TY  - JOUR
A1  - Başaran, Nurşen
A1  - Duydu, Yalçın
A1  - Üstündağ, Aylin
A1  - Taner, Gökçe
A1  - Aydin Dilsiz, Sevtap
A1  - Anlar, Hatice Gül
A1  - Yalçin, Can Özgür
A1  - Bacanli, Merve
A1  - Golka, Klaus
A1  - Schwerdtle, Tanja
A1  - Bolt, Hermann M.
T1  - Environmental boron exposure does not induce DNA damage in lymphocytes and buccal cells of females DNA damage in lymphocytes and buccal cells of boron exposed females
T2  - Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology
N2  - Boron (B) compounds are essential for plants and animals and beneficial for humans in nutritional amounts. I animals and humans increasing evidence have shown beneficial effects on B compounds on nutrition and on antioxidant status. The genotoxic effects of environmental B exposure in women living in boron-rich and boronpoor areas was examined in this study. For this purpose, the DNA damage in the lymphocytes and buccal cells of females were assessed by Comet and micronucleus (MN) assays respectively. No significant difference was observed in the DNA damage of the lymphocytes of B exposed groups of female volunteers in Comet assay. Even buccal micronucleus (MN) frequency observed in the high exposure group was significantly lower than the low exposure group (p < 0.05). The results of this study came to the same conclusions of the previous studies that boron does not induce DNA damage even under extreme exposure conditions.
KW  - Boric acid
KW  - Boron exposure
KW  - DNA damage
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49446
SN  - 0946-672X
VL  - 53
SP  - 150
EP  - 153
PB  - Elsevier B.V.
CY  - München
ER  -