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      Genotoxicidad sobre linfocitos humanos expuestos a PM10 de tres sitios del Valle de Aburrá (Antioquia) Translated title: Genotoxicity in human lymphocytes exposed to PM10 from three sites in the Valle de Aburrá (Antioquia)

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          Objetivo Evaluar la calidad del aire en tres sitios del Valle de Aburrá (Antioquia) a través de la determinación de la genotoxicidad del PM10 en linfocitos humanos. Métodos A partir del valor de referencia de PM10 para Colombia (50 μg/m3/año) se eligieron tres sitios del Valle de Aburrá con diferente promedio de PM10, Barbosa con 25 μg/m3, Corantioquia con 44 μg/m3y Facultad de Minas con 91 μg/m3. Los filtros de PM10 expuestos por 24 horas, se analizaron en la épocas de lluvia, transición y seca entre Julio de 2011 y abril de 2012. Con el extracto orgánico obtenido en cada filtro se trataron linfocitos humanos para evaluar in vitro el daño en el ADN por medio del ensayo Cometa Alcalino. Resultados Todos los sitios indujeron genotóxicidad altamente significativa (p< 0.001) respecto al control negativo, presentando el mayor daño durante la época de transición. Se observaron diferencias significativas (p<0.05) en la genotoxicidad inducida por el PM10 entre los tres sitios evaluados. Conclusiones Aunque los valores de PM10 reportados para Barbosa y Corantioquia fueron inferiores al nivel máximo permisible, se encontró actividad genotóxica del PM10 proveniente tanto de ellos como de Facultad de Minas cuyo valor de PM10 es superior a la norma. Estos resultados indican que únicamente el monitoreo fisicoquímico del material particulado es insuficiente para evaluar el riesgo relativo sobre la población expuesta. En consecuencia, estos estudios deben ser complementados con biomarcadores de genotoxicidad como el ensayo cometa.

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          Objective Assessing air quality by determining PM10 genotoxicity in human lymphocytes at three locations in the Valle de Aburrá (Antioquia department). Methods Three sites were chosen in the Valle de Aburrá (Barbosa, Corantioquia and the School of Mines) using Colombian reference (50 g/m3) and PM10content values, having annual low (25 mg /m3), medium (44 ug/m3) and high PM10 average (91 ug/m3). PM10filters were analyzed during three different seasons between 2011 and 2012: rainy, transitional and dry. Human lymphocytes were treated with the organic extract obtained from each filter to evaluate DNA damage using an alkaline comet assay. Results Genotoxicity was found to be highly significant (p<0.001) in all cases, compared to the negative control. The highest damage (six times) was seen in material from the School of Mines and during the transitional period. Differences were found between material from Barbosa and Corantioquia regarding that from the School of Mines concerning the induction of damage. Conclusions Although the PM10 values reported for Barbosa and Corantioquia were below the maximum permitted level, genotoxic activity was found for PM10from both sites as well as for the School of Mines. These results show that physical-chemical monitoring of particulate matter is not enough for assessing the exposed population's relative risk. Such analysis should thus be accompanied by using genotoxicity biomarkers, such as the comet assay.

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              A review of the literature on the mutagenicity/genotoxicity of surface waters is presented in this article. Subheadings of this article include a description of sample concentration methods, mutagenic/genotoxic bioassay data, and suspected or identified mutagens in surface waters published in the literature since 1990. Much of the published surface water mutagenicity/genotoxicity studies employed the Salmonella/mutagenicity test with strains TA98 and/or TA100 with and/or without metabolic activation. Among all data analyzed, the percentage of positive samples toward TA98 was approximately 15%, both in the absence and the presence of S9 mix. Those positive toward TA100 were 7%, both with and without S9 mix. The percentage classified as highly mutagenic (2500-5000 revertants per liter) or extremely mutagenic (more than 5000 revertants per liter) was approximately 3-5% both towards TA98 and TA100, regardless of the absence or the presence of S9 mix. This analysis demonstrates that some rivers in the world, especially in Europe, Asia and South America, are contaminated with potent direct-acting and indirect-acting frameshift-type and base substitution-type mutagens. These rivers are reported to be contaminated by either partially treated or untreated discharges from chemical industries, petrochemical industries, oil refineries, oil spills, rolling steel mills, untreated domestic sludges and pesticides runoff. Aquatic organisms such as teleosts and bivalves have also been used as sentinels to monitor contamination of surface water with genotoxic chemicals. DNA modifications were analyzed for this purpose. Many studies indicate that the 32P-postlabeling assay, the single cell gel electrophoresis (comet) assay and the micronucleus test are sensitive enough to monitor genotoxic responses of indigenous aquatic organisms to environmental pollution. In order to efficiently assess the presence of mutagens in the water, in addition to the chemical analysis, mutagenicity/genotoxicity assays should be included as additional parameters in water quality monitoring programs. This is because according to this review they proved to be sensitive and reliable tools in the detection of mutagenic activity in aquatic environment. Many attempts to identify the chemicals responsible for the mutagenicity/genotoxicity of surface waters have been reported. Among these reports, researchers identified heavy metals, PAHs, heterocyclic amines, pesticides and so on. By combining the blue cotton hanging method as an adsorbent and the O-acetyltransferase-overproducing strain as a sensitive strain for aminoarenes, Japanese researchers identified two new type of potent frameshift-type mutagens, formed unintentionally, in several surface waters. One group has a 2-phenylbenzotriazole (PBTA) structure, and seven analogues, PBTA-type mutagens, were identified in surface waters collected at sites below textile dyeing factories and municipal wastewater treatment plants treating domestic wastes and effluents. The other one has a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) skelton with nitro and amino substitution group and it was revealed to be 4-amino-3,3'-dichloro-5,4'-dinitrobiphenyl derived from chemical plants treating polymers and dye intermediates. However, the identification of major putative mutagenic/genotoxic compounds in most surface waters with high mutagenic/genotoxic activity in the world have not been performed. Further efforts on chemical isolation and identification by bioassay-directed chemical analysis should be performed.
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                Revista de Salud Pública
                Rev. salud pública
                Instituto de Salud Publica, Facultad de Medicina - Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, DF, Colombia )
                0124-0064
                April 2013
                : 15
                : 2
                : 294-306
                Affiliations
                [01] Medellín orgnameUniversidad de Antioquia Colombia
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                S0124-00642013000200012 S0124-0064(13)01500200012
                e96201ef-56a2-437f-9f77-532b6bcac55e

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                : 05 February 2013
                : 21 March 2013
                : 16 November 2012
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                Contaminación ambiental,biomarcadores,genotoxicidad,ensayo cometa,Environmental pollution,biomarker,genotoxicity,comet assay

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