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Parodi S, De Ferrari M, Ottaggio L, Zunino A, Santi L. Increase in Sister Chromatid Exchanges in the Peripheral Lymphocytes of Cigarette Smokers. TUMORI JOURNAL 2018; 68:287-9. [PMID: 7147352 DOI: 10.1177/030089168206800403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We examined 20 smokers and 20 nonsmokers for a possible increase in sister chromatid exchanges. The people examined were carefully matched for age, sex and working environment, on that in each smoker-nonsmoker pair the only difference would be the smoking habit. The measurements were double blind. We found an average number of 5.8 sister chromatid exchanges per metaphase in nonsmokers and an average number of 7.9 sister chromatid exchanges per metaphase in smokers. The difference was statistically significant (p < .002).
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Kareli D, Pouliliou S, Nikas I, Psillaki A, Karelis A, Nikolettos N, Galazios G, Liberis V, Lialiaris T. Effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on fetus: a cytogenetic perspective. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 2013; 27:127-31. [DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2013.806897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Kareli DE, Pouliliou SE, Nikas IH, Psillaki AN, Galazios GC, Liberis VA, Lialiaris TS. Cytogenetic evaluation of pre-pregnancy smoking in maternal and newborn lymphocytes. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2012; 165:205-9. [PMID: 22921575 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2012.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2011] [Revised: 05/21/2012] [Accepted: 07/26/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To study cytogenetic damage in order to estimate the effect of pre-pregnancy smoking on pregnant women and their foetuses. STUDY DESIGN Lymphocyte cultures were obtained from peripheral blood of 20 women who quit smoking during pregnancy, and umbilical cord blood of their newborns at delivery. Cytogenetic analyses were performed for sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs), proliferation rate index (PRI) and mitotic index (MI) using the Fluorescence Plus Giemsa staining technique. Twenty non-smoking women and their newborns were evaluated as controls. CPT-11, a known antineoplastic, was used as a positive genotoxic agent in order to correlate non-smoking women with smoking women and reveal any underlying chromosome instability. Statistical evaluation of SCE frequencies, PRI and MI was based on independent samples t-test in order to estimate the effect of pre-pregnancy smoking on mothers and their newborns. RESULTS SCEs were induced in the cord blood lymphocytes of newborns whose mothers smoked before pregnancy when they were exposed to the mutagenic agent CPT-11 (p<0.01). A similar increase in SCEs was observed in both non-smoking and smoking mothers exposed to CPT-11. Newborns in both groups had significantly lower SCE levels than their mothers (p<0.01). CONCLUSION Pre-pregnancy smoking results in cytogenetic damage for both mothers and newborns, and is an important risk factor for cancer and/or other genetic-related diseases. Smoking cessation needs to occur well before conception in order to avoid the strong cytogenetic association between pre-pregnancy smoking by mothers and their newborns.
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- Dimitra E Kareli
- Laboratory of Genetics, Medical School, Demokrition University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
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Brøgger A, Waksvik H, Nicolaysen RB, Cohn J, Nygaard R, Moe PJ. Structural chromosome aberrations in lymphocytes from children with one to five years of total remission after chemotherapy of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.3109/08880018409141707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Husum B, Wulf HC, Niebuhr E. Sister chromatid exchange frequency correlates with age, sex and cigarette smoking in a 5-year material of 553 healthy adults. Hereditas 2008; 105:17-21. [PMID: 3793516 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1986.tb00635.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Husum B, Wulf HC, Niebuhr E. Increased sister chromatid exchange frequency in lymphocytes in healthy cigarette smokers. Hereditas 2008; 96:85-8. [PMID: 7085339 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1982.tb00037.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Hedner K, Högstedt B, Kolnig AM, Mark-Vendel E, Strömbeck B, Mitelman F. Sister chromatid exchanges and structural chromosome aberrations in relation to smoking in 91 individuals. Hereditas 2008; 98:77-81. [PMID: 6853220 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1983.tb00581.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Calderón-Ezquerro C, Sánchez-Reyes A, Sansores RH, Villalobos-Pietrini R, Amador-Muñoz O, Guerrero-Guerra C, Calderón-Segura ME, Uribe-Hernández R, Gómez-Arroyo S. Cell proliferation kinetics and genotoxicity in lymphocytes of smokers living in Mexico City. Hum Exp Toxicol 2008; 26:715-22. [PMID: 17984142 DOI: 10.1177/0960327107083451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Genotoxicity caused by tobacco smoke was assessed in peripheral blood lymphocytes of smokers living in Mexico City by determining sister chromatid exchange (SCE), cell proliferation kinetics (CPK), replication index (RI) and mitotic index (MI). Nicotine levels, and its major metabolite cotinine, were also estimated in urine samples using gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry to quantify smoking intensity. The outcome of the analysis and the comparison of the 77-smoker group with a non-smoking control group showed that moderate and heavy smokers exhibited significant differences (P < 0.001 and P < 0.05, respectively) in CPK, with an underlying delay in the cellular cycle; similarly, RI was significantly different in these groups (P < 0.001 and P < 0.0001, respectively). There were significant correlations (P < 0.05) between age and number of years the subject had been smoking, as well as between RI and nicotine and cotinine levels and between CPK (M1, M2 and M3) and nicotine and cotinine levels. Smokers were classified for the analysis according to the nicotine levels (it is in relation to number of cigarettes smoked per day) found in urine (ng/mL) as: light (10-250), moderate (251-850) and heavy (851-4110). Significant differences in CPK were found (P < 0.05) between moderate and heavy smokers and non-smokers. Significant differences in RI were found between moderate (P < 0.001) and heavy smokers (P < 0.0001) and non-smokers, but not for the light smoking group. MI was determined in 57 of the smokers, whereas SCE frequency was only recorded in 34 smokers. Both parameters yielded no significant differences, nor correlations with any of the assessed variables. In conclusion, cytokinetic and cytostatic effects were mainly detected in heavy and moderate smokers. Cell cycle delay and RI decrease were found in all ;healthy' smokers. The nicotine and cotinine exposure (causing oxidative damage to DNA) may have implications in the decrease in cell replication due to direct damage to DNA and/or a decrease in the DNA repair mechanisms. Alternatively, nicotine and cotinine may possibly induce apoptosis.
