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1,3-Butadiene (BD) is a carcinogen in both rats and mice with mice being substantially more sensitive than rats. It is not known if BD poses a carcinogenic risk for humans. Findings from exposure assessment studies indicate that potential industrial exposure to BD in monomer, polymer, and end-user industries is typically < 2 p.p.m. Epidemiologic studies of persons occupationally exposed to BD are inconclusive. In vitro metabolism of BD in rats, mice and human tissues indicate that there are significant quantitative species differences in the metabolic activation of BD to butadiene monoepoxide (BMO) and butadiene diepoxide (BDE) and the detoxication of BMO. Activation/detoxication ratios calculated using in vitro kinetic constants reveal that ratios in mice were 12-fold greater than rats and humans. In rats and mice exposed to BD, concentrations of BMO in blood and tissues of mice were up to 14-fold higher than in rats and BDE was only detected in mice thereby providing a strong argument for why mice are highly sensitive to BD carcinogenicity. The fact that human tissues do not appear to metabolize BMO to BDE to any significant extent suggest that humans may not be sensitive to BD carcinogenicity. In mice, BDE is a more potent carcinogen than BMO. BDE is mutagenic in vitro at the hprt locus in human TK6 lymphoblasts at concentrations that were 100-fold less than the concentration of BMO required to yield a similar mutation frequency. Importantly, the concentrations of BDE that were genotoxic in vitro are nearly identical to the concentrations of BDE measured in blood and tissues of mice exposed to BD by inhalation. BD is genotoxic in mice, but not rats, following inhalation exposure and this is paralleled by species differences in observed tumor susceptibility. BD is not genotoxic in occupationally-exposed workers. The genetic basis for BD carcinogenicity appears to be primarily through induction of point mutations and deletion events mediated via the potent genotoxic metabolite, BDE. The genotoxic endpoints induced by BDE (e.g., deletion and point mutations) rather than BMO (e.g., point mutations) likely represent the underlying mechanism responsible for the striking species differences observed in the genotoxicity and carcinogenicity of BD in mice versus rats.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Epidemiological and mechanistic data suggest that 1,3-butadiene will not be carcinogenic to humans at exposures likely to be encountered in the environment or workplace. 785 44

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is a rodent carcinogen that is bioactivated to at least two genotoxic metabolites, 1,2-epoxybutene (EB) and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (DEB). The mutational spectrum for DEB at hprt in human TK6 lymphoblasts (TK6 cells) was determined and compared with the mutational spectrum from spontaneous mutants. A DEB exposure of 4 microM for 24 h resulted in an average 5-fold increase in the hprt mutant frequency. Hprt mutants for molecular analysis were isolated from TK6 cells exposed to 4 microM DEB for 24 h (51 DEB-induced mutants) and from a set of spontaneous mutants (n = 43) isolated from the same TK6 stock cell cultures. Molecular analyses of hprt mutations were done by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of hprt mRNA or exon-specific genomic PCR amplification of hprt followed by DNA sequencing of PCR products. There was an increased frequency of A:T-->T:A transversions among the DEB-induced mutants compared to spontaneous mutants (9/51; 18% DEB-induced compared to 2/43; 5% in spontaneous (one-way Fisher's exact test; P < or = 0.05). DEB-induced hprt mutants also had an increased frequency of genomic deletions affecting the 5' region of hprt (7/51; 14% DEB-induced compared to 1/43; 2% in spontaneous). Therefore, DEB is a mutagenic carcinogen that can induce genotoxicity by large deletions, rearrangements or single base substitution mutations.
