Avaliação da mutagenicidade dos corantes Sudan III, Vat Green 3, Reactive Orange 16 e Reactive Black 5 por meio do ensaio de micronúcleos em células HepG2 / Evaluation of the mutagenicity of the dyes Sudan III, Vat Green 3, Reactive Orange 16, and Reactive Black 5 by using the micronucleus asay in HepG2 cells

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

09/03/2012

RESUMO

The colors have always caused fascination in mankind. Throughout history, colored compounds have always been considered attractive tools in industrial activities. The synthetic dyes are widely used in textile industry, paper and photography printing, in pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries. These compounds are considered important environmental contaminants, and they can cause serious risks to wildlife and humans. Despite the large number of dyes available, studies on the toxicity of these compounds are scarce and little is known about the genotoxic effects of these substances. This study evaluated the genotoxic potential of the dyes Sudan III, Vat Green 3, Reactive Orange 16 and Reactive Black 5 using the micronucleus assay in HepG2 cells. The dyes Sudan III and, Reactive Orange 16, do not induce an increase statistically significant, in the total number of micronuclei when compared to controls. This result shows that these dyes are not able to induce chromosomal mutations in the cell type under the conditions tested. However, the dyes Vat Green 3 and Reactive Black 5 induced mutagenicity, following a dose-response effect, in which there is an increase of micronuclei until the concentration of 25.0 ?g/mL for Vat Green 3 and 0.5 ?g/mL for Reactive Black 5, with p <0.05. There were no significant differences between the NDI calculated for each treatment and control of the dyes studied, indicating that these dyes do not interfere in HepG2 cell proliferation. Thus, the textile dyes Vat Green 3 and Reactive Black 5 are able to induce chromosomal mutations in HepG2 cells, and the dye Reactive Black 5 is more mutagenic than the dye Vat Green 3, since it induced mutations in cellular system tested at lower concentrations. The results of this study indicate that each one of these important environmental contaminants should be assessed individually in order to protect the environment, thus ensuring the protection of human health.

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células hepg2 ensaio de micronúcleos hepg2 cells micronucleus assay reactive black 5 reactive black 5 reactive orange 16 reactive orange 16 sudan iii sundan iii vat green 3 vat green 3

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