Introduction: Methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is used at contact chemical dissolution (CCD) of cholesterol gallstones since 1981. However no abroad, no in Russia on MTBE the sanction as on a medical product is not received.
Aim: to determine parameters of common toxicity MTBE at white mice.
Materials and methods: MTBE entered per se to white mice intrastomach (Litchfield-Wilcocson). Calculations of average lethal dozes carried out. Batching carried out on weight of substance, taking into account its density of 0.74 g/sm2, and expressed in mg/kg of weight of a body of animals. Research carried out together with Institute of toxicology (Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Results: The period of supervision was 14 days. Lethal, time of destruction, semiology of a poisoning carried out before introduction, for 7 and 14 days of supervision, opening and macroscopical research of all perishing and survived animals--at the end of research. The death of animals at intrastomach introduction of fatal dozes MTBE (more than 5 g/kg) was observed within 1.5-5 hours from the moment of introduction at the phenomena of slackness, devocalization and a paralysis. Semiology was of the deep narcotic intoxication. Opening of the died animals has revealed: attributes venous full bloods of the internal bodies, subpleural haemorrhages, fine haemorrhages in an oblong brain and the big hemispheres of a bark. At the animals receiving less 5 g/kg, in the first day block, slackness, drowsiness, decrease of consumption of a forage and water were marked. In other days they did not differ from those at animals of control group.
Conclusion: Sharp intrastomach introduction MTBE does not cause macroscopical changes internal and glandulars bodies, a brain, and also mucous of a stomach and an intestines.