Taylor and Francis Group, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 4(19), p. 1089-1101, 2012
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2012.702042
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Gasoline constitutes a mixture of chemicals that contain well-known genotoxicants. Thus, chronic occupational exposure to gasoline may be considered to possess genotoxic risk. In this study, the frequencies of total chromosomal aberrations (TCA), aberrant cells (Ab.c.), sister chromatid exchanges (SCE), high-frequency cells (HFC), and high-frequency cell individual (HFI) were investigated in peripheral blood lymphocytes from 17 gasoline-exposed workers (10 smokers and 7 non-smokers) and 22 unexposed reference subjects (12 smokers and 10 non-smokers). The exposed subjects were gasoline truck loaders at a gasoline company from Tunis City, north of Tunisia. The results indicate multiple CA, such as dicentrics (DIC), chromatid breaks (SB), and chromosome breaks (DB). A significant difference was observed in TCA and Ab.c. frequencies between exposed and unexposed groups (p