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- C Calderón-Ezquerro
- Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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Izzotti A, Balansky RM, Cartiglia C, Camoirano A, Longobardi M, De Flora S. Genomic and transcriptional alterations in mouse fetus liver after transplacental exposure to cigarette smoke. FASEB J 2003; 17:1127-9. [PMID: 12709406 DOI: 10.1096/fj.02-0967fje] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The transplacental exposure of fetuses to maternal cigarette smoke may increase the risk of developmental impairments, congenital diseases, and childhood cancer. The whole-body exposure of Swiss mice to environmental cigarette smoke (ECS) during pregnancy decreased the number of fetuses per dam, placenta weight, and fetus weight. ECS increased DNA adducts, oxidative nucleotide alterations, and cytogenetic damage in fetus liver. Evaluation by cDNA array of 746 genes showed that 61 of them were expressed in fetus liver under basal conditions. The oral administration of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) during pregnancy enhanced the expression of three genes only, including two glutathione S-transferases and alpha1-antitrypsin precursor, whose deficiency plays a pathogenetic role in congenital emphysema. Transplacental ECS upregulated the expression of 116 genes involved in metabolism, response to oxidative stress, DNA and protein repair, and signal transduction. NAC inhibited the ECS-related genetic damage and upregulation of most genes. ECS stimulated pro-apoptotic genes and genes downregulating the cell cycle, which may justify growth impairments in the developing fetus. Thus, both genetic and epigenetic mechanisms were modulated by ECS. Moreover, hypoxia-related genes and several oncogenes and receptors involved in proliferation and differentiation of leukocytes were induced in the fetal liver, which also bears hematopoietic functions.
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- Alberto Izzotti
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Via A. Pastore 1, I-16132, Italy
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Kaul A, Kalla N, Goyle S. I. The modulatory effect in genotoxic responses due to age and duration of PHT-therapy in epileptic patients. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1002/1520-6866(2001)21:2<135::aid-tcm3>3.0.co;2-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Pluth JM, Ramsey MJ, Tucker JD. Role of maternal exposures and newborn genotypes on newborn chromosome aberration frequencies. Mutat Res 2000; 465:101-11. [PMID: 10708975 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(99)00217-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Maternal exposures may induce chromosome damage and birth defects in the fetus. Polymorphic variation in genes coding for enzymes involved in metabolic activation and detoxification of environmental procarcinogens may account for some of the differences in chromosome aberration frequencies in newborns. In this study, 40 mothers completed questionnaires regarding exposures they received during their pregnancy. Umbilical cord blood samples were analyzed for chromosome aberrations. An average of 1020 metaphase cell equivalents (equal to 1020 G-banded cells) were examined from each newborn. In 26 of the newborns, genotyping analysis was performed for genes functioning in metabolic activation and detoxification (cytochrome P450 genes: CYP2D6 and CYP1A1, and phase II genes: NAT1, NAT2, GSTT1, GSTM1, GSTP1, and epoxide hydrolase). A significant association between the CYP1A1 MspI polymorphism and chromosome aberration frequencies was observed in the newborns (p=0.02), with heterozygotes showing higher aberration frequencies than the wild type homozygotes. Some large differences in chromosome aberration frequencies for other genotypes were also noted, but these were not statistically significant. Exposure to tobacco smoke in utero also appeared to increase translocation frequencies. The mean frequency of translocations per 100 cell equivalents from newborns of mothers who smoked during pregnancy was significantly higher than that of newborns whose mothers did not smoke (0.21 vs. 0.11, respectively, p=0.045).
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- J M Pluth
- Radiation Oncology Department, Stanford University, Cancer Biology Research Laboratory, GK109, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
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Kaul A, Goyle S. Genotoxicity of the anticonvulsant drug phenytoin (PHT): A follow-up study of PHT-untreated epileptic patients. I. Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) analysis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6866(1999)19:1<61::aid-tcm7>3.0.co;2-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Bigatti MP, Corona D, Munizza C. Increased sister chromatid exchange and chromosomal aberration frequencies in psychiatric patients receiving psychopharmacological therapy. Mutat Res 1998; 413:169-75. [PMID: 9639699 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(98)00028-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Combinations of various psychotropic drugs are often used, sometimes for long periods, in the treatment of various forms of psychiatric disorders. This paper evaluates the cytogenetic consequences of daily exposure to polytherapy with antianxiety, antipsychotic and antimaniacal drugs by determining chromosomal aberrations (CA) and sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in peripheral blood samples. The study was performed with a group of 36 psychiatric patients: 18 receiving long-term treatment with lithium carbonate, combined with benzodiazepines (BD) and antipsychotic agents (Group A) and 18 treated with BD and antipsychotics (Group B). Among the latter, 7 patients had only been treated for 1 month (Group B1). The results reveal a significant increase (p<0.01) in cells with aberrations in the two groups of patients (A,B) compared to controls. Moreover, complex aberrations (dicentrics, rearrangements, chromatid exchanges) had a frequency of 0.63% in patients receiving long-term treatment compared to 0.11% in controls, corresponding to the general spontaneous rate. The mean frequency of SCE/cell and the percentage of cells with a high frequency of exchanges (HFC) also showed a highly significant difference compared to controls in both Group A and Group B. Group B1 (patients who only commenced treatment 1 month earlier) did not differ from the control group with regard to the frequency and type of chromosomal aberration or in relation to the mean frequency of SCE/cell. No significant differences were detected between Groups A and B both of which showed similar frequencies of cells with aberrations, SCE/cell and HFC. No correlations were observed in Group A between lithemia and the biological markers studied.
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- M P Bigatti
- Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
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Vleminckx C, Klemans W, Schriewer L, Joris I, Lijsen N, Ottogali M, Pays A, Planard C, Rigaux G, Ros Y, Vande Rivière M, Vandenvelde J, De Plaen P, Lakhanisky TH, Maes A, Verschaeve L. Performance of cytogenetic biomarkers on children exposed to environmental pollutants. Toxicol Ind Health 1997; 13:219-30. [PMID: 9200790 DOI: 10.1177/074823379701300209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- C Vleminckx
- Division of Toxicology, Scientific Institute of Public Health-Louis Pasteur, Brussels, Belgium.
