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TOXICOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 224, Issue 2, Pages 233-239Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2013.10.028
Keywords
Formaldehyde; Erythroid progenitor; Micronuclei; Aneuploidy
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- NIEHS [R01ES017452]
- Provincial Scholarship Fund of Guangxi Education Department, Guangxi, China
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Although formaldehyde (FA) has been classified as a human leukemogen, the mechanisms of leukemogenesis remain elusive. Previously, using colony-forming assays in semi-solid media, we showed that FA exposure in vivo and in vitro was toxic to human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. In the present study, we have applied new liquid in vitro erythroid expansion systems to further investigate the toxic effects of FA (0-150 mu M) on cultured mouse and human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. We determined micronucleus (MN) levels in polychromatic erythrocytes (PCEs) differentiated from mouse bone marrow. We measured cell growth, cell cycle distribution, and chromosomal instability, in erythroid progenitor cells (EPCs) expanded from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. FA significantly induced MN in mouse PCEs and suppressed human EPC expansion in a dose-dependent manner, compared with untreated controls. In the expanded human EPCs, FA slightly increased the proportion of cells in G2/M at 100 mu M and aneuploidy frequency in chromosomes 7 and 8 at 50 mu M. Our findings provide further evidence of the toxicity of FA to hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells and support the biological plausibility of FA-induced leukemogenesis. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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