Garaj-Vrhovac, Vera; Gajski, Goran; Ravlić, Sanda (2008) Efficacy of HUMN criteria for scoring the micronucleus assay in human lymphocytes exposed to a low concentration of p, p, -DDT. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 41 (6). pp. 473-476. ISSN 0100-879X
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Abstract
The cytokinesis-block micronucleus (CBMN) assay is one of the standard cytogenetic tools employed to assess chromosomal damage subsequent to exposure to genotoxic/cytotoxic agents, and is widely applicable to plant, animal and human cells. In the present study, the CBMN assay was used to assess the baseline damage in binuclear human peripheral blood lymphocytes exposed to 25 microg/L p, p'-DDT for 1, 2, 24, and 48 h by measuring the frequency of micronuclei, nucleoplasmic bridges and nuclear buds. These new scoring criteria facilitated the detection of different types of clastogenic and aneugenic effects induced by this type of pollutant. With these criteria, CBMN can also be used to measure nucleoplasmic bridges which are considered to be consequences of chromosome rearrangements and nuclear buds which are biomarkers of altered gene amplification and gene dosage. The total number of micronuclei observed in binuclear human peripheral blood lymphocytes of the exposed samples (ranging from 32 to 47) was significantly greater (P < 0.05) than that detected in the unexposed (0 time) control sample, where the total number of micronuclei was 7. The number of nucleoplasmic bridges and nuclear buds obtained after 24 and 48 h was also significantly (P < 0.05) greater in the samples treated with p, p'-DDT than in the unexposed control samples. Thus, our results confirmed the usefulness of the new criteria applicable for the CBMN assay employed in measuring the DNA damage and its role of a sensitive cytogenetic biomarker.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | p; p-DDT; peripheral blood human lymphocytes; micronucleus assay; nucleoplasmic bridges; nuclear buds | ||||||||
| Subjects: | NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Center for Marine Research | ||||||||
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| Depositing User: | Sanda Ravlić | ||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2013 11:42 | ||||||||
| URI: | http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/1200 |
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