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Klemans W, Vleminckx C, Schriewer L, Joris I, Lijsen N, Maes A, Ottogali M, Pays A, Planard C, Rigaux G. Cytogenetic biomonitoring of a population of children allegedly exposed to environmental pollutants. Phase 2: Results of a three-year longitudinal study. Mutat Res 1995; 342:147-56. [PMID: 7715616 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(95)90024-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Our previous cytogenetic biomonitoring of a group of inhabitants in a village (Mellery, Belgium) where exposure to a mixture of toxic environmental pollutants, (probably originating from a neighbouring chemical waste disposal site) was suspected, showed that difference in the SCE and HFC bioassays was more pronounced for children. The results of follow-up study in 1992 confirmed this surprising conclusion by an even higher incidence. As very few studies have been performed on the levels of children's biomarkers, this group of exposed populations needed to be explored further. Do children residing in the vicinity of hazardous waste sites indeed represent a population at higher risk? In the present study, we compare the performance of various bioassays (SCE, HFC, SSB and MN) in extended exposed and reference children's groups. Simultaneously, in the exposed group, we followed variation in the lymphocyte SCE frequencies as a function of time. Reversibility of the latter biomarker was ascertained subsequent to a preliminary technical remediation of the disposal site. We compared these data with those obtained from a synchronous cross-sectional study on a group of children living near a similar chemical disposal site. The two exposed populations did not differ from the reference population regarding to the SCE and HFC mean levels. Comparisons of the mean levels of the two other biomarkers, SSB and MN, showed no difference between the Mellery exposed children and the reference group from Wavre whereas significant differences appeared when the Hensies group is compared either to the Mellery or to the Wavre reference group.
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- W Klemans
- Division of Toxicology, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, J. Wytsman 14, Brussels, Belgium
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Sardaş S, Karahalil B, Akyol D, Kükner S, Karakaya AE. The effect of smoking on sister chromatid exchange rate of newborn infants born to smoking mothers. Mutat Res 1995; 341:249-53. [PMID: 7531284 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(95)90096-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequencies in lymphocytes of 21 smoking mothers and their 21 newborns were compared to those that of 10-infants whose mothers had never smoked and to those of 8 infants whose mothers were passive smokers and reported high exposure to tobacco smoke by living or working with smokers. Mothers in the first group also smoked throughout their pregnancy. Results confirm our earlier study on smoking effects reported for adults. Additionally, we saw that neonates have consistently lower SCE frequencies than adults.
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- S Sardaş
- Faculty of Pharmacy, Toxicology Department, Gazi University Ankara, Turkey
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Khalil AM, Qassem W, Kamal OM. No significant increase in sister-chromatid exchanges in cultured blood lymphocytes from workers in a large oil refinery. Mutat Res 1994; 312:187-91. [PMID: 7510831 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1161(94)90024-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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In order to assess the potential genotoxic effects of occupational exposure to petrochemicals, the incidence of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in cultured lymphocytes was studied. Blood samples were taken from 233 individuals (184 exposed and 49 worksite controls) in an oil refinery and from 47 community control persons. The data showed a non-significant elevation of SCE frequency in occupationally exposed workers when compared to non-exposed individuals. The mean SCE frequency per cell ranged from 7.55 +/- 0.55 in blood of lube oil blending and canning (LOBC) workers to 9.13 +/- 0.71 in catalytic cracking and water treatment (CCWT) workers. The control values were 6.2 +/- 0.67 and 7.21 +/- 0.45 in the community and worksite individuals, respectively. Furthermore, the SCE frequencies were influenced neither by age nor by smoking.
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- A M Khalil
- Department of Biological Sciences, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
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Ammenheuser MM, Berenson AB, Stiglich NJ, Whorton EB, Ward JB. Elevated frequencies of hprt mutant lymphocytes in cigarette-smoking mothers and their newborns. Mutat Res 1994; 304:285-94. [PMID: 7506372 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(94)90221-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy has been associated with increased perinatal mortality and low birth weight. Several epidemiological studies have demonstrated an association between smoking during pregnancy and an elevated risk of hematopoietic cancer in the child, but other studies have failed to confirm this association. We have used an assay for somatic cell mutation to evaluate the in utero effects of exposure to maternal cigarette smoking. Cord blood samples were obtained from 10 newborns whose mothers smoked cigarettes during pregnancy and 10 newborns of non-smoking mothers. Blood samples were also obtained from 5 of the smoking and 5 of the non-smoking mothers. Smoking status was confirmed in all samples by testing the blood plasma for cotinine. The frequency of lymphocytes containing mutations at the hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) locus was determined with an autoradiographic assay using cells that had been cryopreserved. The mothers who were smokers had a mean frequency (+/- SE) of 3.08 (+/- 0.55) variant (mutant) cells per 10(6) evaluatable lymphocytes. The frequency (Vf) in non-smokers was 1.07 (+/- 0.17) x 10(-6). The Vf of newborns of smokers was 2.17 (+/- 0.24) x 10(-6), and newborns of non-smokers had a Vf of 0.77 (+/- 0.13) x 10(-6). In both mothers and newborns the difference in Vf between smokers and non-smokers was statistically significant (p < 0.05). Maternal and newborn Vfs were significantly correlated (r = 0.88; p < 0.004), and there was a positive association (r = 0.86; p < 0.001) between the reported number of cigarettes smoked per day and the Vfs. This study provides further evidence that maternal smoking may be hazardous to the future health of children exposed in utero to mutagenic agents in cigarette smoke.
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- M M Ammenheuser
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
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Lakhanisky T, Bazzoni D, Jadot P, Joris I, Laurent C, Ottogali M, Pays A, Planard C, Ros Y, Vleminckx C. Cytogenetic monitoring of a village population potentially exposed to a low level of environmental pollutants. Phase 1:SCE analysis. Mutat Res 1993; 319:317-23. [PMID: 7504206 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(93)90021-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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By analogy to the techniques applied for monitoring biological effects of exposure to genotoxic agents in occupational populations, we have carried out cytogenetic monitoring in a group of inhabitants of a village (Mellery, Belgium) suspected to have been exposed to a variety of toxic environmental pollutants. These pollutants probably originated from a neighboring chemical wastes site. A group of 51 environmentally exposed and 52 reference persons (including children) were examined for the frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in their peripheral blood lymphocytes. The technique was further refined by using a high frequency cells (HFC) analysis. Analysis of the reference subgroups showed a significant difference between non-smoking adults and children. The influence of tobacco was clear, too. In the exposed group, no significant differences could be demonstrated between either the smokers or the non-smokers or the children. Furthermore, not only were the mean frequencies of SCE higher than in the respective reference subgroups but comparison between the two groups also showed a higher number of individuals presenting a HFC level above the background in the exposed group. Surprisingly, the difference was more pronounced for the children. A follow-up of the same exposed population carried out 18 months later and after remediation of the atmospheric chemical release, the previously observed tendencies in the exposure parameter remained unmodified.
