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ArticleToxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology2011

Cigarette smoke induces DNA damage and alters base-excision repair and tau levels in the brain of neonatal mice.

Sebastiano La Maestra, Glen E Kisby, Rosanna T Micale, Jessica Johnson, Yoke W Kow, Gaobin Bao, Clayton Sheppard, Sarah Stanfield, Huong Tran, Randall L Woltjer and 3 more

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Article in Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Sebastiano La MaestraDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, I-16132 Genoa, Italy.
Glen E Kisby
Rosanna T Micale
Jessica Johnson
Yoke W Kow
Gaobin Bao
Clayton Sheppard
Sarah Stanfield
Huong Tran
Randall L Woltjer
Francesco D'Agostini
Vernon E Steele
Silvio De Flora
Oregon Health & Science University · USUniversity of Genoa · ITEmory University · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Repair of Clustered DNA DamagesR01CA090860 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI KOW, YOKE W · 2002 to 2010
$1.3M
Repair of Clustered DNA DamagesR56CA090860 · NCI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI KOW, YOKE W · 2008 to 2008
$228k
NCI NIH HHS CA90860NCI NIH HHS N01-CN53301
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prenatal and perinatal periods of brain development are especially vulnerable to insults by environmental agents. Early life exposure to cigarette smoke (CS), which contains both genotoxicants and oxidants, is considered an important risk factor for both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Yet, little is known regarding the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms. In the present study, neonatal Swiss ICR (CD-1) albino mice were exposed to various concentrations of CS for 4 weeks and the brain examined for lipid peroxides, DNA damage, base-excision repair (BER) enzymes, apoptosis, and levels of the microtubule protein tau. CS induced a dose-dependent increase in both malondialdehyde and various types of DNA damage, including single-strand breaks, double-strand breaks, and DNA-protein cross-links. However, the CS-induced DNA damage in the brain returned to basal levels 1 week after smoking cessation. CS also modulated the activity and distribution of the BER enzymes 8-oxoguanine-DNA-glycosylase (OGG1) and apyrimidinic/apurinic endonuclease (APE1) in several brain regions. Normal tau (i.e., three-repeat tau, 3R tau) and various pathological forms of tau were also measured in the brain of CS-exposed neonatal mice, but only 3R tau and tau phosphorylated at serine 199 were significantly elevated. The oxidative stress, genomic dysregulation, and alterations in tau metabolism caused by CS during a critical period of brain development could explain why CS is an important risk factor for both neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders appearing in later life.

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NicotianaAnimalsAnimals, NewbornApoptosisBody WeightBrainCerebral CortexDNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) LyaseDNA DamageDNA GlycosylasesDNA RepairInhalation ExposureLipid PeroxidationLongevityMiceNeuronsApex1 protein, mouseDNA-(Apurinic or Apyrimidinic Site) LyaseDNA GlycosylasesOgg1 protein, mouseSmoketau Proteins

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PMID21778470
PMCPMC3179679
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