Chromosomal effects of non-alkylating drug exposure in oncology personnel.

abstract：:Structural, and numeric chromosome aberrations (CA), sister-chromatid exchange (SCE), phytohemagglutinin stimulation (LI), proliferative rate index (PRI), and UV light-induced unscheduled DNA-synthesis (UDS) were investigated in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of 48 historical controls ("Controls"); of 14 hospital ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Major J,Jakab MG,Tompa A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of micronucleus (MN) induction and decline in blood normochromatic erythrocytes (NCE) of mice subchronically exposed to benzene was investigated during and after exposure. Swiss (ICR) male mice (10/group) were given 0.0, 36.6, 73.2, and 146.4 mg/kg body weight benzene by gavage daily for 14 days, except f...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Rithidech K,Au WW,Ramanujam VM,Whorton EB Jr,Legator MS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of cancer a series of specific genetic alterations have to occur in a stepwise fashion to transform a normal somatic cell into a malignant tumor cell. These genetic changes can be roughly divided in two groups: mutations in proto-oncogenes that result in a constantly activated gene product and m...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Vrieling H,Wijnhoven S,van Sloun P,Kool H,Giphart-Gassler M,van Zeeland A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several genotoxicity endpoints have been evaluated to define nonlinear dose-responses for SN 1 and SN 2 alkylating genotoxicants. Dose-response studies acknowledging the process of multistage tumorigenesis are important; however, data pertaining nonlinearity are not yet available. In this communication, the role of DN...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Becker K,Thomas AD,Kaina B

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used an SV40-based shuttle vector, pZ189, to investigate the capacity of HeLa cell extracts to reproduce the in vivo process of mutation fixation. We showed previously that when UV-irradiated pZ189 is replicated in these extracts, bypass of UV photoproducts occurs, resulting in base substitution mutations in t...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Carty MP,el-Saleh S,Zernik-Kobak M,Dixon K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of spontaneous mutation spectra derived from different transgenic constructs can provide valuable insights for interpreting the mechanisms of spontaneous mutation. In this study, spontaneous mutation frequencies and spectra of the lacI transgene are compared in the liver of C57BL/6, B6C3F1, and BC-1 mice an...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Zhang S,Glickman BW,de Boer JG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of toxicity of the leukemogen benzene is not entirely known. This pilot study used RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) technology to examine the effect of benzene exposure on gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from 10 workers occupationally exposed to high levels of benzene (≥5 ppm) in a...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Thomas R,McHale CM,Lan Q,Hubbard AE,Zhang L,Vermeulen R,Li G,Rappaport SM,Yin S,Rothman N,Smith MT

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental features of a transgenic mouse mutation assay based on a lacI target transgene from Escherichia coli are considered in detail. Sources of variability in the experimental protocol that can affect the statistical nature of the observations are examined with the goal of identifying sources of excess variatio...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Piegorsch WW,Lockhart AM,Margolin BH,Tindall KR,Gorelick NJ,Short JM,Carr GJ,Thompson ED,Shelby MD

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding chemically induced changes in mutational spectra can aid in deciphering mechanisms of mutagenesis. In this paper, we propose the use of statistical methods that are based upon the mutation frequency, rather than simple mutant counts which have no relationship to the mutation frequency. These methods have...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Carr GJ,Gorelick NJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of hispidulin and hortensin, the flavonoids from Millingtonia hortensis L. (Bignoniaceae), were performed using the liquid preincubation method of the Salmonella/microsome test. At the highest dose tested, 100 micrograms/plate, both compounds showed no mutagenicity and ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Chulasiri M,Bunyapraphatsara N,Moongkarndi P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1960s witnessed detailed studies on the genetic properties of a large number of histidine-requiring mutants of Salmonella typhimurium. The early 1970s saw development of selected strains, the Ames strains, for use in rapid, cheap, sensitive, and manipulable tests of chemicals and chemical mixtures for genotoxic ac...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hartman PE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lymphocytes and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) fibroblasts were analyzed for cytogenetic and cytotoxic endpoints to determine whether exposure to power frequency (60 Hz) electromagnetic fields (EMF) interferes with normal cell growth and reproduction. An exposure chamber was built to apply variable electric current...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Livingston GK,Witt KL,Gandhi OP,Chatterjee I,Roti Roti JL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unpublished results from our laboratory showed that colchicine increased the incidence of hyperploid mouse metaphase II (MII) oocytes when injected at the same time as human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). The objective of the present study was to determine whether the time of administering colchicine influenced the in...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Mailhes JB,Yuan ZP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National and international regulatory agencies historically have used genotoxicity information as part of a weight-of-evidence approach to evaluate potential human carcinogenicity. Additionally, some agencies consider heritable mutation a regulatory endpoint. Furthermore, genotoxicity has the potential to contribute t...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Cimino MC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments described herein were designed to evaluate the performance characteristics of a flow cytometry-based system that scores the incidence of peripheral blood micronucleated reticulocytes (MN-RETs). These procedures represent the continued refinement of a previously reported anti-CD71-based method (Dertinger et...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dertinger SD,Camphausen K,Macgregor JT,Bishop ME,Torous DK,Avlasevich S,Cairns S,Tometsko CR,Menard C,Muanza T,Chen Y,Miller RK,Cederbrant K,Sandelin K,Pontén I,Bolcsfoldi G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antioxidant vitamins are able to deactivate highly bioactive molecules, such as free radicals, that are generated during cellular biochemical processes. Doxorubicin (DXR) is a cancer chemotherapeutic agent that generates free radicals as a byproduct. In the present study, the Drosophila melanogaster somatic wing spot ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Costa WF,Nepomuceno JC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead is a widely existing environmental pollutant with potential carcinogenicity. To investigate the association of blood lead level (B-Pb) with potential chromosomal damage and cancer, we analyzed micronucleus (MN) frequency of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) and the methylation status of six human tumor suppress...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Yu LB,Tu YT,Huang JW,Zhang YN,Zheng GQ,Xu XW,Wang JW,Xiao JQ,Christiani DC,Xia ZL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize in vivo gene mutations that occur during fetal development, molecular analyses were undertaken of mutant 6-thioguanine resistant T-lymphocytes isolated from placental cord blood samples of 13 normal male newborns. These mutant T-cells were studied to define hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosylt...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： McGinniss MJ,Nicklas JA,Albertini RJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization with 7, 17, X, and Y chromosome-specific DNA probe was used to investigate the ability of Adriamycin (AM) to induce aneuploidy in interphase human lymphocytes. The reliability of the probes was tested by hybridization to metaphases and interphase nuclei of untreated normal lymphocyte...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Aly MS,Othman OE,El Nahas SM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transporter associated with antigen processing 2 (TAP2) is involved in the development of multidrug resistance and the etiology of immunological diseases. In this study, we investigated whether the expression of TAP2 can be perturbed by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in 3'-untranslated region (3'-U...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Knox B,Wang Y,Rogers LJ,Xuan J,Yu D,Guan H,Chen J,Shi T,Ning B,Kadlubar SA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the influence of DNA repair by Ogt alkyltransferase on the distribution of alkylnitrosourea-induced mutations, we have analysed in Ogt-proficient and Ogt-deficient bacterial strains the DNA sequence changes of a total of 357 independent mutations occurring within the initial part of the lacl gene of Esche...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Vidal A,Abril N,Pueyo C