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- T Lakhanisky
- Division of Toxicology, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Brussels, Belgium
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Salonen K, Lähdetie J. No effect of maternal smoking in early pregnancy observed on chromosome aberrations in chorionic villus samples. Mutat Res 1993; 298:285-9. [PMID: 7678165 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(93)90008-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The effect of maternal smoking on first trimester chorionic villus samples (CVS) was studied by analysing the frequency of chromosome aberrations (CAs) among 20 non-smoking and 20 smoking mothers. The aberrations were classified as chromosome- and chromatid-type breaks and gaps. No statistically significant differences were found in the frequencies of CAs between non-smoking mothers (5.4% or 2.0% gaps excluded) and smoking mothers (3.5% or 1.0% gaps excluded).
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- K Salonen
- Department of Genetics, University of Turku, Finland
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Park EH, Kim YJ, Byun DH, Lee JY, Lee JS. Baseline frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges in 142 persons of the general Korean population. Mutat Res 1992; 268:239-46. [PMID: 1379330 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(92)90230-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Baseline frequencies of sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) were measured in lymphocytes of 142 healthy Koreans ranging in age from newborn infants to the fifties. The overall mean frequency of SCE was 8.78 +/- 0.24/cell. However, highly significant differences were found between individuals. The mean SCE values of the newborn babies and small children less than 10 years old were significantly lower than those of other age groups. No age effect was, however, observed in adolescent and adult subjects. Females had statistically higher SCE levels than males. The mean SCE frequencies of smokers, measured in male subjects more than 10 years old, were slightly, but statistically significantly, higher than those of non-smokers.
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- E H Park
- Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
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Gorgels WJ, van Poppel G, Jarvis MJ, Stenhuis W, Kok FJ. Passive smoking and sister-chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes. Mutat Res 1992; 279:233-8. [PMID: 1377777 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(92)90238-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The object of this study was to determine whether exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is associated with DNA damage reflected by the frequency of sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) in lymphocytes. Within a cross-sectional design, 106 male non-smoking adults, employees of two administrative companies, were divided on the basis of self-reported exposure into high and low passive smoking groups. The high exposed subjects (passive smokers, n = 50) lived with smokers, worked with smokers and were exposed to tobacco smoke for an average of 70 h/week. The low exposed non-smokers (n = 56) were exposed for an average of 5 h/week. Plasma cotinine levels for the passive smokers ranged between 0.4 and 9.0 ng/ml (median 1.4 ng/ml), and for the low exposed group between 0.0 and 1.9 ng/ml (median 0.4 ng/ml) (p less than 0.0001; Mann-Whitney test). No difference was observed between the two groups in the frequency of SCEs in lymphocytes: 4.66 +/- 0.05 for passive smokers and 4.68 +/- 0.04 for low exposed non-smokers (mean +/- SEM) (p = 0.80; t-test). Reclassification of subjects on the basis of plasma cotinine levels did not change the results substantially. These results are in accordance with observations that the increase in cancer risk due to passive smoking is small in comparison with the increase due to active smoking. The SCE test may be too insensitive to be useful for the evaluation of possible cytogenetic effects related to passive smoking.
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- W J Gorgels
- TNO Toxicology and Nutrition Institute, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Adhvaryu SG, Dave BJ, Trivedi AH. Cytogenetic surveillance of tobacco-areca nut (mava) chewers, including patients with oral cancers and premalignant conditions. Mutat Res 1991; 261:41-9. [PMID: 1881407 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(91)90096-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Three cytogenetic endpoints were studied in non-chewing healthy controls and 3 groups of tobacco-areca nut chewers, viz. normal chewers, chewers with oral submucous fibrosis and chewers with oral cancer. Frequencies of sister-chromatid exchanges and chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes and of micronucleated cells in exfoliated buccal mucosa were evaluated. All the parameters showed statistically significant elevations in all 3 groups of chewers compared to the controls. The data indicate possible application of the parameters as sensitive endpoints for monitoring tobacco-areca nut chewers, the group of individuals at higher risk of developing oral cancer, the commonest cancer among Indian males.
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- S G Adhvaryu
- Department of Cancer Biology, Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, Ahmedabad, India
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Tanner B, Schöneich J, Hüttner E, Steinbicker V. Cytogenetic monitoring of chemical workers in production of the drug 1-propoxy-2-acetamino-4-nitrobenzol with reference to their smoking habits. Mutat Res 1990; 241:291-5. [PMID: 2366808 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(90)90027-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The induction of chromosome aberrations (CAs) and sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) was examined in cultured lymphocytes from 23 individuals employed in the production of the drug 1-propoxy-2-acetamino-4-nitrobenzol. Lymphocytes of workers were cultured before and 13 weeks after starting professional activity. The latter showed a significant increase in both CAs and SCEs. Smokers (11 individuals) and non-smokers (12 individuals) were indistinguishable with respect to the frequencies of CAs or SCEs before starting professional activity, 13 weeks later smokers exhibited significantly more SCEs than non-smokers. This strongly suggests a comutagenic interaction of cigarette smoke and exposure to chemicals during drug production. On the basis of the technology applied the compound inducing CAs and SCEs in lymphocytes of smoking workers seems to be 2-acetamino-4-nitrophenol.
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- B Tanner
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Children's Hospital, Medical Academy Magdeburg, DDR
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Schwartz S, Astemborski JA, Budacz AP, Boughman JA, Wasserman SS, Cohen MM. Repeated measurement of spontaneous and clastogen-induced sister-chromatid exchange. Mutat Res 1990; 234:51-9. [PMID: 1691444 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1161(90)90031-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE), both spontaneous and chemically-induced [bleomycin (BLM), mitomycin-C (MMC), streptonigrin (SN), and 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide (4NQO)], were studied in the lymphocytes of 24 normal individuals on 2 or 3 different occasions, separated by periods of up to 2 years. For all BLM-induced SCEs, the variation in SCE frequency among the samples from a single individual was significantly greater than the variation between replicate cultures on a given day. These results raise questions concerning the validity of conclusions based on a single observation of chemically-induced SCEs.