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PMID:Analysis of hprt mutations occurring in human TK6 lymphoblastoid cells following exposure to 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane. 910 45

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is an indirect-acting mutagen that is bioactivated in laboratory animals to at least two mutagenic metabolites, 1,2-expoxy-3-butene (EB) and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (DEB). In the present study, the cytotoxicity, mutagenicity and mutational spectrum at hprt were determined after EB-exposure of human TK6 lymphoblastoid cells (TK6 cells). EB was cytotoxic at concentrations ranging from 200 to 1000 microM x 24 h; at 400 microM x 24 h, the cell survival relative to unexposed controls was approximately 10%. Exposure of TK6 cells to EB (400 microM x 24 h) resulted in a 5-9-fold increase in the hprt mutant frequency. Molecular characterization of EB-induced hprt mutants indicated that 78% of the mutations at hprt were single base substitutions. A significant (P < 0.05) increase in A:T-->T:A transversions was observed compared with spontaneous hprt mutants isolated during these studies. All of the A:T-->T:A transversions in EB-induced mutants occurred with the A in the non-transcribed strand. These data indicate that a primary mode of genotoxicity induced by EB in human TK6 cells is the induction of single base substitutions.
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PMID:Characterization of hprt mutations following 1,2-epoxy-3-butene exposure of human TK6 cells. 937 15

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is an indirect alkylating agent that has greater cancer potency in the mouse than in the rat. The purpose of the present study was to compare the mutagenic potency of BD at the hprt locus of T-lymphocytes of exposed mice and rats and to determine whether mutations induced in this marker gene can be used as a quantitative indicator for species differences in susceptibility to cancer. To this end, experiments were conducted to define the effects of exposure duration and the time elapsed after exposures on the frequency of hprt mutations (Mf) in T-cells from female B6C3F1 mice and F344 rats of similar age (4-5 weeks) when exposed to BD by inhalation. The accumulation of hprt mutations in T-cells from thymus was assessed in animals necropsied 2 weeks after exposure to 0 or 1250 ppm BD for 1 or 2 weeks, while the time course for the appearance of hprt mutant T-cells (i.e., the phenotypic expression and cell migration) in thymus and spleen was evaluated in animals necropsied at weekly/biweekly intervals up to 10 weeks after exposure for 2 weeks. At necropsy, T-cells were isolated from thymus and spleen and cultured in the presence of IL-2, concanavalin A, and 6-thioguanine (Walker and Skopek, Mutat. Res., 288, 151-162, 1993). BD exposures of 1 and 2 weeks led to mutagenic effects in mouse thymus, with the average Mfs being 3- and 5-fold greater than background values, respectively. In rat thymus, there was only a 1.7-fold increase in Mfs after 2 weeks of BD exposure. In the mutant expression experiment, hprt Mfs in thymus and spleen of both species increased for several weeks post-exposure and then declined. Hprt Mfs in thymus reached maximum levels at 2 weeks post-exposure in mice (Mfs = 11.3 +/- 2.4 x 10(-6)) and at 3 weeks post-exposure in rats (4.9 +/- 1.2 x 10(-6)), while hprt Mfs in spleen reached peak levels at 5 weeks post-exposure in mice (19.7 +/- 1.9 x 10(-6)) and 4 weeks post-exposure in rats (10.1 +/- 1.8 x 10(-6)). Background Mfs for mouse and rat thymus and spleen ranged from 1.6 +/- 0.3 x 10(-6) to 3.0 +/- 1.1 x 10(-6). Statistical analyses of the hprt Mf data for spleen demonstrated that, under these exposure conditions, the mutagenic potency of BD (represented by the difference in the areas under the phenotypic expression curves of treated versus control animals) was 5-fold greater in mice than in rats. The magnitude of the species differences in mutagenic potency, observed after 2 weeks of BD exposure, resembles the species differences in metabolism more closely than the species differences in cancer potency.
