scholarly journals The study of primary DNA damage in the bone marrow of mice under the combined action of pesticides

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Nataliya S. Averianova ◽  
Liliya A. Kara ◽  
Olga V. Egorova ◽  
Nataliya A. Ilyushina

Introduction. The study of the potential negative effects of combinations of several pesticide active ingredients is an important and understudied area of toxicological and hygienic research. The initial phase of the genotoxicant action on the genetic structures in cells is the primary DNA damage, the identification of which makes it possible to assess the early stages of the genotoxic effect of xenobiotics and their mixtures. The DNA comet assay is widely used for these purposes. The aim of the research is to assess the primary DNA damage under the combined action of pesticides. Materials and methods. To assess DNA damage the experiments on CD-1 mice of both sexes were performed using alkaline comet analysis. The concentration of active products reacting with thiobarbituric acid (TBA) in the blood serum of white outbred rats was assessed as a marker of lipid peroxidation. Results. It was found that mixtures of 2,4-D-acid + glyphosate and thiram + carbendazim did not cause the formation of breaks and alkali-labile sites in the DNA of mice bone marrow cells. Exposure to the combination of the technical grade active ingredients captan and fludioxonil induced the breaks and alkali-labile sites in the DNA of animal bone marrow cells. The comparison of the genotoxicity assessment results obtained by the comet assay and results of analysis of the TBA-active product concentrations in the rat blood serum suggests that the observed primary DNA damage upon exposure to the captan and fludioxonil combination can be mediated by the induction of lipid peroxidation and subsequent interaction of the resulting products with nucleic acids. Conclusion. The results indicate that some pesticides in combination can damage hereditary material in mammalian cells. Therefore, in order to ensure the safe use of pesticides for public health it is necessary to take into account the data on the genotoxicity not only of individual pesticide technical grade active ingredients but also their combinations.

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1037-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Babangida ◽  
S Ibrahim ◽  
A Muhammad ◽  
DE Arthur ◽  
A Uzairu ◽  
...  

Chrysin (CHR) is a food-based bioactive ingredient whereas, sodium arsenite (SA) is one of the major contaminant in drinking water. When ingested, SA contributes to tissue damage due to bioactivation by S-adenosyl methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferase. Hence, the needs to nullify this effect by investigating the potentials of CHR on SA-induced genotoxicity in rats. The experiment was divided into two successive stages (ameliorative and preventive, curative studies) for 1 week. Rats were divided into four groups: distilled water, 10mg/kg SA, 10mg/kg CHR and co-administration. In stage 2, the experimental groups were given either CHR or SA for 1 week, and treated in reversed order for additional week. Lipid peroxidation, protein carbonyl and DNA fragmentation in liver, blood brain and bone marrow cells micronucleus were assayed for using standard protocols. Molecular docking of SAM-dependent methyltransferase in the presence of CHR was conducted. CHR significantly ( p < 0.05) decreased the level of lipid peroxidation, protein carbonyls and DNA fragmentation in blood, liver and brain tissues as against group treated with SA. It also significantly ( p<0.05) reduced the level of micronuclei generated in bone marrow cells. The effects of CHR were shown to be ameliorative, preventive and curative in nature. Furthermore, CHR was able to dock (with binding energy of −24.81 kcal/mol and predicted inhibition kinetic constant (Ki) of 0.959 µM) into the active site of SAM-dependent methyltransferase with strong hydrogen bond and hydrophobic interactions. The study might have unravelled the potentials of CHR against SA-induced chromosomal and DNA damage, which might be due to inhibition of SAM-dependent methyltransferase.


2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Fatma E. Agha ◽  
Eman R.Youness R.Youness ◽  
Hassanane M. M.

