25. Feb., Seite 104838

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kirkland, David J [VerfasserIn]
Sheil, Meredith L [VerfasserIn]
Streicker, Michael A [VerfasserIn]
Johnson, George E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2,6-Xylidine
2,6-xylidine
4FT62OX08D
98PI200987
Anesthetics, Local
Aniline Compounds
Genotoxicity
Journal Article
Lidocaine
Mutagens
Review
Weight of evidence assessment

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Date Completed 05.08.2021

Date Revised 05.08.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.yrtph.2020.104838

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318672413