Examination of various biomarkers measuring genotoxic endpoints from Barcelona airport personnel

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 440, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-204

  Pitarque, M ^a   Creus, A ^a   Marcos, R ^a   Hughes, J A ^b   Anderson, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BIBRA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airport worker; Comet assay; Micronucleus; Ras p21 protein; Sister chromatid exchange

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN;

ADULT; AIRPORT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; SPAIN;

AIR POLLUTANTS; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MUTAGENS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RAS PROTEINS; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; SMOKING; SPAIN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 0032946069     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(99)00026-1     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Dean B.J. Genetic toxicology of benzene, toluene, xylenes and phenols. Mutat. Res. 47:1978;75-97.
2. Dean B.J. Recent findings on the genetic toxicology of benzene, toluene, xylenes and phenols. Mutat. Res. 154:1985;153-181.
3. Fishbein L. Genetic effects of benzene, toluene and xylene. IARC Sci. Publ. 85:1988;19-46.
4. Snyder R., Witz G., Goldstein B.D. The toxicology of benzene. Environ. Health Perspect. 100:1993;293-306.
5. IPCS/WHO Environmental Health Criteria Document 150, Benzene, World Health Organization, Geneve, 1993.
6. A. Carere, R. Crebelli (Eds.), Biomonitoring of human populations exposed to petroleum fuels with special consideration of the role of benzene as a genotoxic component. Report of the EC Environment Programme, Project EV5V-CT92-0221, Serie Relazioni 97/4, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, 1997.
7. International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risks to humans, Genetic and Related Effects: an Updating of Selected IARC Monographs, Volumes 1-42, Suppl. 6, IARC, Lyon, 1987.
8. International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk to humans, Overall Evaluations of Carcinogenicity: an Updating of IARC Monographs, Volumes 1-42, Suppl. 7, IARC, Lyon, 1987.
9. OMS/WHO, Air quality guidelines, OMS, Copenhagen, 1987.
10. US EPA, IRIS File, US EPA, Washington, 1994.
11. International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risks to humans, Diesel and Gasoline Engine Exhausts and Some Nitroarenes, Vol. 46, IARC, Lyon, 1989.
12. T. Garlanda, Exposure limits at working place, Year 1990/1991; Commission of the European Communities, General Directorate Employment, Social Affairs and Education; Health and Safey Directorate, 1991.
13. International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC Monographs on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk to humans, Occupational Exposures in Petroleum Refining, Crude Oil and Major Petroleum Fuels, Vol. 45, IARC, Lyon, 1989.
14. Siemiatycki J., Dewar R., Nadon L., Gerin M., Richardson L., Wacholder S. Association between several sites of cancer and twelve petroleum delivered liquids: results from a case referent study in Montreal. Scand. J. Work Environ. Health. 13:1987;493-504.
15. Jakobsson R., Ahlbom A., Bellander T., Lundberg I. Acute myeloid leukemia among petrol station attendants. Arch. Environ. Health. 48:1993;255-259.
16. Pitarque M., Carbonell E., Lapeña N., Marsá M., Valbuena A., Creus A., Marcos R. SCE analysis in peripheral blood lymphocytes of a group of filling station attendants. Mutat. Res. 390:1997;153-159.
17. Perry P., Wolff S. New Giemsa method for the differential staining of sister chromatids. Nature. 251:1974;156-158.
18. Lamberti L., Bigatti Ponzetto P., Ardito G. Cell kinetics and sister-chromatid exchange frequency in human lymphocytes. Mutat. Res. 120:1983;193-199.
19. Pitarque M., Carbonell E., Lapeña N., Marsá M., Torres M., Creus A., Xamena N., Marcos R. No increase in micronuclei frequency in cultured blood lymphocytes from a group of filling station attendants. Mutat. Res. 367:1996;161-167.
20. Surrallés J., Xamena N., Creus A., Catalán J., Norppa H., Marcos R. Induction of micronuclei by five pyrethroid insecticides in whole-blood and isolated human lymphocyte cultures. Mutat. Res. 341:1995;169-184.
21. Singh N.P., Danner D.B., Tice R.R., Brant L., Schneider E.L. A simple technique for quantitation of low levels of DNA damage in individual cells. Exp. Cell. Res. 175:1988;184-191.
22. 131I Mutat. Res. 413:1998;111-119.
23. Anderson D., Yu T.-W., Phillips B.J., Schmezer P. The effects of various antioxidants and other modifying agents on oxygen-radical-generated DNA damage in human lymphocytes in the Comet assay. Mutat. Res. 307:1994;261-271.
24. Lowry O.H., Rosenbrough N.J., Farr A.L., Randall R.J. Protein measurement with Folin phenol reagent. J. Biol. Chem. 193:1951;265-275.
25. Brinkworth M.H., Yardley-Jones A., Edwards A.J., Hughes J.A., Anderson D. A comparison of smokers and non smokers with respect to oncogene products and cytogenetic parameters. J. Occup. Med. 34:1992;1181-1188.
