DNA DAMAGE INDUCED BY OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO COPPER OXIDE NANOPARTICLES

1 ROSSNER Pavel
Co-authors:
2 PELCLOVA Daniela 1 ELZEINOVA Fatima 3 MIKUSKA Pavel 3 VECERA Zbynek 3 COUFALIK Pavel 2 VLCKOVA Stepanka 2 FENCLOVA Zdenka 1 ROSSNEROVA Andrea
Institutions:
1 Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 4, Czech Republic, EU, pavel.rossner@iem.cas.cz, fatima.elzeinova@iem.cas.cz, andrea.rossnerova@iem.cas.cz
2 Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic, EU, daniela.pelclova@lf1.cuni.cz, Stepanka.Vlckova@vfn.cz, Zdenka.Fenclova@lf1.cuni.cz
3 Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, mikuska@iach.cz, vecera@iach.cz, coufalik@iach.cz
Conference:
11th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 16th - 18th 2019
Proceedings:
Proceedings 11th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
486-490
ISBN:
978-80-87294-95-6
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
1st April 2020
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

Copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) have a widespread use in industry, chemistry, in production of electronic devices and as an antimicrobial agent. Although copper is an important biogenic element, CuO NPs are toxic with the ability to induce oxidative stress, apoptosis, cell cycle arrest or DNA damage. For humans, the inhalation route is the most common way of exposure to CuO NPs. In the body, CuO NPs may be either deposited in the lungs, or transported to other organs. Their presence usually causes oxidative stress or inflammatory responses, consequently leading to DNA damage. In this study, we investigated the effect of CuO NPs inhalation on DNA damage in a group of researches conducting animal exposure experiments. The subjects were exposed to various metal oxide nanoparticles, including CuO NPs, by inhalation for an average of 4.9 ± 0.4 years. The average mass concentration of Cu in the air during the experiment was 7.3 ± 3.2 ng/m3. Subjects not exposed to nanoparticles served as a control group. We applied micronucleus assay using Human Pan Centromeric probes to detect DNA damage and to distinguish between the frequency of centromere positive (CEN+) and centromere negative (CEN−) micronuclei (MN) in the binucleated cells. We did not find differences between both groups for either mean MN frequency (10.38 ± 2.50 vs. 11.88 ± 3.01 MN/1000 binucleated cells), or CEN+/CEN- ratio (58%/42% vs. 55%/45%), for the exposed and controls, respectively. In conclusion, inhalation of CuO NPs at this low-level exposure had no effect on chromosomal losses and/or breaks.

Keywords: Copper oxide nanoparticles, inhalation, DNA damage

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