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- S Schwartz
- Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201
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Sorsa M, Ojajärvi A, Salomaa S. Cytogenetic surveillance of workers exposed to genotoxic chemicals: preliminary experiences from a prospective cancer study in a cytogenetic cohort. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1990; 10:215-21. [PMID: 1975125 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770100304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Cytogenetic endpoints, conventionally chromosomal aberrations, and later sister chromatid exchanges and micronuclei have long been used to assess exposure of human populations to genotoxic agents. Although the adverse nature of somatic chromosome damage is recognized at the group level, no ill-health manifestations have been causally related to cytogenetic damage at the individual level. In work-related exposures, e.g., ethylene oxide, styrene, benzene, vinyl chloride, and alkylating anticancer agents have been shown to induce somatic chromosomal damage in several studies. For all of these, a carcinogenic risk to humans has also been documented. The possible association of somatic chromosome damage and cancer will be elucidated in a Nordic prospective study. The objective is to find out the significance of a high or low score in any of the cytogenetic parametres to risk of cancer. In the Finnish part of the cohort of 806 individuals, 10 cases of cancer were observed during the first follow-up period. Although the cohort is young and the numbers small, a slightly significant (P = 0.04) trend was observed for individuals with cancer and a score of chromosomal aberrations. No trend was observed for sister chromatid exchanges. The application of cytogenetic surveillance is still not routine methodology, but it is useful and informative in carefully controlled study designs. Special efforts should be directed toward combining different disciplines, i.e., cytogenetics, adduct monitoring, and end-effect epidemiology, in order to reach quantitativeness in risk assessment.
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- M Sorsa
- Department of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
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Schaumann BA, Winge VB, Garry VF. Lack of sister chromatid exchange induction in phenytoin-treated patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia 1989; 30:240-5. [PMID: 2924749 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1989.tb05461.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Phenytoin (PHT) has been suspected of having a mutagenic effect with chronic administration, but the existing evidence is equivocal. Contradictory results have been obtained using different testing systems. Sister chromatid exchange (SCE), a sensitive indicator of genotoxic environmental influences, has been used in only a few limited studies of PHT users, with varying results. The present study was designed to evaluate the potential mutagenicity of PHT in a more objective and reliable way than has been done previously. Following careful screening procedures, 16 adult male patients with epilepsy receiving long-term PHT monotherapy and 16 healthy controls were selected for a study of SCE frequencies in peripheral lymphocytes. The patients and controls were matched for sex, age, and smoking habits. Strict exclusionary criteria were observed, including all factors known to affect or suspected of affecting the SCE frequencies. Statistical analyses did not reveal any significant differences between the SCE rates of PHT-treated patients and controls, indicating a lack of PHT mutagenicity as expressed by induction of SCE in adults.
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- B A Schaumann
- Research Service, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55147
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Sorsa M, Husgafvel-Pursiainen K, Järventaus H, Koskimies K, Salo H, Vainio H. Cytogenetic effects of tobacco smoke exposure among involuntary smokers. Mutat Res 1989; 222:111-6. [PMID: 2918870 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(89)90024-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Tobacco smoke is highly genotoxic and produces chromosomal damage in several experimental systems. Active smokers have been shown to have an increased prevalence of somatic chromosome damage in their peripheral blood lymphocytes: this is seen in most cases as an increased sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency and often also as increased structural chromosome aberrations (CAs). Among passive smokers, in association with exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, no such induction of chromosomal damage has been documented. In the present paper we report negative results on induction of chromosomal damage in 2 separate groups of intensive involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke, non-smoking restaurant personnel and newborn children of smoking mothers. While significant exposure in these groups is clearly seen in biochemical intake markers, e.g. cotinine and thiocyanate values in plasma, the conventional cytogenetic parameters, structural chromosome aberrations and sister-chromatid exchanges, are unable to detect the low exposures of involuntary smokers.
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- M Sorsa
- Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland
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Goyle S, Maurya AK, Rout UK, Kailash S, Maheshwari MC. Sister chromatid exchange in human chromosomes from normal individuals and epileptic patients on combinations of anticonvulsants. TERATOGENESIS, CARCINOGENESIS, AND MUTAGENESIS 1989; 9:7-14. [PMID: 2567071 DOI: 10.1002/tcm.1770090103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency, a sensitive indicator in mutagenicity testing, and mitotic index (MI) have been studied to observe genotoxic effects in epileptic patients on routine combinations of anticonvulsant therapy. All patients, both male and female and from various age groups, revealed an increased frequency of SCE per metaphase and a low MI (P less than 0.001) with respect to controls. A nonsignificant decrease in SCE frequency has been observed with an increase in the age of onset of epilepsy. Although the SCE frequency increased and the MI decreased in some groups with respect to the duration of epilepsy, there was no difference observed in SCE frequency with the duration of therapy.
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- S Goyle
- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Rithidech K, Chen BT, Mauderly JL, Whorton EB, Brooks AL. Cytogenetic effects of cigarette smoke on pulmonary alveolar macrophages of the rat. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 1989; 14:27-33. [PMID: 2753026 DOI: 10.1002/em.2850140106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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To determine accurately the potential genetic damage induced by toxic inhaled agents, the cells that receive a high concentration of such agents should be analyzed. Pulmonary alveolar macrophages (PAMs) represent such cells. We compared the cytogenetic effects of cigarette smoke on PAMs of rats exposed repeatedly by different methods. This study was part of a larger investigation of the health effects resulting from different methods of exposing rats to cigarette smoke. Fischer 344/N male rats (4/group) were randomly selected from five different exposure groups: 1) nose-only sham-exposed (air) control, 2) whole-body sham-exposed control, 3) nose-only intermittent, 4) nose-only continuous, and 5) whole-body continuous. The rats were exposed 6 hr/day, 5 days/week for 22-24 days. All smoke-exposed rats received the same daily concentration x time product (600 mg.hr.m-3 for the first week, 1200 mg.hr.m-3 thereafter) of cigarette smoke. Rats were injected intraperitoneally with colchicine at the end of exposure. PAMs were obtained by lung lavage and chromosomal damage was measured. Highly significant smoke-induced differences in both structural and numerical aberrations were observed in continuously exposed rats vs. sham controls, regardless route of exposure. The structural aberrations observed were chromatid-type deletions. Both hypoploid and hyperploid cells were detected. Our data suggest that cigarette smoke is clastogenic and may disrupt spindle-fiber formation. These activities may play a role in the induction of human carcinogenesis caused by cigarette smoke exposure.
