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  • Low doses of ochratoxin A induce micronucleus formation and delay DNA repair in human lymphocytes.

Low doses of ochratoxin A induce micronucleus formation and delay DNA repair in human lymphocytes.

Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association (2014-12-03)
Cyndia A González-Arias, Alma B Benitez-Trinidad, Monserrat Sordo, Lourdes Robledo-Marenco, Irma M Medina-Díaz, Briscia S Barrón-Vivanco, Sonia Marín, Vicente Sanchis, Antonio J Ramos, Aurora E Rojas-García
ABSTRACT

The contamination of food commodities by fungal toxins has attracted great interest because many of these mycotoxins are responsible for different diseases, including cancer and other chronic illnesses. Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin naturally present in food, and long-term exposure to food contaminated with low levels of OTA has been associated with renal cancer. In the present study, the cytotoxicity, cytostaticity, and genotoxicity of OTA (0.075-15 µM) in human lymphocytes were evaluated. A comet assay, a modified comet assay (DNA repair assay), which uses N-hydroxyurea (NHU) to detect non-repaired lesions produced by OTA, and a cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus assay were used. Treatments with OTA were not cytotoxic, but OTA caused a cytostatic effect in human lymphocytes at a concentration of 15 µM. OTA (0.075-5 µM) produced a slight increase in the percentage of DNA in the comets and a delay in the DNA repair capacity of the lymphocytes. Micronucleus (MN) induction was observed at OTA concentrations of 1.5 and 5 µM. Our results indicate that OTA induces DNA stable damage at low doses that are neither cytotoxic nor cytostatic, and OTA delays the DNA repair kinetics. These findings indicate that OTA affects two pivotal events in the carcinogenesis pathway.

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