26. Perera F.P., Hemminki K., Gryzbowska E., Motykiewicz G., Michalska H., Santella R.M., Young T.L., Dickey C., Brandt-Rauf P.W., DeVivo I., Blaner W., Tsai W.-Y., Chorazy M. Molecular and genetic damage in humans from environmental pollution in Poland. Nature. 35:1992;256-258.
27. Lemasters G.K., Livingston G.K., Lockey J.E., Olsen D.M., Shukla R., New G., Selevan S.G., Yiin J.H. Genotoxic changes after low-level solvent and fuel exposure on aircraft maintenance personnel. Mutagenesis. 12:1997;237-243.
28. Anderson D., Hughes J.A., Cebulska-Wasilewska A., Wierzewska A., Kasper E. Biological monitoring of workers exposed to emissions from petroleum plants. Environ. Health Perspect. 104:1996;609-613. Suppl. 3.
29. Liu L., Zhang Q., Feng J., Deng L., Zeng N., Yang A., Zang W. The study of DNA oxidative damage in benzene-exposed workers. Mutat. Res. 370:1996;145-150.
30. Andreoli C., Leopardi P., Crebelli R. Detection of DNA damage in human lymphocytes by alkaline single cell gel electrophoresis after exposure to benzene or benzene metabolites. Mutat. Res. 377:1997;95-104.
31. Anderson D., Yu T.-W., Schmezer P. An investigation of the DNA damaging ability of benzene and its metabolites in human lymphocytes using the Comet assay. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 26:1995;305-314.
32. M. Pitarque, A. Vaglenov, M. Nosko, A. Hirvonen, H. Norppa, A. Creus, R. Marcos, Evaluation of DNA damage by the Comet assay in shoe workers exposed to toluene and other organic solvents, submitted to Mutation Res.
33. Sarto F., Faccioli M.C., Cominato I., Levis A.G. Aging and smoking increase in the frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in man. Mutat. Res. 144:1985;183-187.
34. D. Anderson, R.S. Dewdney, P.C. Jenkinson, D.P. Lovell, K.R. Butterworth, D.M. Conning, Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) analysis in 106 control individuals, in: M. Sorsa, H. Norppa (Eds.), Monitoring of Occupational Genotoxicants, Liss, New York, 1986, pp. 39-58.
35. Bolognesi C., Gallerani E., Bonatti S., De Ferrari M., Fontana V., Valerio F., Merlo F., Abbondandolo A. Sister chromatid exchange induction in peripheral blood lymphocytes of traffic police workers. Mutat. Res. 394:1997;37-44.
36. Carere A., Antoccia A., Cimini D., Crebelli R., Degrassi F., Leopardi P., Marcon F., Sgura A., Tanzarella C., Zijno A. Genetic effects of petroleum fuels: II. Analysis of chromosome lost and hyperploidy in peripheral lymphocytes of gasoline station attendants. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 32:1998;130-138.
37. Migliore L., Parrini M., Sbrana I., Biagini C., Battaglia A., Loprieno N. Micronucleated lymphocytes in people occupationally exposed to potential environmental contaminants: the age effect. Mutat. Res. 256:1991;13-20.
38. Anderson D., Hughes J.A., Nizankowska E., Graca B., Cebulska-Wasilewska A., Wierzewska A., Kasper E. Factors affecting various biomarkers in untreated lung cancer patients and healthy donors. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 30:1997;205-216.
39. Fenech M. Important variables that influence base-line micronucleus frequency in cytokinesis-blocked lymphocytes - a biomarker for DNA damage in human populations. Mutat. Res. 404:1998;155-165.
40. A. Aitio, T. Antinen-Klemeti, K. Autio, H. Kivisto, T. Kuljukka, L. Nyland, K. Pekari, K. Peltonen, J. Surrallés, M. Sorsa, Benzene exposure and cytogenetic investigation of Estonian shale oil petrochemical workers, report of the EC environment programme, Project EV5V-CT92-0221, in: A. Carere, R. Crebelli (Eds.), Biomonitoring of Human Populations Exposed to Petroleum Fuels with Special Consideration of the Role of Benzene as a Genotoxic Component, Serie Relazioni 97/4, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, 1997, pp. 56-67.
41. Fenech M. The advantages and disadvantages of the cytokinesis-block micronucleus method. Mutat. Res. 392:1997;11-18.
42. Tompa A., Major J., Jakob M.G. Monitoring of benzene-exposed workers for genotoxic effects of benzene. Mutat. Res. 304:1994;159-165.
43. Yardley-Jones A., Anderson D., Parke D.V. The toxicity of benzene and its metabolism and molecular pathology in human risk assessment. Br. J. Ind. Med. 48:1991;437-444.
44. Anderson D., Yu T.-W., Wright J., Ioannides C. An examination of DNA strand breakage in the Comet assay and antioxidant capacity in diabetic patients. Mutat. Res. 398:1998;151-161.
45. Rothfuß A., Dennog C., Speit G. Adaptive protection against the induction of oxidative DNA damage after hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Carcinogenesis. 19:1998;1913-1917.
46. Anderson D., Hughes J.A., Cebulska-Wasilewska A., Nizankowska B., Graca B. Ras oncoproteins in human plasma from lung cancer patients and healthy controls. Mutat. Res. 349:1996;121-126.
47. Surrallés J., Autio K., Nylund I., Järventaus H., Norppa H., Peltonen K., Veidebaum T., Sorsa M. Molecular cytogenetic analysis of buccal cells and lymphocytes from benzene-exposed workers. Carcinogenesis. 18:1997;817-823.