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PMID:Comparison of the mutagenic potency of 1,3-butadiene at the hprt locus of T-lymphocytes following inhalation exposure of female B6C3F1 mice and F344 rats. 966 40

1,3-Butadiene (BD) has been shown to be a potent animal carcinogen and a probable human carcinogen, yet the molecular mechanisms of BD genotoxicity and carcinogenicity still are not fully understood. Our hypothesis is that metabolites of BD induce specific structural changes in the human hprt gene like those observed in vitro in TK6 cells and in vivo in the mouse. Characteristic mutations in BD-exposed subjects can be identified and used as biomarkers for monitoring genotoxic effects associated with BD exposure. Molecular analysis of hprt mutant lymphocytes from BD-exposed workers and unexposed control subjects was carried out to identify changes in the structure of the hprt gene. A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay was used to detect exon deletions in 360 hprt mutant clones. We determined that exon deletions were significantly more frequent (P < 0.05) in BD-exposed workers (17.5%) than in control subjects (9.7%). Sequence analysis of hprt cDNA from 175 independent mutants indicated that the distribution of the types of mutations was different between the workers and the unexposed control subjects. There was a significant increase in -1 frameshift mutations in BD-exposed workers, predominantly in repeated DNA sequences, and single-base substitutions were decreased to 66% in the workers compared to 83% in the control subjects (P < 0.05). In addition to the spectral changes, hprt clonal assays revealed an elevation in mutant frequency in the lymphocytes of workers (N = 10) when compared with that in unexposed control subjects (N = 11; P < 0. 05). There also was a twofold increase of A:T --> T:A transversions in BD-exposed workers (16% in BD-exposed workers compared to 8% in controls, P = 0.25). Some of the BD-associated changes in mutational spectra observed in our study have the potential for application in monitoring genotoxic effects related to butadiene exposure.
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PMID:Molecular analysis of hprt mutant lymphocytes from 1, 3-butadiene-exposed workers. 1091 61

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is carcinogenic in mice and rats, with mice being more susceptible than rats to its carcinogenic effects. 1,3-Butadiene is mutagenic in the bone marrow and spleen cells of B6C3F1 lacI transgenic mice. The goal of this research was to assess the roles of two BD metabolites, 1,2-epoxy-3-butene (BDO) and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (BDO2), in the mutagenicity and mutational spectrum of the parent compound BD by determining the mutagenicity and mutational spectra of BDO and BDO2 in human and rodent cells in vitro and in vivo. In human TK6 lymphoblastoid cells (TK6 cells), BDO exposure increased the frequency of G.C-->A.T transitions and A.T-->T.A transversions (Fisher exact test; p < 0.05). The most striking difference in the type of base-substitution mutations between BDO-exposed and BDO-unexposed TK6 cells was the 19-fold increase in A.T-->T.A transversions. 1,2,3,4-Diepoxybutane increased the frequency of A.T-->T.A transversions (Fisher exact test; p < 0.05) and the frequency of deletions in exposed TK6 cells compared with unexposed controls. Exposure of Rat2 lacI transgenic fibroblasts (Rat2 cells) to BDO increased the frequency of three types of base-substitution mutations: G.C-->A.T transitions, G.C-->T.A transversions, and A.T-->T.A transversions. Exposure of Rat2 cells to BDO2-induced dose-dependent increases in micronuclei at exposure levels that apparently did not induce mutagenicity at the lacI transgene. The lack of detectable mutagenicity at the lacI transgene in Rat2 cells exposed to BDO2 probably reflects the poor recovery of large deletions by this lambda phage-based mutagenicity assay. Inhalation exposure of B6C3F1 lacI transgenic mice (lacI mice) and F344 lacI transgenic rats (lacI rats) to BDO (29.9 parts per million [ppm]; 6 hours/day; 5 days/week for 2 weeks) did not increase the lacI mutant frequency (MF) in bone marrow or spleen cells of mice and rats, but in the cells of mouse lung (a tumor target organ for BD), significant mutagenicity was observed. An increased lacI MF was also observed in the bone marrow cells of rats exposed to BDO. Inhalation exposure of lacI mice and lacI rats to BDO2 (3.8 ppm; 6 hours/day; 5 days/week for 2 weeks) did not increase the lacI MF in bone marrow or spleen cells of mice or in the spleen cells of rats. An increased lacI MF was observed in the bone marrow cells of rats exposed to BDO2. In the present study, BDO specifically induced G.C-->A.T and A.T-->T.A transversions in vitro at both the endogenous hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene and the lacI transgene in Rat2 cells. It also induced an increased frequency of G.C-->T.A transversions in Rat2 cells. These types of mutations also occur at an increased frequency in mice exposed to the parent compound, BD. This finding demonstrates the induction of consistent mutational types across biological systems by BDO and indicates that BDO, but not BDO2, probably has a role in mediating the mutations recovered at the lacI transgene in animals exposed to the parent compound, BD. Therefore, it is apparent that in mice exposed to BD at carcinogenic levels, BDO and BDO2 act in concert to mediate the range of genotoxic responses. These data demonstrate that certain DNA adducts (guanine or adenine) may be useful biomarkers for BD genetic effects. However, other DNA lesions that can account for BDO2-induced deletions and chromosomal alterations also need to be considered as biomarkers for BD-induced genotoxicity.
