Erythroid progenitor cells that survive benzene exposure exhibit greater resistance to the toxic benzene metabolites benzoquinone and hydroquinone |
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Authors: | David J Neun Arthur Penn Carroll A Snyder |
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Institution: | (1) Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016, USA , US |
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Abstract: | Benzene is a well known hematotoxicant which induces hematopoietic dyscrasias of varying intensities in different individuals
and even in different strains of the same experimental animal species. Although there is ample evidence that diverse responses
to benzene are related to differences in benzene metabolism, we have recently provided evidence implicating differences in
host target cell susceptibility to these diverse responses to benzene. The present study extends our previous work and concerns
strain-specific differences in marrow progenitor cells that survive benzene exposure. Two mouse strains (Swiss-Webster and
C57Bl/6J) which respond to benzene exposure with different intensities of bone marrow cytotoxicity were used. Bone marrow
cells from benzene-exposed and untreated mice were cultured with one of five benzene metabolites: 1,4-benzoquinone (BQ), catechol
(C), hydroquinone (HQ), muconic acid (MA) or phenol (P) and the abilities of these cells to produce erythroid (CFU-e) or granulocyte/macrophage
colonies (GM-CFU-c) were assessed. In both strains, marrow cells isolated from benzene-exposed mice showed a higher percentage
of plated CFU-e surviving culture with BQ, HQ or MA than marrow cells isolated from control mice. In contrast, both strains
of benzene-exposed mice displayed decreased percentages of plated CFU-e surviving culture with catechol than cells isolated
from control mice. Only one condition (the culturing of cells with HQ under GM-CFU-c forming conditions) showed any strain-specific
difference in plating efficiency. In all, 20 possible combinations of benzene metabolites and cell types were examined (5
metabolites × 2 progenitor cell types × 2 strains). With seven of these combinations, the colony-forming efficiencies were
higher for plated cells isolated from benzene-exposed mice than from untreated mice. With three combinations, the colony-forming
efficiencies were lower for cells from benzene-exposed mice, and for ten combinations, there were no changes in plating efficiencies.
Possible mechanisms for an acquired resistance to the toxicities of benzene metabolites were explored by measuring the concentrations
of hepatic and bone marrow sulfhydryl (SH) groups in cells isolated from benzene-exposed and untreated mice. In both strains,
benzene exposure induced no changes in hepatic SH concentrations, but the SH content of bone marrow was more than doubled
after benzene exposure in both strains. These results suggest that a fraction of hematopoietic progenitor cells are able to
survive severe benzene exposure and produce progeny because of a marked increase in marrow SH groups which react with electrophilic
benzene metabolites. Moreover, this protective mechanism occurs in two mouse strains with differing susceptibilities to benzene.
Received: 23 November 1993/Accepted: 26 April 1994 |
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Keywords: | : Benzene – Haematopoiesis – Mice |
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