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- K Rithidech
- Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM 87185
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Anderson D, Jenkinson PC, Dewdney RS, Francis AJ, Godbert P, Butterworth KR. Chromosome aberrations, mitogen-induced blastogenesis and proliferative rate index in peripheral lymphocytes from 106 control individuals of the U.K. population. Mutat Res 1988; 204:407-20. [PMID: 3347213 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(88)90037-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Blood samples were taken from 106 individuals (73 males and 33 females) and examined for chromosome aberrations, mitogen-induced blastogenesis and proliferative rate index (PRI). The values obtained were investigated in relation to sex, age, smoking, alcohol consumption and X-ray exposure. In all the parameters, there was shown to be a difference between the mean values for the males and females. The incidence of chromosome aberrations was greater in females than in the males, whereas the mean values of PRI and mitogen-induced blastogenesis were lower in females than in the males. A sex difference has been reported previously in the same population, in that the females were shown to have a higher rate of sister-chromatid exchanges than the males (Anderson et al., 1986; Dewdney et al., 1986). Contraceptive pill usage was not considered to be of importance in the sex difference seen and there was shown to be no significant influence due to age, smoking or alcohol consumption on any of the parameters except that smoking reduced lymphocyte PRI. Males with previous X-ray exposure also showed a lower response to mitogen-induced blastogenesis and had a reduced PRI.
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- D Anderson
- British Industrial Biological Research Association, Carshalton, Surrey
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Carrano AV, Natarajan AT. International Commission for Protection Against Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens. ICPEMC publication no. 14. Considerations for population monitoring using cytogenetic techniques. Mutat Res 1988; 204:379-406. [PMID: 3347212 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(88)90036-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 385] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- A V Carrano
- Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
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Das BC. Factors that influence formation of sister chromatid exchanges in human blood lymphocytes. Crit Rev Toxicol 1988; 19:43-86. [PMID: 3056658 DOI: 10.3109/10408448809040817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) reflects an interchange of DNA sequences between helices in a replicating chromosome. This was initially accomplished by Taylor and colleagues (1957) using tritiated thymidine incorporation followed by autoradiography. The development of an elegant technique for differential staining of sister chromatids by incorporating a thymidine analog, 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) has greatly simplified the detection of SCEs in metaphase chromosomes. In recent years, the analysis of SCE has been considered to be a highly sensitive and additional (i.e., with chromosome aberrations) end point for measuring mutagenic/carcinogenic potential of various environmental agents and is increasingly being used to detect and differentiate among chromosome fragility human diseases that predispose to neoplasia. Attention has been focused to see if the induction of SCEs in lymphocyte cultures can be used as a reliable "biological dosimeter" for genetic risk assessment and to monitor the exposed populations. Several physical or preparatory as well as biological factors that modify the response and formation of SCEs make the monitoring difficult. The purpose of this article is to review and analyze these factors to facilitate an effective development of a standard protocol for SCE testing and for appropriate evaluation of test results. This may also provide clues to understand the yet unknown molecular mechanism(s) and biological significance of SCE formation.
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- B C Das
- Molecular Oncology Division, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
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Reidy JA, Annest JL, Chen AT, Welty TK. Increased sister chromatid exchange associated with smoking and coffee consumption. ENVIRONMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MUTAGENESIS 1988; 12:311-8. [PMID: 3169009 DOI: 10.1002/em.2860120305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) is a very sensitive cytogenetic assay for detecting exposure to chemical mutagens and carcinogens. One application of SCE is the monitoring of populations believed to be exposed to such agents. We have, however, relatively little knowledge about common lifestyle factors that may influence SCE and therefore complicate any study designed to examine the effects of exposure to genotoxins. In this study, we assessed the effect of cigarette smoking and coffee consumption on SCE. Smoking was associated with an increase of approximately 2 SCEs per cell and a decrease in cell proliferation. A positive linear relationship between SCE and coffee consumption was also observed. This effect was similar for smokers and nonsmokers. Additionally, the folic acid content of cell culture medium seemed to affect neither SCE nor cell proliferation.
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- J A Reidy
- Genetics Branch, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333
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Lundgren K, Lambert JM, Schreinemachers D, Everson RB. Effects of 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine concentration and alpha-naphthoflavone on the association between smoking and the frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes from maternal and cord blood. Mutat Res 1987; 188:223-31. [PMID: 3600688 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(87)90093-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges was analyzed in maternal and cord blood lymphocytes obtained at delivery from 23 nonsmokers and 21 smokers. Lymphocytes were cultured under 3 conditions: in the presence of 100 microM 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BUdR), 20 microM BUdR and 20 microM BUdR with 40 microM alpha-naphthoflavone (ANF). Under all assay conditions, frequencies of SCEs were consistently higher for maternal lymphocytes than for cord lymphocytes. There was no association between SCE values for cultures of the same blood specimen with 100 microM BUdR and 20 microM BUdR. When cultured with 100 microM BUdR, maternal lymphocytes from smokers had a mean SCE frequency of 13.5, which was significantly higher than the value of 11.1 observed for nonsmokers (p = 0.001 by the Wilcoxon rank sum test). Maternal smoking had no significant effect on overall frequencies of SCEs in maternal blood cultured with 20 microM BUdR either with or without ANF or when the differential between cells cultured with and without ANF was considered. Use of caffeinated beverages was associated with increased SCE values for maternal lymphocytes cultured with 20 microM BUdR (Tau beta = 0.36, p = 0.02 for the Kendall's Rank Correlation), but no such association was seen with 100 microM BUdR. For cord blood lymphocytes, however, neither smoking nor caffeine use were associated with SCE values obtained by any of the assay conditions used. The findings suggest that results of human monitoring studies using SCEs could differ depending on the concentration of BUdR used in cultures.