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PMID:1,3-butadiene: cancer, mutations, and adducts. Part II: Roles of two metabolites of 1,3-butadiene in mediating its in vivo genotoxicity. 1092 39

1,3-Butadiene (BD), an important chemical used mainly in the production of synthetic rubber, is a potent carcinogen in mice, a weak carcinogen in rats, and a suspected carcinogen in humans. To provide a better understanding of the mutagenic mechanisms involved in interspecies differences in BD-induced carcinogenesis, studies were conducted in rodents to test two hypotheses: (a) the mutagenic potency of BD at the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) locus of T lymphocytes (T cells) can be used to quantify interspecies differences in BD-induced carcinogenicity in exposed rodents and (b) comparison of the mutagenic potency and specificity of BD and racemic mixtures of two epoxy metabolites, 1,2-epoxy-3-butene (BDO) and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (BDO2), at the hprt locus of T cells can be used to define the relative contribution of each intermediate to observed BD mutagenicity in each species. The first hypothesis was investigated by determining the effects of exposure duration and elapsed time after exposures on hprt mutant frequencies (MFs) in T cells from thymus and spleen of female B6C3F1 mice and F344 rats (4 to 5 weeks old). In this study, rodents were exposed by inhalation to 0 or 1,250 parts per million (ppm) BD for up to 2 weeks, or to 0 or 625 ppm BD for up to 4 weeks (with all exposures 6 hours/day, 5 days/week). The second hypothesis was examined by defining the effects of exposure concentration and elapsed time after exposures on the hprt MFs in splenic T cells from mice and rats exposed by inhalation to BD (0, 20, 62.5, or 625 ppm), BDO (0, 2.5, or 25 ppm), or BDO2 (0, 2, or 4 ppm) for 4 weeks (all exposures 6 hours/day, 5 days/week). The hprt MFs were measured weekly or biweekly using the T cell cloning assay for up to 10 weeks after the last exposure. The mutagenic potency of BD (represented by the difference in the areas under the mutant T cell "manifestation" curves [or the "change in MFs over time"] of exposed versus control animals) was significantly greater in mice (4.4-fold) than in rats following 2 weeks of exposure to 1,250 ppm BD. Mutagenic potency in mice was 8.5-fold greater than that in rats following 4 weeks of exposure to 625 ppm BD. These hprt MF data provide the first evidence that BD is mutagenic in the rat, albeit the mutagenic response was significantly less than that observed in similarly exposed mice. In addition, the MF data from the two exposure-duration studies indicate that both exposure concentration and exposure duration are important in determining the magnitude of the mutagenic response to BD. The relative contribution of BDO versus BDO2 to overall BD mutagenicity was evaluated by exposing mice and rats to carefully chosen concentrations of BD and racemic mixtures of BDO and BDO2 (that is, 62.5, 2.5, and 4.0 ppm, respectively) and comparing the mutagenic potency of each compound when comparable blood levels of metabolites were achieved. The resulting MF data indicate that (+/-)-BDO2 is a major contributor to the mutagenicity of BD in mice at lower BD exposure levels (< or = 62.5 ppm), whereas other metabolites and stereochemical configurations are responsible for mutations in BD-exposed rats and for the incremental mutagenic effects at higher exposure levels in mice. Molecular analysis of hprt cDNA from expanded T cell clones from control and BD-exposed mice demonstrated an increased frequency of large deletions in exposed animals (p = 0.016), presumably associated with in situ formation of (+/-)-BDO2, meso-BDO2, or both. Results of these mutagenicity experiments, along with data from collaborative studies of DNA adducts from the same animals, should provide a better understanding of the interspecies variation in carcinogenic response to BD and improve the extrapolation of rodent data to the estimation of cancer risk in exposed persons.
