Increased glycophorin A somatic cell variant frequency in arsenic-exposed patients of Guizhou, China

Zhang, X.J.; Chen, D.X.; Xu, Haonan; Zhao, Min; Fang, Ning; Du, Hui; Zhou, Yun-Su; Cheng, Min-Liang; Yuan, Weili; Jiang, Lijia; Xiao, Han; Wa, Qingde; Liu, L.M.; Liu, J.; Waalkes, Michael P.

doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2006.08.008

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“…First, lower MT expression may have been a predisposing factor to arsenic toxicity. In this regard, not all people living in this area of endemic arsenicosis show overt signs of arsenic intoxication (Liu et al 2002; Yang et al 2006; Zhang et al 2006), so some differences in sensitivity might be expected. Differences between the control population and the arsenicosis population could contribute variation in MT, and, for example, smoking and/or ethanol consumption were not assessed in the present study.…”

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Blood Metallothionein Transcript as a Biomarker for Metal Sensitivity: Low Blood Metallothionein Transcripts in Arsenicosis Patients from Guizhou, China

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Cheng

Yang

et al. 2007

Environ Health Perspect

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BackgroundBecause metallothionein (MT) is a metal-binding protein that protects against metal intoxication, it could be a biomarker for individual sensitivity to metal toxicity.ObjectiveWe assessed the use of bloodborne MT transcript as a reflection of tissue MT levels and examined the potential role of MT in arsenic toxicity in an environmentally exposed human population.MethodRodents were treated with zinc or nonmetallic MT inducers for 4 days, and the blood and tissues were collected for MT transcript analysis by real-time reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction and MT protein determination by the cadmium–hemoglobin assay. Blood and buccal cell samples were collected from arsenicosis patients and healthy subjects residing in Guizhou, China, and total RNA was isolated for MT transcript analysis.ResultsThere was a positive correlation between blood MT-1 and MT-2 transcripts and corresponding hepatic or renal MT transcript levels in rats and mice. Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between blood MT-1 and MT-2 transcript and tissue MT protein levels in these animals. A positive correlation also occurred between human blood MT and buccal cell MT transcript levels. MT-1A and MT-2A were the major isoform transcripts in human blood and buccal cells, and significantly lower MT levels were seen in arsenicosis patients compared with healthy subjects.ConclusionsBlood MT transcript appears to be a useful biomarker of tissue MT levels. Arsenicosis patients in Guizhou show significantly lower MT transcript levels in blood, which may have predisposed this population to arsenic intoxication.

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“…), as well as other clinical symptomology of chronic arsenic intoxication (Yang et al 2005; Zhang et al 2006; Zhao et al 2005). Controls were from the same province and were selected for an absence of signs or symptoms of arsenic intoxication.…”

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