In rat and monkey repeated-dose toxicity studies up to 9-months duration, the primary target organ effects were identified in the gastrointestinal tract (emesis and diarrhoea in monkeys), adrenal gland (cortical congestion and/ or haemorrhage in rats and monkeys, with necrosis followed by fibrosis in rats), haemolymphopoietic system (bone morrow hypocelularity, and lymphoid depletion of thymus, spleen, and lymph node), exocrine pancreas (acinar cell degranulation with single cell necrosis), salivary gland (acinar hypertrophy), bone joint (growth plate thickening), uterus (atrophy) and ovaries (decreased follicular development).
Študije toksičnosti ponavljajočih se odmerkov pri podganah in opicah, ki so trajale do 9 mesecev, so ugotovile učinke na primarnih tarčnih organih v prebavilih (bruhanje in diareja pri opicah), nadledvičnih žlezah (kortikalna kongestija in/ ali krvavitev pri podganah in opicah, pri podganah z nekrozo, ki ji je sledila fibroza), hematolimfopoetskem sistemu (hipercelularnost kostnega mozga ter limfoidno izčrpanje timusa, vranice in bezgavk), eksokrinem pankreasu (degranulacija acinarnih celic z nekrozo posamičnih celic), žlezah slinavkah (acinarna hipertrofija), kosteh in sklepih (zadebelitev rastne ploščice), maternici (atrofija) in jajčnikih (zmanjšano nastajanje foliklov). Vsi izsledki so se