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PMID:1,3-butadiene: cancer, mutations, and adducts. Part III: In vivo mutation of the endogenous hprt genes of mice and rats by 1,3-butadiene and its metabolites. 1092 40

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is a major commodity chemical used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber and various plastics and has been shown to be a potent animal carcinogen and a probable human carcinogen. The bioactivation of BD to reactive epoxides, and the balance between activation and detoxication of these reactive metabolites, is thought to play a critical role in the genotoxic and carcinogenic effects of BD. The detoxication of reactive BD metabolites involves enzymatic conjugation with glutathione by glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) and by hydrolysis, a reaction mediated by microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH). Since polymorphisms in genes of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes such as mEH may influence individual susceptibility to adverse health effects from BD exposure, we tested the hypothesis that the mEH Tyr113His polymorphism increases sensitivity to the genotoxic effects of BD in exposed workers. We used the autoradiographic hprt mutant lymphocyte assay as a biomarker of effect to identify genotoxicity associated with BD exposure in 49 workers from two styrene/butadiene polymer plants in Southeast Texas. Exposure to BD was assessed by collecting breathing zone air samples using passive badge dosimeters for three full 12 h work shifts 25, 20 and 14 days before blood was collected for genotyping and for the hprt assay. We genotyped the study participants for the Tyr113His polymorphism in the mEH gene and also for deletion polymorphisms in the glutathione S-transferase genes, GSTM1 and GSTT1, as potential biomarkers of susceptibility to BD. Our data indicate that the majority of the study subjects (67%) were exposed to very low levels of BD of <150 parts per billion (p.p.b.) time-weighted average (TWA). In some workers, however, we found levels of BD exposures that exceeded a TWA of 2000 p.p.b. Our data indicate a significant (P < 0.05) 2-fold increase in frequencies of hprt variant (mutant) lymphocytes (Vf) in workers exposed to >150 p.p.b. BD, compared with workers exposed to <150 p.p.b. There was no significant effect from individual GSTM1, GSTT1 or mEH genotypes in workers exposed to <150 p.p.b. BD. In workers exposed to >150 p.p.b., individuals with at least one polymorphic mEH His allele (His/His or His/Tyr genotypes) had a significant (P < 0.001) 3-fold increase in Vf (mean Vf x 10(-6) +/- SE = 13.25 +/- 1.78) compared with individuals with the Tyr/Tyr genotype (mean Vf x 10(-6) +/- SE = 4.02 +/- 0.72). There was no significant effect from individual GSTM1 or GSTT1 polymorphisms, but combined polymorphism analysis showed that the genetic damage was highest in individuals who had at least one mEH His allele and either the GSTM1 and/or GSTT1 null genotypes (hprt Vf = 14.19 +/- 2.30 x10(-6)). In contrast, this response was not observed in individuals exposed to levels of BD < 150 p.p.b. These results indicate that polymorphisms in the mEH gene may play a significant role in human sensitivity to the genotoxic effects of BD exposure, and that the hprt mutant lymphocyte assay can serve as a sensitive biomarker of genotoxicity for monitoring occupational exposure to BD in industrial settings. Additional investigations in larger populations of workers are needed to confirm our results and to characterize the possible role of additional mEH polymorphisms in the induction of genetic damage associated with occupational exposure to butadiene.
