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  • Title: Genotoxicity and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon analysis of environmental tobacco smoke samples from restaurants.
    Author: Husgafvel-Pursiainen K, Sorsa M, Møller M, Benestad C.
    Journal: Mutagenesis; 1986 Jul; 1(4):287-92. PubMed ID: 3331668.
    Abstract:
    Acetone-extracted samples of airborne particulate matter collected in three restaurants were analysed for their content of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and related polynuclear aromatic compounds (PAC) as well as for genotoxic activity using the Salmonella/microsome assay (strains TA98 and TA100) and sister chromatid exchange (SCE) induction in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell cultures. The total particulate matter varied considerably in the restaurants, being 1.37 mg/m3 at the highest; in the same restaurant the highest amount of total PAHs (168 ng/m3) was also detected. Altogether, 13-22 individual PACs were identified in the samples, ranging from phenanthrene to benzothionaphthene. All of the six samples caused significant increases both in bacterial revertant and SCE frequencies. In the Salmonella assay, the mutagenic activity detected was primarily with metabolic activation. However, in the CHO cell cultures the induction of SCEs was also seen without an exogenous metabolic activation system. The cytotoxicity of the extracts limited the concentration range tested in the SCE assay. Only a partial correspondence of the total PAH content with the genotoxic activity of the samples was found. The genotoxicity of restaurant air exceeded by one to two orders of magnitude the previously reported activities detected by similar methods in urban outdoor and indoor air samples.
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