title: Genotoxic biomonitoring study of population residing in pesticide contaminated regions in Göksu Delta: micronucleus, chromosomal aberrations and sister chromatid exchanges.
abstract: Pesticides are widely used throughout the world in agriculture to protect crops and in public health to control diseases. Nevertheless, exposure to pesticides represents a potential risk to humans. This paper describes a study of possible genetic damage in the people living in regions contaminated with complex mixture of pesticides in Göksu Delta. In this study, used methods were chromosomal aberration (CA), sister chromatid exchange analysis (SCE) in the peripheral blood lymphocytes, and micronucleus (MN) assay in the buccal epithelial cells. In the present investigation, 32 affected subjects consist of 16 smoking and 16 non-smokings and an equal number of control subjects were assessed for genome damage. Micronucleus (MN), Broken egg (BE), Karyorrhexis (KR), Karyolysis (KL) and Binucleus (BN) frequencies were higher in affected subjects than in controls. Smoking had a statistically significant effect on the Micronucleus, Karyorrhexis and Binucleus frequencies for both the control and the exposed group. Also smoking and exposure affected the frequency of sister chromatid exchange and chromosomal aberrations compared with control groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ergene
authors.forename: Ayla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celik
authors.forename: Tolga
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cavaş
authors.forename: Filiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kaya
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000097:blood / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D048629:Micronuclei, Chromosome-Defective; D015162:Micronucleus Tests / Q000379:methods; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000187:drug effects; D009152:Mutagenicity Tests; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects; D010575:Pesticides / Q000633:toxicity*; D012854:Sister Chromatid Exchange; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D053833:Wetlands
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D010575:Pesticides