1. Comparative genotoxic potential of 27 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in three human cell lines
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Florence Tomasetig, Marc Audebert, Jean Pierre Cravedi, Alexandre R.R. Pery, Vanessa Graillot, C. Tebby, Florence Anna Zeman, ToxAlim (ToxAlim), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Purpan (INPT - EI Purpan), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS), Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes (ECOSYS), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Métabolisme et Xénobiotiques (ToxAlim-MeX), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3)
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Modelization ,0301 basic medicine ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Model parameters ,Toxicology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Cell Line ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,In vitro ,Cancer risk assessment ,polycyclic compounds ,medicine ,Humans ,H2AX ,Mutagenicity Tests ,Toxic equivalent factor ,Chemistry ,Low dose ,Genetic Variation ,General Medicine ,Human cell ,Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,[SDV.TOX]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Toxicology ,Environmental chemistry ,Genotoxicity ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,DNA Damage ,Environmental Monitoring ,Mutagens - Abstract
International audience; Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) form a family of compounds that are generally found in complex mixtures. PAHs can lead to the development of carcinogenesis. The Toxicity Equivalent Factor (TEF) approach has been suggested for estimating the toxicity of PAHs, however, due to the relative weakness of available data, TEF have not been applied for the risk characterization of PAHs as food contaminants in Europe. The determination of new TEFs for a large number of PAHs could overcome some limitations of the current method and improve cancer risk assessment. The present investigation aimed at deriving new TEFs for PAHs, based on their genotoxic effect measured in vitro and analyzed with mathematical models. For this purpose, we used a genotoxicity assay (gamma H2AX) with three human cell lines to analyze the genotoxic properties of 27 selected PAHs after 24 h treatment. For 11 compounds, we did not detect any genotoxic potential. For the remaining 16 PAHs, the concentration-response for genotoxic effect was modelled with the Hill equation; equivalency between PAHs at low dose was assessed by applying constraints to the model parameters. We developed for each compound, in each cell line, Genotoxic Equivalent Factor (GEF). Calculated GEF for the tested PAHs were similar in all cell lines and generally higher than the TEF usually used. These new equivalent factors for PAHs should improve cancer risk assessment.
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- 2020