ISSN:
1432-0738
Keywords:
Dosimetry
;
Styrene
;
Styrene oxide
;
Hemoglobin adducts
;
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Styrene oxide, which is the genotoxically active metabolite of styrene, reacts in vivo with carboxylic acid residues in hemoglobin forming phenylhydroxyethyl esters. Mild alkali hydrolysis cleaves these ester adducts, yielding styrene glycol, which in human blood labelled in vitro with14C-styrene oxide accounted for 15% of the total radioactivity covalently bound to the protein. A quantitative assay procedure has been developed for measuring the base released styrene glycol in globin. The method utilizes solvent extraction followed by trimethylsilyl ether derivatization and separation and quantitation by capillary gas chromatography with selective ion recording mass spectrometry. Globin labelled in vitro with d8-styrene oxide was used as the internal standard. The method was used to establish a dose-response relationship in rats given single i.p. doses of styrene oxide (83.3–833 μmol/kg body wt). The method, which allows quantitation of the adducts down to levels of 15 pmol/g globin, has the potential to act as a dosimeter for industrial workers exposed to styrene or styrene oxide.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02072031
Permalink
