Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 84, Issue 3, Pages 255-264Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/enrs.2000.4072
Keywords
diesel exhaust; inhalation exposure; 8-hydroxy-deoxyguanosine; DNA adduct; lung cancer
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To demonstrate DNA damages in the early stage of diesel exhaust exposure, an inhalation study of I through 12 months was conducted. The lung burden of diesel soot increased with increase in expo sure duration. Histologically, hyperplastic foci of alveolar epithelia were found at 6-month exposure and became prominent at the 12th month, with slight nuclear atypia and positive p53 staining. The level of 8-OH-hydroxyguanosine (8-OH-dG) in the exposed rat lungs showed an increase from 1 month of exposure, followed by a gradual increase, reaching almost a plateau level at the 9th month. An in vitro experiment demonstrated significant 8-OH-dG formation when diesel particles and H(2)O(2) were added to the DNA solution. The level of bulky aromatic DNA adducts peaked at the Ist month of exposure, followed by a decrease. By the end of the observation period of 30 months, lung tumors developed even in the g-month exposure group, and the earliest lung tumors were found only in rats that survived longer than 18 months. In conclusion, persisting oxidative stress on DNA induced in the early phase of diesel exhaust exposure, together with inflammation, seems to play an important role in carcinogenesis at advance ages after a long latent period. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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