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Markers of lipid oxidative damage in the exhaled breath condensate of nano TiO2 production workers.
D. Pelclova, V. Zdimal, P. Kacer, N. Zikova, M. Komarc, Z. Fenclova, S. Vlckova, J. Schwarz, O. Makeš, K. Syslova, T. Navratil, F. Turci, I. Corazzari, S. Zakharov, D. Bello
Nanotoxicology 2017 02;11(1):52-63.
PubMed: 27855548
Abstract
Nanoscale titanium dioxide (nanoTiO2) is a commercially important nanomaterial. Animal studies have documented lung injury and inflammation, oxidative stress, cytotoxicity and genotoxicity. Yet, human health data are scarce and quantitative risk assessments and biomonitoring of exposure are lacking. NanoTiO2 is classified by IARC as a group 2B, possible human carcinogen. In our earlier studies we documented an increase in markers of inflammation, as well as DNA and protein oxidative damage, in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) of workers exposed nanoTiO2. This study focuses on biomarkers of lipid oxidation. Several established lipid oxidative markers (malondialdehyde, 4-hydroxy-trans-hexenal, 4-hydroxy-trans-nonenal, 8-isoProstaglandin F2α and aldehydes C6-C12) were studied in EBC and urine of 34 workers and 45 comparable controls. The median particle number concentration in the production line ranged from 1.98 × 104 to 2.32 × 104 particles/cm3 with ∼80% of the particles <100 nm in diameter. Mass concentration varied between 0.40 and 0.65 mg/m3. All 11 markers of lipid oxidation were elevated in production workers relative to the controls (p
Associated compounds:
Compound Name
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Structure | Number of references |
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Malondialdehyde | 91 |