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Effects of neonatal exposure to paint thinner on the development of swimming in rats.

Rats were exposed to paint thinner twice a day for a period of 10 minutes on Days 1 through 30 of postnatal life. The subsequent effects upon physical development, swimming ability and escape latency from water were evaluated. Maturation of swimming behavior and general physical development were delayed about 2-4 days in the experimental animals compared with non-exposed littermate controls. The results of these experiments suggest that exposure to this organic solvent during the early postnatal period interferes with the development of the cortico-subcortical neural structures underlying swimming and locomotion.

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Chronic neurobehavioural effects in paint formulators exposed to solvents and noise.

Twenty-one male paint formulators with an average age of 41.3 years (range 27-53), educational level of 7.4 years (range 5-10) and exposure level of 0.09 times Threshold Limit Value (TLV) index of solvent mixture (range 0.003-0.24 times TLV-index) for 20.2 years (range 7-39) were studied with a battery of neurobehavioural performance tests including digit span, digit symbol, Benton visual retention, finger tapping, grooved peg board, and aiming test. A group of 21 male workers matched for age (mean 40.8 years, range 25-53) and education (mean 6.9 years, range 5-12), and with no history of exposure to neurotoxic agents were selected as controls. In all the neurobehavioural tests, the exposed workers' performances were observed to be poorer than the controls'. Statistically significant differences were observed in digit span, grooved peg board, and the Z score after adjusting for age, level of education and ethnicity. The least square means for digit span were 11.7 (standard error [SE] 0.77) and 9.2 (SE 0.79); for grooved peg board were 60.5 (SE 2.1) and 69.7 (SE 2.1); and for neurobehavioural Z score were 0.02 (SE 0.11) and 0.50 (SE 0.11) in the controls and exposed workers respectively. The exposed group also performed significantly poorer in aiming test error score and digit span when compared to the controls after adjusted for age, education and ethnicity. The least square means for aiming test error score were 6.5 (SE 2.7) and 12.8 (SE 2.8) for the controls and exposed workers respectively.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Adult↗

Interval effect of beta-irradiation and subsequent 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide painting on skin tumor induction in mice.

Skin tumors were produced in female ICR mice by 90Sr-90Y beta-irradiation and subsequent 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide painting. The doses were chosen so as to produce no tumors with a single agent alone; the interval between two treatments ranged from 11 to 408 days. The tumor induction rate was found to be at almost the same level (average, 12.4%) for each interval. The results indicate the persistence of the latent carcinogenic alterations in the beta-irradiated mouse skin.

4-Nitroquinoline-1-oxide↗

Translocation t(3;22)(q27;q11) in non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma: chromosome painting and molecular studies.

Translocation t(3;22)(q27;q11) has recently been recognized as a recurrent abnormality in non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma (NHL). A new gene, LAZ3, has been shown to be involved in NHL with 3q27 rearrangement. Two patients with B-cell NHL were studied by chromosome painting and Southern blot analysis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization to metaphase chromosomes was shown to be an easy way to detect the chromosomal abnormality even in metaphase cells with poorly defined chromosomes. The gene LAZ3 was rearranged in one patient in the 'major translocation cluster region'. The comigration of rearranged LAZ3 and of IGL bands suggests that the translocation resulted in the juxtaposition of the two genes. This juxtaposition makes possible a potential deregulation of the LAZ3 gene expression, as previously shown for the MYC and BCL2 genes in Burkitt and follicular lymphoma translocations.

Aged↗

Translocation t(1;22) mimicking t(1;19) in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia as revealed by chromosome painting.

The karyotype of a boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) presenting with numerical and structural chromosome aberrations as determined by Giemsa-banding was further investigated using chromosome painting (CP). A translocation t(11;18)(q23;q21) was verified by this approach, and gain of chromosome 21 material due to a structural rearrangement was detected. Moreover, an unbalanced translocation of the long arm of chromosome 1, resembling the well known translocation t(1;19), was demonstrated to involve chromosome 22 instead of chromosome 19. Immunophenotyping of the leukemic blasts led to the diagnosis common ALL (CD19+, CD10+, clg-). Our case indicates that in ALL a translocation t(1;19) may be mimicked by other chromosomal rearrangements, and that CP may efficiently complement conventional cytogenetics in the exact characterization of the involved chromosomes.

