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ArticleEnvironmental and molecular mutagenesis2011

Assessment of multiple types of DNA damage in human placentas from smoking and nonsmoking women in the Czech Republic.

M Margaret Pratt, Leon C King, Linda D Adams, Kaarthik John, Paul Sirajuddin, Ofelia A Olivero, David K Manchester, Radim J Sram, David M DeMarini, Miriam C Poirier

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Article in Environmental and molecular mutagenesis, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  4. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and DNA adduct semi-quantitation in archived human tissues.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2011
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10 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

M Margaret PrattCarcinogen-DNA Interactions Section, LCBG, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. m2pratt@yahoo.com
Leon C King
Linda D Adams
Kaarthik John
Paul Sirajuddin
Ofelia A Olivero
David K Manchester
Radim J Sram
David M DeMarini
Miriam C Poirier
National Cancer Institute · USCenter for Cancer Research · USEnvironmental Protection Agency · USChildren's Hospital Colorado · USCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Medicine · CZResearch Triangle Park Foundation · US

Funding

Interaction of Chemical Carcinogens and Chemotherapeutic Agents with DNAZIABC005177 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI POIRIER, MIRIAM C · 2009 to 2018
$5.1M
Interaction of Chemical Carcinogens with DNAZ01BC005177 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI POIRIER, MIRIAM C · 1996 to 2008
$2.1M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC005177Intramural NIH HHS ZIA BC005177
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Three classes of DNA damage were assessed in human placentas collected (2000-2004) from 51 women living in the Teplice region of the Czech Republic, a mining area considered to have some of the worst environmental pollution in Europe in the 1980s. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-DNA adducts were localized and semiquantified using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and the Automated Cellular Imaging System (ACIS). More generalized DNA damage was measured both by (32)P-postlabeling and by abasic (AB) site analysis. Placenta stained with antiserum elicited against DNA modified with 7β,8α-dihydroxy-9α,10α-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-benzo[a]pyrene (BPDE) revealed PAH-DNA adduct localization in nuclei of the cytotrophoblast (CT) cells and syncytiotrophoblast (ST) knots lining the chorionic villi. The highest levels of DNA damage, 49-312 PAH-DNA adducts/10(8) nucleotides, were found by IHC/ACIS in 14 immediately fixed placenta samples. An additional 37 placenta samples were stored frozen before fixation and embedding, and because PAH-DNA adducts were largely undetectable in these samples, freezing was implicated in the loss of IHC signal. The same placentas (n = 37) contained 1.7-8.6 stable/bulky DNA adducts/10(8) nucleotides and 0.6-47.2 AB sites/10(5) nucleotides. For all methods, there was no correlation among types of DNA damage and no difference in extent of DNA damage between smokers and nonsmokers. Therefore, the data show that DNA from placentas obtained in Teplice contained multiple types of DNA damage, which likely arose from various environmental exposures. In addition, PAH-DNA adducts were present at high concentrations in the CT cells and ST knots of the chorionic villi.

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DNA DamageCzech RepublicDNA AdductsFemaleHumansImmune SeraImmunohistochemistryIn Vitro TechniquesKeratinocytesPolycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsPregnancySmokingDNA AdductsImmune SeraPolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbonspolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-DNA adduct

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PMID20839217
PMCPMC3003747
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