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PMID:Human sensitivity to 1,3-butadiene: role of microsomal epoxide hydrolase polymorphisms. 1123 81

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is a multisite carcinogen and is mutagenic in multiple tissues of B6C3F1 mice. BD is bioactivated to at least three directly mutagenic metabolites: 1,2-epoxybutene (EB), 1,2-epoxy-3,4-butanediol (EBD), and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane (DEB). However, the contribution of these individual metabolites to the carcinogenicity and in vivo mutatidnal spectrum of BD is uncertain. To assess the role of two BD metabolites EB and DEB in the in vivo mutagenicity of the parent compound BD, we examined the in vitro mutational spectra of EB and DEB in human and rodent cells. We also examined the in vivo mutagenicity and mutational spectrum of inhaled EB in the lung. In the bone marrow and spleen of B6C3F1 laci transgenic mice, BD-induced an increased frequency of the identical class of point mutations at A:T base pairs: AT-->GC transitions and AT-->TA transversions. BD exposure also induced an increased frequency of GC-->AT transitions in the spleen that was not observed in bone marrow, demonstrating tissue-specific differences in mutation spectrum. Exposure of Rat2 laci transgenic cells and human TK6 lymphoblasts to EB-induced an increased frequency of AT-->TA transversions. DEB exposure induced an increased frequency of AT-->TA transversions and partial deletions at hprt in human cells. In Rat laci transgenic cells, DEB was not mutagenic at laci but induced an increased frequency of micronuclei. In contrast to inhaled BD, inhaled DEB and EB were not mutagenic in the bone marrow or spleen. However, EB was mutagenic in the lungs. In the lung of mice, EB-induced specific increases in GC-->AT transitions, AT-->TA transversions, and deletion events. AT-->TA transversions are the most consistent mutation observed across biological systems following in vivo exposure to BD or in vitro exposures to EB and DEB. Although, BD exposure in mice induces chromosomal alterations and single base substitutions, the specific BD metabolite that induces the genetic events leading to tumors is uncertain. At present, it appears that only DEB can effectively induce this range of mutagenic events at levels of this metabolite that occur in the blood of mice exposed to BD. Detailed investigations to identify relevant biomarkers of BD exposure and response, particularly DNA adducts or lesions, that can be biologically linked to the range of genotoxic events known to occur in mice exposed to BD are needed.
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PMID:Mutational spectrum of 1,3-butadiene and metabolites 1,2-epoxybutene and 1,2,3,4-diepoxybutane to assess mutagenic mechanisms. 1139 99

1,3-Butadiene (BD), which is used to manufacture synthetic rubber, is a mutagen and carcinogen. Because past occupational exposures have been associated with an increased risk of leukemia, there has been a dramatic reduction in workplace exposure standards. The health benefits of these reduced levels of occupational exposure to BD will be difficult to evaluate using relatively insensitive traditional epidemiological studies; however, biomarkers can be used to determine whether there are genotoxic effects associated with recent exposures to BD. In past studies of BD-exposed workers in Southeast Texas, we observed an increase in the frequency of lymphocytes with mutations in a reporter gene, hprt. Frequencies of hprt mutant cells correlated with air levels of BD and with the concentration of a BD metabolite in urine. Average exposures to 1-3 parts per million (p.p.m.) of BD were associated with a threefold increase in hprt variant (mutant) frequencies (Vfs). We now report results from a follow-up study of workers in a synthetic rubber plant in Southeast Texas. Thirty-seven workers were evaluated on three occasions over a 2-week period for exposure to BD by the use of personal organic vapor monitors and by determining the concentration of a BD metabolite in urine. The frequency of hprt mutants was determined, by autoradiography, with lymphocyte samples collected 2 weeks after the final exposure measurement. Based on their work locations, the study participants were assigned to high-exposure (N=22) or low-exposure (N=15) groups. The BD exposure, +/-standard error, of the workers in the high-exposure group (1.65+/-0.52 p.p.m.) was significantly greater than the low-exposure group (0.07+/-0.03 p.p.m.; P<0.01). The frequency of hprt mutant lymphocytes was also significantly different in the two groups (high, 10.67+/-1.5 x 10(-6); low, 3.54+/-0.6 x 10(-6); P<0.001). The concentration of the urine metabolite was greater in the high-exposure group, but the difference was not significant. The correlation coefficient between hprt Vf and BD exposure levels was r=0.44 (CI(95), 0.11-0.69; P=0.011). This study reproduced the findings from a previous study at this plant. Although studies of butadiene-exposed workers in other countries have not detected an effect of exposure on frequencies of hprt mutant lymphocytes, we have repeatedly observed this result in our studies in Texas.
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PMID:Assessment of butadiene exposure in synthetic rubber manufacturing workers in Texas using frequencies of hprt mutant lymphocytes as a biomarker. 1139 7


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