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation and many chemicals have been found to induce homologous genetic recombination. Experimental systems that allow the detection and characterization of recombinagens exist in organisms as diverse as bacteria, fungi, plants, insects, and mammals. Recombination plays an important role in many biological processes...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Hoffmann GR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of our study was to develop a micronucleus (MN) assay for detecting genotoxic damage after inhalation exposure in mouse alveolar Type II and Clara cells, potential target cells for lung carcinogens. Ten male C57BL/6J mice were exposed to ethylene oxide (630 mg/m(3)) for 4 hr via inhalation; 10 unexposed ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Lindberg HK,Falck GC,Catalán J,Santonen T,Norppa H

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riddelliine (RID) is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid found in plants of the genera Crotalaria, Amsinckia, and Senecio in the United States. RID has been extensively studied in a wide variety of in vitro short-term genotoxicity tests and has yielded positive responses in most test systems; however, there are fewer data availa...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Mirsalis JC,Steinmetz KL,Blazak WF,Spalding JW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cigarette smoking leads to various detrimental health outcomes. Tobacco companies produce different brands of cigarettes that are marketed as reduced harm tobacco products. Early examples included "light" cigarettes, which differ from regular cigarettes due to filter ventilation and/or differences in chemical constitu...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Yauk CL,Williams A,Buick JK,Chen G,Maertens RM,Halappanavar S,White PA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA mutations play a crucial role in the origins of cancer, and the clonal expansion of mutant cells is one of the fundamental steps in multistage carcinogenesis. In this study, we correlated tumor incidence in B6C3F1 mice during the period after exposure to N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) with the persistence of ENU-indu...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Nakayama T,Sawai T,Masuda I,Kaneko S,Yamauchi K,Blyth BJ,Shimada Y,Tachibana A,Kakinuma S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-isotopic in situ hybridization using a mouse gamma (major) satellite probe DNA was applied to detect centromeres in micronuclei, which were induced in vitro in mouse liver cells by ionizing radiation and by vinblastine sulfate. In a cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus assay a dose-dependent induction of micronuclei w...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Salassidis K,Huber R,Zitzelsberger H,Bauchinger M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric pollution represents a relevant environmental hazard which has been associated with considerable excess mortality, morbidity, and increased rates of respiratory diseases in humans. To date, more than 3,000 environmental chemical compounds have been identified in the ambient atmosphere, including a variety ...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Bolognesi C,Merlo F,Rabboni R,Valerio F,Abbondandolo A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is provided that antitopoisomerase drugs induce chromosomal aberrations via the formation of DNA double strand breaks. Camptothecin, an inhibitor of DNA topoisomerase I, produced only chromatid-type aberrations, and in order to be effective it has to be present during the DNA replication. The fact that it ind...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Palitti F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monohaloacetic acids (monoHAAs) are a major class of drinking water disinfection by-products (DBPs) and are cytotoxic, genotoxic, mutagenic, and teratogenic. We propose a model of toxic action based on monoHAA-mediated inhibition of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) as a target cytosolic enzyme. This mo...

journal_title：Environmental and molecular mutagenesis

authors： Dad A,Jeong CH,Pals JA,Wagner ED,Plewa MJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00