Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 99-106Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2017.08.013
Keywords
Occupational toxicology; Organophosphates; Urinary dialkyl phosphates; Cytome assay; Cholinesterase activity; Clinical evaluation
Funding
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES, Brasilia, Brazil)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) [APQ-02593-13, PPE-01079-14, APQ-03554-12]
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The aim of the study was to assess of occupational exposure to pesticides in rural workers using genotoxicity test, bioindicators and clinical evaluation. Blood, urine and buccal samples from persons, rural workers exposed to a complex mixture of pesticides with organophosphates (n = 94) and without organophosphates (n = 94) were collected to compare the activities of cholinesterases, the levels of urinary dialkyl phosphates, genotoxicity data, from a cytome assay. Biomarkers were analysed by traditional/published methods Control group consisted of 50 other persons, non- occupationally exposed to pesticides from the city of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. All subjects underwent a clinical evaluation. In the group exposed to organophosphates, the activity of acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase and total cholinesterase was lower by 63.8%, 12.8%, and 14.8%, respectively, and 92.6% of the group had dialkyl phosphates present in their urine. The cytome assay was used to measure biomarkers of DNA damage (micronuclei and/or elimination of nuclear material by budding), cytokinetic defects (binucleated cells), and proliferative potential (basal cell) and/or cell death (condensed chromatin, karyorrhectic, pyknotic, and karyolytic cells). The group exposed to organophosphates showed significant changes in all these parameters compared to the control group and showed significant changes in budding, condensed chromatin and karyolytic cells compared with the group non-exposed to organophosphates. Data from the clinical evaluation showed significant changes in the central nervous, respiratory and auditory systems. The studied biomarkers are able to distinguish occupational and environmental exposure to pesticides and the data showed hazardous exposure to organophosphates and afforded valuable data to estimate the risk to cancer development.
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