Clomipramine is a tricyclic antidepressant commonly used to treat anxiety related behavioral disorders in human and animals. The current study was performed to assess the effects of different therapeutic doses of clomipramine hydrochloride supplementation on hepato-renal functions, lipid peroxidation, frequencies of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes in bone marrow, DNA damage in peripheral blood lymphocytes using the comet assay and effects of withdrawal of the drug for 4 weeks on these parameters. Forty two Swiss albino male mice were divided into seven equal groups. The first group served as a control, while groups 2, 4 and 6 were orally treated with low (75 mg/kg of body weight), medium ((100 mg/kg of body weight), and high doses (250 mg/kg of body weight), respectively of clomipramine hydrochloride daily for 30 days. However, groups 3, 5 and 7 served as low, medium and high withdrawal groups for 4 weeks. Different therapeutic doses of clomipramine hydrochloride resulted in a significant increase in the levels of serum ALT, AST, BUN and creatinine compared to control. Also, plasma malondialdehyde levels showed were significant increase in mice treated by different therapeutic doses of clomipramine hydrochloride compared to control group. In contrast, the administration of clomipramine hydrochloride in three therapeutic doses for 30 days caused a significant increase in the frequency of micronuclei in polychromatic erythrocytes of mice bone marrow, this increase reached more than ten times the value determined before the treatment and directly proportional to the dose. The level of basal endogenous DNA damage measured as the mean of percentage of DNA in the tail of the lymphocytes in mice treated by low, medium and high therapeutic doses of clomipramine hydrochloride were significantly higher than in controls. However, in the recovery period (4weeks), a significant amelioration in all studied parameters was observed. Results indicated that, clomipramine is a hepato renal toxic drug and induces a significant amount of DNA damage and in-vivo genotoxic drug.


Author(s):  
Е.А. Анисина ◽  
А.К. Жанатаев ◽  
А.А. Лисицын ◽  
И.Р. Шиловский ◽  
О.О. Колоскова ◽  
...  

Наночастицы при однократном и многократном введении увеличивают уровень повреждений ДНК в легких, печени и почках мышей, а также в клетках костного мозга in vitro. В условиях однократного и многократного введения наночастицы не индуцируют хромосомные аберрации в клетках костного мозга мышей. A single and repeated doses of nanoparticles caused DNA damage in the liver, lung and kidney of mice as well as in the in vitro comet assay on bone marrow cells. No statistically significant increase in the percentage of cells with chromosomal aberrations was observed in mice treated with nanoparticles after a single or repeated injection.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 1105-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Daev ◽  
M. V. Petrova ◽  
L. S. Onopa ◽  
V. A. Shubina ◽  
T. S. Glinin

Author(s):  
Ramya Dewi Mathialagan ◽  
Zariyantey Abd Hamid ◽  
Qing Min Ng ◽  
Nor Fadilah Rajab ◽  
Salwati Shuib ◽  
...  

Hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPCs) are susceptible to benzene-induced genotoxicity. However, little is known about the mechanism of DNA damage response affecting lineage-committed progenitors for myeloid, erythroid, and lymphoid. Here, we investigated the genotoxicity of a benzene metabolite, 1,4-benzoquinone (1,4-BQ), in HSPCs using oxidative stress and lineage-directed approaches. Mouse bone marrow cells (BMCs) were exposed to 1,4-BQ (1.25–12 μM) for 24 h, followed by oxidative stress and genotoxicity assessments. Then, the genotoxicity of 1,4-BQ in lineage-committed progenitors was evaluated using colony forming cell assay following 7–14 days of culture. 1,4-BQ exposure causes significant decreases (p < 0.05) in glutathione level and superoxide dismutase activity, along with significant increases (p < 0.05) in levels of malondialdehyde and protein carbonyls. 1,4-BQ exposure induces DNA damage in BMCs by significantly (p < 0.05) increased percentages of DNA in tail at 7 and 12 μM and tail moment at 12 μM. We found crucial differences in genotoxic susceptibility based on percentages of DNA in tail between lineage-committed progenitors. Myeloid and pre-B lymphoid progenitors appeared to acquire significant DNA damage as compared with the control starting from a low concentration of 1,4-BQ exposure (2.5 µM). In contrast, the erythroid progenitor showed significant damage as compared with the control starting at 5 µM 1,4-BQ. Meanwhile, a significant (p < 0.05) increase in tail moment was only notable at 7 µM and 12 µM 1,4-BQ exposure for all progenitors. Benzene could mediate hematological disorders by promoting bone marrow oxidative stress and lineage-specific genotoxicity targeting HSPCs.


