Genotoxicity of the herbicides alachlor and maleic hydrazide in cultured human lymphocytes

Mutagenesis

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-227

  Ribas, G ^a   Surralles J ^b   Carbonell, E ^a   Xamena, N ^a   Creus, A ^a   Marcos, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; CLASTOGEN; HERBICIDE; MALEIC HYDRAZIDE; S 9;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MICRONUCLEUS; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

ACETAMIDES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALEIC HYDRAZIDE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENICITY TESTS; MUTAGENS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029940825     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/11.3.221     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Andersen,K.J, Leighty,E.G. and Takahashi,M.T. (1972) Evaluation of herbicides for possible mutagenic properties. J. Agric. Food Chem., 20, 649-656.
2. Brown,L.M., Blair,A., Gibson,R., Everett,G.D., Cantor,K.P., Schuman,L.M., Burmeister,L.F., Van Lier,S.F. and Dick,F. (1990) Pesticide exposures and other agricultural risk factors for leukemia among men in Iowa and Minnesota. Cancer Res., 50, 6585-6591.
3. Cabral,J.R.P. and Ponomarkov,V. (1982) Carcinogenicity study of the pesticide maleic hydrazide in mice. Toticology. 24, 169-173.
4. Carrano,A.V. and Natarajan,A.T. (1988) Considerations for population monitoring using cytogenetic techniques. Mutat. Res., 204, 379-406.
5. De Marco,A., Testa,V and Trinca,S. (1988) Applications of the micronucleus test to Vicia faba root tips treated with different herbicides. Generics (Life Sci. Adv.), 7, 87-89.
6. De Marco,A., Boccardi,P , De Simone,C., Piccolo,A., Raglione,M., Testa,A. and Trinca,S. (1990) Induction of micronuclei in Vicia faba root-tips treated in different soils with the herbicide alachlor. Mutat. Res , 241, 1-6.
7. De Marco,A., De Simone,C., Ragglione,M., Testa,A. and Trinca,S. (1992) Importance of the type of soil for the induction of micronuclei and the growth of primary roots of Vicia faba treated with the herbicides atrazine, glyphosphate and maleic hydrazide. Mutat. Res., 279, 9-13.
8. Eisenbeis,S.J., Lynch,D.L. and Hample,A.E. (1981) Ames mutation assay tested against herbicides and herbicide combinations. Soil Sci., 131, 44-47.
9. Evans,H.J. and Scolt,D. (1964) Influence of DNA synthesis on the production of chromatid aberrations by X-rays and maleic hydrazide in Vicia faba. Genetics, 49, 17-38.
10. Fenech,M. and Morley,A.A. (1985) Measurement of micronuclei in lymphocytes. Mutat. Res., 147, 29-36.
11. Garrett,N.E., Stack,H.F. and Waters,M.D. (1986) Evaluation of the genetic activity profiles of 65 pesticides. Mutat. Res., 168, 301-325.
12. Georgian,J., Moraru,I., Draghicescu,T., Dinu,I. and Ghizelea,G. (1983) Cytogenetic effects of alachlor and mancozeb. Mutat. Res., 116, 341-348.
13. González-Gil,G. and Navarrete,M.H. (1986) Induction of SCE by maleic hydrazide throughout the cell cycle. Mutat. Res., 163, 57-61.
14. Kiblman,B.A. (1956) Factors affecting the production of chromosome aberrations by chemicals. J. Biophys. Biochem. Cytol., 2, 543-555.
15. Kihlman,B A (1975) Root tips of Vicia faba for the study of the induction of chromosomal aberrations. Mutat. Res., 31. 401-412.
16. Kihlman,B.A., Sturelid,S., Hartley-Asp,B. and Nilsson,K. (1973) Caffeine potentiation of the chromosome damage produced in plant root tips and in Chinese hamster cells by various chemical and physical agents. Mutat. Res., 17, 271-275.
17. Lamberti,L., Bigatti Ponzetto,P. and Ardito,G. (1983) Cell kinetics and sister chromatid exchange frequency in human lymphocytes. Mutat. Res., 120, 193-199.
18. Lin,M.F., Wu,C.L. and Wang,T.C. (1987) Pesticide clastogenicity in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Mutat. Res., 188, 241-250.
19. Marcus,W.L. (1987) Alachlor: health advisory. Toxicol. Ind. Hlth, 3, 383-396.
20. Meisner,L.F., Belluck,D.A. and Roloff,B.D. (1992) Cytogenetic effects of alachlor and/or atraznie in vivo and in vitro. Environ. Mol. Mutagen., 19, 77-82.
21. Meschini,R., Quaranta,M.T., Fiore,M., Polcaro,C., Possagno,E. and Palitti,F. (1988) Chromosomal damage induced by maleic hydrazide in mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. Mutat. Res., 204, 645-648.