Child↗

Characterization of three de novo derivative chromosomes 16 by "reverse chromosome painting" and molecular analysis.

We have analyzed three de novo chromosome 16 rearrangements--two with a 16p+ chromosome and one a 16q+--none of which could be fully characterized by conventional cytogenetics. In each case, flow karyotypes have been produced, and the aberrant chromosome has been isolated by flow sorting. The origin of the additional material has been ascertained by amplifying and labeling the DNA of the abnormal chromosome by degenerate-oligonucleotide-primer-PCR and hybridizing it in situ to normal metaphase spreads (reverse chromosome painting). Both 16p+ chromosomes contain more than 30 Mb of DNA from the short arm of chromosome 9(9p21.2-pter), while the 16q+ contains approximately 9 Mb of DNA from 2q37. The breakpoints on chromosome 16 have been localized in each case; the two breakpoints on the short arm are at different points within the terminal band, 16p13.3. The breakpoint on the long arm of chromosome 16 is very close to (within 230 kb of) the 16q telomere. Determination of the regions of monosomy and trisomy allowed the observed phenotypes to be compared with other reported cases involving aneuploidy for these regions.

Adolescent↗

[Selective chromosome painting using in situ hybridization].

A method of in situ hybridization with entire chromosome-specific DNA libraries for visualizing individual human chromosomes has been developed and applied to the detection of structural aberrations in both metaphase and interphase cells. Unlabeled human genomic DNA is used to inhibit the cross-hybridization of repetitive sequences in the library that bind to multiple chromosomes. The remaining single-stranded DNA is hybridized to specimens of interest and detected with fluorescent or enzyme labeled biotin conjugates following post-hybridization washes. This general approach is called "chromosome painting" or "chromosomal in situ suppression (CISS)" hybridization. In the present report, DNA inserts from recombinant libraries from chromosomes 1, 4, and 9 has been applied on controls and patients in order to decorate specifically their complementary chromosomes. Numerical changes, deletions and chromosomal translocations involving these chromosomes can be strikingly visualized.

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Application of 5-bromo-2'deoxyuridine as a label for in situ hybridization in chromosome microdissection and painting, and 3' OH DNA end labeling for apoptosis.

We have utilized 5-bromo-2'deoxyuridine (BrdU) substituted DNA as a probe for a number of applications including, principally, for chromosome painting by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) but also for DNA end-labeling to detect apoptotic cell death and for filter hybridization. Br-dUTP was used as a substitute for biotin or digoxigenin-dUTP in probe labeling techniques, such as random priming, nick translation, end-labeling or PCR. An especially useful application is that it may be incorporated into probe DNA while cells or plasmids in bacteria are growing in the presence of BrdU. This can be particularly advantageous when large quantities of probe are needed, since the cost per mole of digoxigenin-dUTP or biotin-dUTP is nearly 1000 times that of Br-dUTP. Also, if probe is prepared by growth in BrdU, the difference in cost to prepare equal quantities of labeled DNA is more than 10,000 times greater for biotin-dUTP.

Animals↗

Comparative amplification analysis of human glioma tissue and glioma derived fragment spheroids using reverse chromosome painting (RCP).

Tumor fragment spheroids (TFS) represent an organotypic in vitro model with preserved cytoarchitecture and matrix components of the native tumor in situ. In order to determine whether DNA amplifications within gliomas remain stable in spheroid culture, tumor fragment spheroids were established from 15 human gliomas including 14 glioblastoma and one anaplastic astrocytoma. Native tumor tissue, monolayers as well as TFS were evaluated for DNA amplification using reverse chromosome painting (RCP). A modified protocol for DNA isolation from TFS was established. Amplifications in the original tumor tissue were found on chromosomes 12q13-15, tel, 4q12-13 and 11p12-13, an amplification on 11p12-13 is reported for the first time. By RCP we could demonstrate that amplified domains on 12q13-15 and 4q12-13 in three tumors were maintained in TFS whereas the amplification on 11p12-13 could not be confirmed in TFS. In monolayer cultures, all amplifications which were detected in primary culture were lost until passage 5. The results of this first comparative study of DNA amplification in glioma by analyzing native tumor tissue and tumor fragment spheroids enables us to conclude that TFS seems to be a promising in vitro model for the study of DNA amplification under cell culture conditions.

