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PubMed1983

Effect of occupational exposure to epichlorohydrin on the frequency of chromosome aberrations in peripheral lymphocytes.

The relationship between the level of occupational exposure to epichlorohydrin (ECHH) and the clastogenic effect was studied on a group of 33 workers. The effect of ECHH was assessed by differences in the frequency of chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes in ECHH-exposed and control groups. In the group exposed to the average ECHH concentration, 0.384 mg X m-3, during the last 6 months, the cytogenetic analysis revealed 2.00 +/- 0.23% AC (aberrant cells) (0.0203 B/C, breaks per cell) as compared with 1.68 +/- 0.23% AC (0.0172 B/C) in the matching controls. These results indicate that an average concentration lower than 0.40 mg X m-3 ECHH in the working atmosphere has no significant clastogenic effect on human peripheral lymphocytes.

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PubMed1983

High-dose ascorbic acid prophylaxis in workers occupationally exposed to halogenated ethers.

A possible prophylactic effect of ascorbic acid (AA) was studied in a group of 77 workers occupationally exposed to carcinogens bis(chloromethyl) ether and chloromethyl methyl ether. The effect of prophylactic treatment was assessed by cytogenetic analysis of chromosome aberrations, and by determination of blastic transformation and mitotic index in peripheral lymphocytes. Blood samples were taken at the beginning and at the end of 5-month AA prophylaxis. Simultaneously synthetic resin workers and subjects without any occupational exposure were used as controls. Administration of AA in daily doses of 1 g, 5 days per week, significantly decreased the frequency of aberrant cells (AB.C.) from 3.73% to 2.13%, and increased % of blastic transformation (BT) from 59.15 to 67.26 and of mitotic index (MI) value from 1.04 to 1.42. The respective data in synthetic resin workers were 3.65 against 3.52% of AB.C., 55.82 against 63.73% of BT and 0.78 against 1.08 of MI, and in nonexposed subjects 1.64 against 1.88% of AB.C., 52.10 against 55.73% of BT and 1.07 against 1.14 of MI. Smoking habits had no clear-cut effect on detected changes. These study results have confirmed that the risk of genetic injury, if assessed by the frequency of chromosome aberrations in peripheral lymphocytes, was considerably reduced after AA prophylaxis in workers occupationally exposed to halogenated ethers.

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