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Lukić B, Barjaktarović N. Sister-chromatid exchanges in newborns after normal and progesterone-treated pregnancies. Mutat Res 1987; 191:121-4. [PMID: 3600694 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(87)90140-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Two groups of newborns were selected for SCE analyses, one consisting of infants born after progesterone-treatment during pregnancy (PTP) and a control group. A slight, but statistically significant difference in the number of SCEs was found: in the control group 5.55 +/- 0.62, and in the PTP group 7.99 +/- 0.88. This effect also proved to be true in an in vitro system, where various concentrations of progesterone were tested. The authors offer two possible explanations: one involving the biochemical pathways of progesterone and the influence on the level of excretory products; the other involving a direct relationship between progesterone and DNA.
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Small children have been found to have a lower SCE/cell than adults and in recent reports females have had higher SCEs/cell than males. We here describe the relationship between SCE/cell and age and sex in 46 girls and 39 boys with an age range of 1.4-19.2 years and 2.6-18.7 years, respectively. For the calculation a transformation y = (sum SCE)1/2 + (sum SCE + 1)1/2 was used. The best fit to our material was represented by the equation y = b0 + b1 X log age. A common slope (b1) could be used for the boys and girls. This slope was significantly different from zero (P less than 0.0005). The levels of the regression lines for the two sexes were different (P = 0.0006). The girls had a 0.55-0.7 higher SCE/cell than the boys, depending on age. The following equations were found: Girls: y = 22.49 + 6.53 X log age. Boys: y = 21.11 + 6.53 X log age. By this model 43% of the variation in y could be explained. As a consequence of the result it is absolutely essential, when planning studies of children, to use age-matched groups to decrease the variability of the test system.
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To detect mutagenic effects of hexavalent chromium (Cr) in vivo, sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency was analyzed in lymphocytes of 24 Cr platers occupationally exposed to hexavalent Cr and 24 matched controls. There were no significant differences in SCE frequency between the two groups. Smokers, both Cr platers and controls, had a significantly higher SCE frequency than non-smokers.
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Littlefield LG, Joiner EE. Analysis of chromosome aberrations in lymphocytes of long-term heavy smokers. Mutat Res 1986; 170:145-50. [PMID: 3713724 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(86)90028-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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We assessed the incidence of structural chromosome aberrations in 500 diploid first-division metaphases from 48-h lymphocyte cultures from each of 6 non-smokers and from 6 persons who had smoked a minimum of 1 pack of cigarettes per day for at least 20 years. Cytogenetic analyses of coded slides revealed a single dicentric chromosome with its accompanying fragment and two symmetrical chromatid exchanges in 3000 metaphases from the non-smokers. In contrast, 9 dicentric chromosomes, 8 translocations or inversions, and 7 chromatid exchanges were observed in 3000 metaphases from lymphocyte cultures from the 6 heavy smokers. A total of 13 metaphases having chromosome-type inter- or intra-changes was noted including 9 with a single aberration, and 4 with 2 or more. Our findings provide additional evidence of the in vivo clastogenicity of cigarette smoke in long-term heavy smokers, and further demonstrate that the distribution of chromosome-type exchange aberrations is overdispersed relative to that expected based on Poisson assumptions.
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Senécal-Quevillon M, Duquette P, Richer CL. Analysis of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) in familial and sporadic multiple sclerosis. Mutat Res 1986; 161:65-74. [PMID: 3702896 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(86)90100-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The levels of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) were calculated in 17 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (14 familial and 3 sporadic cases) and 16 healthy controls matched for sex and age. The SCEs were significantly increased for MS patients (p = 0.0002), while there was no statistically significant difference between men and women and between younger and older subjects in both groups. Such factors as familial occurrence and severity of MS, smoking habits, and distribution of lymphocyte subpopulations were discussed. Although there was a significant difference between the MS patients taking medication and the patients taking none (p = 0.038), the latter were still significantly different from the controls (p = 0.035), supporting the fact that the disease itself increases SCEs. Our study, done with 2 doses of BrdU, also shows that the increased SCEs in MS patients are not due to a hypersensitivity to this substance known to be an inducer of SCEs. Thus we suggest that the increased SCEs found are probably disease-related.
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Zervou-Valvi F, Bazopoulou-Kyrkanidou E, Angelopoulos AP. Chromosomal breaks and sister chromatid exchanges (SCE) in patients with herpetic stomatitis. JOURNAL OF ORAL PATHOLOGY 1986; 15:151-4. [PMID: 3084739 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1986.tb00597.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Chromosomal breakage and sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) were studied in peripheral lymphocytes of 9 patients with primary herpetic stomatitis (PHS), 12 patients with secondary herpetic stomatitis (SHS) and 12 controls. The incidence of chromosomal breakage was significantly higher in PHS patients (mean 23%, P. = 0.0002) and in SHS patients (mean 20.25%, P. = 0.0003) compared to the controls (mean 4.2%). The incidence of SCE per 46 chromosomes was significantly higher in SHS patients (mean 16.564) compared with (P. less than 0.001) the controls (mean 11.367) and compared with (P. = 0.006) the PHS patients (mean 12.131). It is concluded that both PHS and SHS patients exhibit structural chromosomal damage; SHS patients in addition exhibit more repaired chromosomal lesions.
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Murty VV, Mitra AB, Luthra UK, Singh IP. Sister chromatid exchanges in patients with precancerous and cancerous lesions of cervix uteri. Hum Genet 1986; 72:37-42. [PMID: 3943863 DOI: 10.1007/bf00278815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The frequency of sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) was studied in leucocytes from 46 patients with cervical carcinoma, 89 precancerous lesions, and 43 age-matched control women. The frequency of SCEs was found to be 10.15 +/- 2.49 in cancer, 8.83 +/- 2.15 in precancerous lesions, and 7.55 +/- 2.24 in controls. The analyses of SCE data revealed a highly significant (P less than 0.001) increase in precancerous and cancerous lesions compared to controls. The intra-chromosomal distribution of SCEs revealed a random increase in various chromosomal groups in patients with cancer and dysplasia compared to controls. The mean SCE level among various groups of precancerous lesions according to severity of pathological condition did not show significant differences. However, 70.8% of dysplasia cases revealed SCE levels higher than the average in controls. The increased frequencies of SCEs in the majority of cancer patients and a few precancerous lesions indicate that individuals with high SCE levels may be at a high risk of developing cancer. Thus the usefulness of SCE levels as a preclinical marker to identify the high risk group of dysplasias needs to be ascertained by follow-up studies; these are in progress.