2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (15) ◽  
pp. 7790-7798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masanobu Kitagawa ◽  
Shuichi Yamaguchi ◽  
Maki Hasegawa ◽  
Kaoru Tanaka ◽  
Toshihiko Sado ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Exposure of hematopoietic progenitors to gamma irradiation induces p53-dependent apoptosis. However, host responses to DNA damage are not uniform and can be modified by various factors. Here, we report that a split low-dose total-body irradiation (TBI) (1.5 Gy twice) to the host causes prominent apoptosis in bone marrow cells of Friend leukemia virus (FLV)-infected C3H mice but not in those of FLV-infected DBA mice. In C3H mice, the apoptosis occurs rapidly and progressively in erythroid cells, leading to lethal host anemia, although treatment with FLV alone or TBI alone induced minimal apoptosis in bone marrow cells. A marked accumulation of P53 protein was demonstrated in bone marrow cells from FLV-infected C3H mice 12 h after treatment with TBI. Although a similar accumulation of P53 was also observed in bone marrow cells from FLV-infected DBA mice treated with TBI, the amount appeared to be parallel to that of mice treated with TBI alone and was much lower than that of FLV- plus TBI-treated C3H mice. To determine the association of p53 with the prominent enhancement of apoptosis in FLV- plus TBI-treated C3H mice, p53 knockout mice of the C3H background (C3H p53−/− ) were infected with FLV and treated with TBI. As expected, p53 knockout mice exhibited a very low frequency of apoptosis in the bone marrow after treatment with FLV plus TBI. Further, C3H p53−/− → C3H p53+/+ bone marrow chimeric mice treated with FLV plus TBI survived even longer than the chimeras treated with FLV alone. These findings indicate that infection with FLV strongly enhances radiation-induced apoptotic cell death of hematopoietic cells in host animals and that the apoptosis occurs through a p53-associated signaling pathway, although the response was not uniform in different host strains.


2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhishek Basu ◽  
Arin Bhattacharjee ◽  
Amalesh Samanta ◽  
Sudin Bhattacharya

Toxics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Nazia Nazam ◽  
Mohammad Iqbal Lone ◽  
Abid Hamid ◽  
Talal Qadah ◽  
Alaa Banjar ◽  
...  

Dimethoate (DM) is an organophosphorus (OP) pesticide with wide use in the pest control. Its persistence in crops and soils could possibly cause adverse health consequences in humans as well as other non-target species. Since molecular studies confirming potential genotoxicity of DM have not been previously reported, the acute in vivo toxicological impact was evaluated in Wistar rats. Significant micronuclei induction and metaphase chromosome abnormalities in bone marrow cells exposed to three different DM doses (20, 40 and 60 mg/kg-bw) at multiple treatment durations (24, 48 and 72 h) indicated positive dose response relationship, confirming its genotoxic and cytotoxic potential. Significant mitotic index decrease was seen in dosed animals compared to vehicle control. The study used peripheral blood comet assay, indicating DM-mediated damage to DNA at all exposure levels in a time responsive manner. These assays were found to be an effective, precise, and fast technique with applied value in biomonitoring studies. Cell cycle and apoptosis along with mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) in flow cytometric analyses confirmed DM exposure decreased MMP, affected the cell cycle, and inflicted DNA damage, which led to cellular apoptosis of leukocytes culminating into immunotoxic effects. The in silico experiments consequently augmented that DM showed acceptable binding energy value for Cyclin A2, suggesting that it could inhibit the cell cycle progression by inhibiting cyclin A2.


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