22. Morita,T. Nagaku,T. Fukuda,I. and Okumura,K. (1992) Clastogenicity of low pH to various cultured mammalian cells. Mutat. Res., 268, 297-305.
23. Nasrat,G.E. (1965) Maleic hydrazide, a chemical mutagen in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature, 207, 439.
24. Perry,P. and Evans,H.J (1975) Cytological detection of mutagen-carcinogen exposure by sister chromatid exchanges. Nature. 258, 121-125.
25. Perry,P. and Wolff,S. (1974) New Giemsa method for the differential staining of sister chromatids. Nature, 251, 156-158.
26. Plewa,M.J. (1978) Activation of chemicals into mutagens by green plants, a preliminary discussion. Environ. Hlth Perspect., 27, 45-50.
27. Plewa,M.J., Wagner,E.D., Gentile,G.J. and Gentile,J.M. (1984) An evaluation of the genotoxic properties of herbicides following plant and animal activation Mutat. Res., 136, 233-245.
28. Ribas,G., Frenzilli,G., Barale,R. and Marcos,R. (1995) Herbicide-induced DNA damage in human lymphocytes evaluated by the single-cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE) assay. Mutat. Res., 344, 41-54.
29. Saftlas,A.F., Blair,A., Cantor,K.P., Hanrahan,L. and Anderson,H.A. (1987) Cancer and other causes of death among Wisconsin farmers Am. J. Ind. Med., 11, 119-129.
30. Shirasu,Y., Moriya,M., Tezuka,H., Teramoto,S., Ohta,T. and Inoue,T. (1982) Mutagemcity screening studies on pesticides. In Sugimura,T. Kondo,S. and Takeda,H. (eds). Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens. Alan R.Liss, New York, pp. 331-335
31. Singh,H.N., Singh,H.R. and Vaishampayan,A. (1979) Toxic and mutagenic action of the herbicide alachlor (Lasso) on various strains of the nitrogen fixing blue-green alga Nostoc muscorum and characterization of the herbicide-induced mutants resistant to methylamine and L-methionine-DL-sulfoximine. Environ. Exp. Bol., 19, 5-12.
32. Sinha,S.P. (1989) Genotoxicity of pesticides. Perspect. Cytol. Genet., 6, 749-753.
33. Surrallés J., Carbonell,E., Marcos,I., Degrass,F., Antoccia,A. and Tanzarella,C. (1992) A collaborative study on the improvement of the micronucleus test in cultured human lymphocytes. Muragenesis. 7, 407-410.
34. Surralles,J., Xamena,N., Creus,A., Catala,J., Norppa,H. and Marcos,R. (1995a) Induction of micronuclei by five pyrethroid insecticides in whole blood and isolated human lymphocyte cultures. Mutat. Res., 341, 169-184.
35. Surrallés,J., Catalán,J., Creus,A., Norppa,H., Xamena,N. and Marcos,R. (1995b) Micronuclei induced by alachlor, mitomycin-C and vinblastine in human lymphocytes: presence of centromeres and kinetochores and influence of staining techniques. Mutagenesis, 10, 417-423.
36. Swietlinska,Z., and Zuk,J. (1978) Cytotoxic effects of mafeic hydrazide. Mutat. Res., 55, 15-30.
37. Takehisa,S. and Kanaya,N. (1983) A comparison of Vicia faba root S10 and rat-liver S9 activation of ethanol, maleic hydrazide and cyclophosphamide as measured ny sister-chromatid exchange induction in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Mutat. Res., 124, 145-151.
38. Tezuka,H., Ando,N., Suzuki,R., Terahata,M., Moriya,M. and Shirasu,Y. (1980) Sister-chromaud exchanges and chromosomal aberrations in cultured Chinese hamster cells created with pesticides positive in microbial reversion assays. Mutat. Res., 78, 184-191.
39. Torres,C., Ribas,G., Xamena,N., Creus,A. and Marcos,R. (1992) Genotoxicity of four herbicides in the Drosophila wing spot test. Mutat. Res., 280, 291-295.
40. Waters,M.D., Shandu,S.S., Simmon,V.E, Mortelmans,K.E., Mitchell,A.D., Jorgenson,T.A., Jones,D.C.L., Valencia,R. and Garrett,N.E. (1982) Study of pesticide genotoxicity. In Fleck,R. and Holiaender,A. (eds), Genetic Toxicology. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 275-326.
41. WHO (1985) Guidelines for the Study of Genetic Effects in Human Populations. Environmental Health Criteria 46, World Health Organization, Geneva.
42. Yang,D.P., Graupensperger,F., Minecci,L.C. and Rubin,B.A. (1981) Induction of sister chromatid exchanges in human diploid fibroblasts by mutagens with and without rat liver microsomal activation. Environ. Mutagen., 3, 45-52.