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Sarto F, Faccioli MC, Cominato I, Levis AG. Aging and smoking increase the frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in man. Mutat Res 1985; 144:183-7. [PMID: 4058436 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(85)90137-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The frequency of SCE was determined in lymphocytes of 88 healthy human subjects, not occupationally exposed to known genotoxic agents, who were uniformly distributed in several classes of age (from 16 to 70 years), including an equal number of smokers and non-smokers, and of males and females. Our results indicate that the frequency of SCE increases linearly with age and that smoking enhances the frequency of SCE independently of age and sex.
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Das BC, Rani R, Mitra AB, Luthra UK. Baseline frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCE) in newborn lymphocytes and its relationship to in vivo aging in humans. Mutat Res 1985; 144:85-8. [PMID: 4047075 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(85)90007-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Heparinised cord blood from newborns and peripheral venous blood from three other age groups of individuals (1-75 years) have been cultured in vitro to obtain baseline frequencies of SCE and to see if the frequency of baseline SCE in vitro varies as a function of aging in vivo. The results demonstrate an age-dependent variation in the frequency of SCEs. Although the SCE frequency was lowest (5.10/cell) in 1-5-year-old infants, a significantly higher (P less than 0.001) frequency (8.97/cell) was observed in the cord blood of newborns. In old age, the level of SCE also increased. The plausible reason(s) for such observations is discussed.
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Nagaya T, Toriumi H. Effects of smoking on spontaneous and induced sister chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes. Toxicol Lett 1985; 25:293-6. [PMID: 3925600 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(85)90210-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Spontaneous and mitomycin C-induced sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) in lymphocytes were analyzed in 24 non-smokers and 24 sex- and age-matched smokers. Mean spontaneous SCE frequency for non-smokers was 9.8 SCEs/cell, and that for smokers was 11.5 SCEs/cell. The difference was statistically significant (P less than 0.001 by t-test). These results suggest that spontaneous SCE frequency in lymphocytes is useful for evaluation of biological effects of environmental mutagens. However, we could not find any effects of smoking on the sensitivities of lymphocytes to mitomycin C in vitro. The effects of mutagens on humans may be independent of one another.
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Husgafvel-Pursiainen K, Sorsa M, Järventaus H, Norppa H. Sister-chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes of smokers in an experimental study. Mutat Res 1984; 138:197-203. [PMID: 6513975 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(84)90044-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The frequency of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) was studied in peripheral blood lymphocytes of 26 young male smokers and 10 non-smokers who had recently entered military service. The levels of SCEs were examined in 4 consecutive blood samples taken after short experimental periods of smoking only low-tar (LT) or medium-tar (MT) cigarettes. The incidence of SCEs was significantly higher in the the group of smokers than in the group of non-smokers. The SCE levels of the smokers were found to be associated with the personal smoking history; the observed increase in the SCE frequency correlated with the years of smoking measured as cumulative pack years. The difference in type of cigarette did not influence the SCE frequencies.
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Dunkelberg H, Krames J. Sister-chromatid exchange in cultured lymphocytes of ewes and their newborn lambs. Mutat Res 1984; 140:117-21. [PMID: 6749169 DOI: 10.1016/0165-7992(84)90054-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The incidence of sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) in cultured lymphocytes of ewes and their newborn lambs was determined using the BrdU-Giemsa technique. In all ewe-lamb pairs, the SCE rate in the lambs was less than that of the ewes. The mean SCE frequencies per chromosome of the ewes after lambing and of the newborn lambs were 0.1909 and 0.1581, respectively. The statistical analysis shows that a significant difference exists between SCE in the adult female sheep and their lambs. At the same time, a negative correlation was observed between SCE rate and cell proliferation. The results of this study are compared with those of previous reports on age-dependency of SCE.
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Benedict WF, Banerjee A, Kangalingam KK, Dansie DR, Kouri RE, Henry CJ. Increased sister-chromatid exchange in bone-marrow cells of mice exposed to whole cigarette smoke. Mutat Res 1984; 136:73-80. [PMID: 6717473 DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(84)90136-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Using defined cigarette smoke exposure conditions, BC3F1/Cum mice were exposed nose-only to two different types of whole cigarette smoke on a daily basis for 1 week and up to 46 weeks. The number of sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) per metaphase was determined in bone-marrow cells. Studies were scheduled so that all cytogenetic observations were made 2-3 days after the last smoke exposure. Exposure to either type of smoke on a daily basis for 1 week or up to 46 weeks resulted in a 2-fold increase in SCEs over sham-exposed control mice. In animals exposed either chronically or for 1 week to either type of smoke, the increase in SCEs persisted for at least 1 week after cessation of smoke exposure. This is the first demonstration of the induction of SCEs in laboratory animals that have been exposed to cigarette smoke in vivo.
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Watanabe T, Endo A. The SCE test as a tool for cytogenetic monitoring of human exposure to occupational and environmental mutagens. BASIC LIFE SCIENCES 1984; 29 Pt B:939-55. [PMID: 6529430 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-4892-4_33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The sister chromatid exchange (SCE) test system using human peripheral lymphocytes is proposed as a valuable tool for the cytogenetic monitoring of exposure to potential chemical mutagens in the occupational environment. We examined the SCE frequencies in organic solvent-exposed workers and reviewed the effects of occupational and environmental chemicals on SCE frequencies. The results obtained in these exposed populations are rather contradictory, which may be related to confounding factors, such as personal life style (smoking, drinking, and drugs) of the examinees, tissue culture conditions and the number of subjects examined. We discussed some practical problems for exposure estimation and sample size determination and are led to the following conclusions. 1) The possible combined effects of potential mutagens and cigarette smoking should be taken into consideration when using the SCE test system. 2) Cell cycle kinetic analysis by differential chromatid staining would provide valuable information as a biological indicator for the monitoring of the workers exposed to xenobiotics. 3) By appropriately setting the number of examinees, monitoring would become more efficient in detecting an increased SCE frequency in the exposed populations. Further studies are also required to enhance the sensitivity of the SCE test system for monitoring purposes.
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