Frequencies of micronuclei in bank voles from zones of high radiation at Chornobyl, Ukraine

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1644-1648

  Rodgers, Brenda E ^a   Baker, Robert J ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chornobyl; Clethrionomys glareolus; Genotoxicology; Micronucleus test; Radiation

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; STRONTIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ERYTHROCYTE; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; VOLE;

EID: 0034038739     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190623     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Cristaldi M, Ieradi LA, Mascanzoni D, Mattei T. 1991. Environmental impact of the Chernobyl accident: Mutagenesis in bank voles from Sweden. Int J Radiat Biol 59:31-40.
2. Goncharova RI, Ryabokon NI. 1995. Dynamics of cytogenic injuries in natural populations of bank vole in the Republic of Belarus. Radiat Prot Dosimetry 62:37-40.
3. Ilyinskikh NN, Eremich AV, Ivanchik II, Ilyinskikh EN. 1996. Micronucleus test of erythrocytes and lymphocytes in the blood of the people living in the radiation pollution zone as a result of the accident at the Siberian chemical plant on April 6, 1993. Mutat Res 361:173-178.
4. 90Strontium in small mammals at Chornobyl. Environ Toxicol 19:305-312.
5. Baker RJ, et al. 1996. Small mammals from the most radioactive sites near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. J Mammal 77:155-170.
6. Schmid W. 1975. The micronucleus test. Mutat Res 31:9-15.
7. Schmid W. 1976. The micronucleus test for cytogenic analysis. In Hollander A, ed, Chemical Mutagen, Vol 4. Plenum, New York, NY, USA.
8. Maier P, Schmid W. 1976. Ten model mutagens evaluated by the micronucleus test. Mutat Res 40:325-338.
9. MacGregor JT, Wher CM, Gould DH. 1980. Clastogen-induced micronuclei in peripheral blood erythrocytes: The basis of an improved micronucleus test. Environ Mutagen 2:509-514.
10. Heddle JA, Cimino MC, Hayashi M, Romagna F, Shelby MD, Tucker JD, Vanparys P, MacGregor JT. 1991. Micronuclei as an index of cytogenetic damage: Past, present and future. Environ Mol Mutagen 18:277-291.
11. MacGregor JT, Tucker JD, Eastmond DA, Wyrobek AJ. 1995. Integration of cytogenetic assays with toxicology studies. Environ Mol Mutagen 25:328-337.
12. Bhattathiri, Bindu L, Remani B, Chandralekha B, Davis CA, Krishnan Nair M. 1996. Serial cytological assay of micronucleus induction: A new tool to predict human cancer radiosensitivity. Radiother Oncol 41:139-142.
13. Straume T, Lucas JN, Tucker JD, Bigbee WL, Langlois RG. 1992. Biodosimetry for a radiation worker using multiple assays. Health Phys Soc 62:122-130.
14. Ilyinskikh NN, Eremich AV, Ivanachuk EN, Ilyinskikh EN. 1997. Micronucleus test of erythrocytes and lymphocytes in the blood of the Altai region residents living near the Semipalatinsk atomic proving ground. Mutat Res 392:223-228.
15. Zotti-Martelli L, Migliore L, Panasiuk G, Barale R. 1999. Micronucleus frequency in Gomel (Belarus) children affected and not affected by thyroid cancer. Mutat Res 440:35-43.
16. Hayashi M, Sofuni T, Ishidate M Jr. 1983. An application of Acridine orange fluorescent staining to the micronucleus test. Mutat Res 120:241-247.
17. MacGregor JT, Heddle JA, Hite M, Margolin BH, Ramel C, Salamone MF, Tice RR, Wild D. 1987. Guidelines for the conduct of micronucleus assays in mammalian bone marrow erythrocytes. Mutat Res 189:103-112.
18. Margolin BH, Risko KJ. 1987. The analysis of in vivo genotoxicity data: Case studies of the rat hepatocyte UDS and mouse bone micronucleus assays. In Ashby FJ, de Serres MD, Shelby BH, Margolin M, Ishidate JR, Becking GC, eds, Evaluation of Short-Term Tests for Carcinogens, Report of the International Programme on Chemical Safety's Collaborative Study on In Vitro Assays, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
19. Abramsson-Zetterberg L, Grawe J, Zetterberg G. 1997. Spontaneous and radiation-induced micronuclei in erythrocytes from four species of wild rodents: A comparison with CBA mice. Mutat Res 393:55-71.
20. 137Cs Determination and mutagenicity tests in wild Mus musculus domestics before and after the Chernobyl accident. Environ Pollut 64:1-9.
21. Il'enko AI, Krapivko TP. 1994. Radioresistance of populations of bank voles Clethrionomys glareolus in radionuclide-contaminated areas. Dokl Akad Nauk SSR 336:714-718.
22. Krapivko TP, Il'enko AI. 1988. First features of radioadaption in a population of red-backed voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) in a radiation biogeocenosis. Dokl Akad Nauk SSR 302:1272-1274.
23. Isaenkov SV, Sokolov NV, Sorochinsky BV. 1998. Genome changes in pine seeds after irradiation. In Garab G, ed. Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Vol 5. Kluwer, The Netherlands, pp 4101-4104.
24. Courdi AD, Mari D, Marcie S, Gioanni J, Chauvel P. 1995. Micronucleus induction in 10 human tumour cells after high- and low-dose radiation. Radiother Oncol 37:117-123.