1994
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1218(94)90056-6
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Cytogenetic monitoring of fishermen with environmental mercury exposure

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“…In vivo studies have demonstrated a clastogenic effect of mercury on people exposed to this element in their work environment, through the consumption of contaminated food, or accidentally. Increased numbers of chromosome alterations and micronuclei have been reported in people who consume contaminated fish (8,9) and in miners and workers of explosive factories (10,11). Negative results were also obtained in some cases (12,13), demonstrating that cytogenetic monitoring of peripheral blood lymphocytes in individuals exposed to mercury from different sources may not be completely specific (5).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…In vivo studies have demonstrated a clastogenic effect of mercury on people exposed to this element in their work environment, through the consumption of contaminated food, or accidentally. Increased numbers of chromosome alterations and micronuclei have been reported in people who consume contaminated fish (8,9) and in miners and workers of explosive factories (10,11). Negative results were also obtained in some cases (12,13), demonstrating that cytogenetic monitoring of peripheral blood lymphocytes in individuals exposed to mercury from different sources may not be completely specific (5).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…In a group of 51 fishermen exposed to methylmercury through eating contaminated seafood (6.97 ± 3.49 seafood based meals per week) a statistical correlation was found between micronuclei frequency and total mercury concentration in blood (Franchi et al, 1994); blood mercury levels ranged from 10.08 to 252.25 µg/L with a mean of 81.97 ± 49.96 µg/L. In lymphocytes of 147 Greenlandic Eskimos, whose main diet consists of seal meat, sister chromatid exchange was found to correlate linearly with blood mercury concentrations (Wulf et al, 1986); thus an increase in the blood mercury concentration of 10 µg/L corresponded to an increase of 0.3 sister chromatid exchanges per cell.…”
Section: Genotoxicitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…An array of heavy metal contaminants (including Hg) has been detected in blood and urine specimens of professional fishermen (Franchie et al, 1994), as well as from people not occupationally exposed to Hg (e.g., exposed via dental amalgam, air and water, and fish consumption sources) (Needham et al, 1996). There is also preliminary evidence that women who ingest large amounts of sport fish have higher levels of Hg in hair samples, umbilical cord, and cord blood than those who do not consume fish (Schwartz et al, 1983;Dalgard et al, 1994;Egeland & Middaugh, 1997); levels measured in maternal hair correlated well with infant brain Hg values .…”
Section: Sources Of Exposurementioning
confidence: 99%