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Molecular cytogenetic analysis of a nontumorigenic human breast epithelial cell line that eventually turns tumorigenic: validation of an analytical approach combining karyotyping, comparative genomic hybridization, chromosome painting, and single-locus fluorescence in situ hybridization.

The immortalized, nontumorigenic human breast epithelial cell line HMT-3522 has been used as a model for premalignant and, eventually, malignant development. During cultivation, the karyotype evolution was followed. At an early stage, a very long constant phase showed a near-diploid karyotype, with only five marker chromosomes. DNA from this phase was used for comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) analysis, confirming a previously known MYC amplification, and the integration sites were subsequently determined by single-locus fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Furthermore, gains of 5q22-qter and 20q11-qter and deletion of most of chromosome 6 (6p23-qter) were detected by CGH. Because of uncertainty about some of the indicated changes, including a deletion of Ip35-pter, the CGH findings were investigated more closely by chromosome painting, leading to a revision of the karyotype: 45,XX,del(I)(p35),-6,dup(8)(pter-->qter::qter-->q24),der(12) t(6;12)(p23; p13),der(14)t(5;14)(q22;q32.3),der(17)t(8;17;20)(17pter-->17q25 ::8qter--> 8q23::8q24-->8qter::8q24-->8qter:: 8q23-->8q24.1::20q11-->20qter). Some karyotypic changes were confirmed by CGH; others had to be revised; and, in the Ip35 region, classical cytogenetics seems superior to CGH. However, CGH revealed a karyotypically unsuspected dup(20q) that might be of special relevance to breast tumor initiation or progression. Our study confirms that CGH is supplementary to current technologies, e.g., karyotyping and Southern analysis, but cannot replace them. In addition, our cell line turned out to be an excellent model for comparison among the different methods. The results imply that future cytogenetic analyses of complex karyotypes should be based on a combination of karyotyping, CGH, and FISH.

Breast↗

Dose reconstruction for individuals exposed to ionizing radiation using chromosome painting.

To be most useful, a biomarker for dose reconstruction should employ an end point that is highly quantitative, stable with time and easily measured. Reciprocal translocations have been shown to be a promising biomarker that is linked to both prior exposure and risk, and they can be measured easily and quantitatively using fluorescence in situ hybridization. In contrast to other biomarkers that are available, the frequency of reciprocal translocations in individuals exposed to whole-body radiation is stable with time after exposure, has rather small interindividual variability and can be measured accurately at low levels of exposure. Results from recent studies demonstrate that measurements of reciprocal translocation frequencies, facilitated by chromosome painting, can be used to reconstruct radiation dose for individuals exposed in the distant past.

Animals↗

[A comparative chromosome map between human and Hylobates hoolock built by chromosome painting].

We established chromosomal homologies between all human chromosomes except Y and those of Hylobates hoolock by chromosome painting (chromosome in situ suppression hybridization with human chromosome-specific DNA libraries). Human chromosomes 9,13,15,18,21,22,X libraries hybridized to single G-banding H. hoolock chromosomal region, other human DNA libraries showed at least two homologous segments in H. hoolock chromosomes. 59 segments homologous to one of 22 human autosomes were detected in 18 H. hoolock autosomes. There were at least 39 translocations. Thus an uniquivocally high degree of synteny between human and H. hoolock was confirmed. This will finally allow H. hoolock to be integrated into the overall picture of chromosomal evolution in Hylobatids.

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Automatic detection of stable and unstable chromosome aberrations visualized by three-color imaging after fluorescence in situ hybridization with a painting and a pancentromeric DNA probe.

Two-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in combination with digital image analysis was used to develop an automatic system for the detection and classification of chromosome aberrations. Algorithms were developed for the automatic thresholding of the three digitized images: an FITC image representing specific painted chromosomes, a TRITC image representing the centromeres of all chromosomes, and a DAPI image representing all the counterstained chromosomes. A further algorithm was developed for the automatic classification of the different types of chromosome aberrations, such as translocations, dicentrics, and fragments. For this study, a dataset of 252 metaphases were digitized and analyzed automatically as well as manually. Of these metaphases, 81.3% could be correctly classified by the algorithm. The error rate was reduced to 9.3% by automatically excluding the detected clusters and artifacts. The average analysis time per metaphase was 34.5 s without any user intervention.

Adenocarcinoma↗