Abstract

Preliminary evidence shows that exposure to the carcinogen, styrene-7, 8-oxide (SO) which arises from reactions of styrene during the production of reinforced plastics and from metabolism of styrene, causes significant increases of SO biomarkers in workers. Biomarkers are the adducts of SO with DNA and serum albumin and sister chromatid exchanges. The proposed study is intended to determine the relative contributions of inhaled styrene and SO to the dose of SO in the blood of workers in the reinforced plastics industry. Part one of this project involves recruitment of 100 workers within 17 sites in the reinforced plastics industry. A measurement of airborne exposure of styrene and SO for each worker twice during one year will be done as well as collection of blood samples. This project is being submitted to the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Human Subjects and the GCRC in order to complete one of the secondary objectives: to determine whether SO per se is the source of background adducts of SO in human blood by using ultratrace analyses of SO in the blood of 100 persons without occupational exposures to styrene or SO. Protein and DNA adducts will also be measured in these persons to allow comparison of background adduct levels with those of SO in the blood.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
Type
General Clinical Research Centers Program (M01)
Project #
3M01RR000046-39S1
Application #
6297265
Study Section
Project Start
1998-12-01
Project End
1999-11-30
Budget Start
1998-10-01
Budget End
1999-09-30
Support Year
39
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Type
DUNS #
078861598
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599

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