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Differential protein adduction by seven organophosphorus pesticides in both brain and thymus

Medical Research Council Applied Neuroscience Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom

Mabruka Tarhoni

Medical Research Council Applied Neuroscience Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom

Alexandra J Rathbone

Medical Research Council Applied Neuroscience Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom

David E Ray

Medical Research Council Applied Neuroscience Group, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, United Kingdom, david.ray{at}nottingham.ac.uk

There is a need for mechanistic understanding of the lasting ill health reported in several studies of workers exposed to organophosphorus (OP) pesticide. Although the acute toxicity is largely explicable by acetylcholinesterase inhibition and the lasting effects of frank poisoning by direct excitotoxicity or indirect consequences of the cholinergic syndrome, effects at lower levels of exposure would not be predicted from these mechanisms. Similarly, reversible interactions with nicotinic and muscarinic receptors in adults would not predict continuing ill health. Many OP pesticides produce protein adduction, and the lasting nature of this makes it a candidate mechanism for the production of continuing ill health. We found significant adduction of partially characterized protein targets in both rat brain and thymus by azamethiphos, chlorfenvinphos, chlorpyrifos—oxon, diazinon—oxon, dichlorvos and malaoxon, in vitro and pirimiphos-methyl in vivo. The diversity in the adduction pattern seen across these agents at low dose levels means that any longer term effects of adduction would be specific to specific organophosphates, rather than generic. This presents a challenge to epidemiology, as most exposures are to different agents over time. However, some adducted proteins are also expressed in blood, notably albumin, and so may provide exposure measures to increase the power of future epidemiological studies. Human & Experimental Toxicology (2007) 26, 347—353

Key Words: biomarkers of exposure • brain • organophosphates • organophosphorus pesticides • protein adducts • thymus

Human & Experimental Toxicology, Vol. 26, No. 4, 347-354 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0960327107074617


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