Journal article
delta-Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase genotype modifies four hour urinary lead excretion after oral administration of dimercaptosuccinic acid
Occupational and environmental medicine (London, England), v 54(4)
Apr 1997
PMID: 9166129
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Previous research suggests that binding of lead by delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALAD) may vary by ALAD genotype. This hypothesis was tested by examining whether ALAD genotype modifies urinary lead excretion (DMSA chelatable lead) after oral administration of dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA). METHODS: 57 South Korean lead battery manufacturing workers were given 5 mg/kg oral DMSA and urine was collected for four hours. Male workers were randomly selected from two ALAD genotype strata (ALAD1-1, ALAD1-2) from among all current workers in the two plants (n = 290). Subjects with ALAD1-1 (n = 38) were frequency matched with subjects with ALAD1-2 (n = 19) on duration of employment in the lead industry. Blood lead, zinc protoporphyrin, and plasma aminolevulinic acid concentrations, as well as ALAD genotype, duration of exposure, current tobacco use, and weight were examined as predictors or effect modifiers of levels of DMSA chelatable lead. RESULTS: Blood lead concentrations ranged from 11 to 53 micrograms/dl, with a mean (SD) of 25.4 (10.2) micrograms/dl. After 5 mg/kg DMSA orally, the workers excreted a mean (SD) 85.4 (45.0) micrograms lead during a four hour urine collection (range 16.5-184.1 micrograms). After controlling for blood lead concentrations, duration of exposure, current tobacco use, and body weight, subjects with ALAD1-2 excreted, on average, 24 micrograms less lead during the four hour urine collection than did subjects with ALAD1-1 (P = 0.05). ALAD genotype seemed to modify the relation between plasma delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and DMSA chelatable lead. Workers with ALAD1-2 excreted more lead, after being given DMSA, with increasing plasma ALA than did workers with ALAD1-1 (P value for interaction = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: DMSA chelatable lead may partly reflect the stores of bioavailable lead, and the current data indicate that subjects with ALAD1-2 have lower stores than those with ALAD1-1. These data provide further evidence that the ALAD genotype modifies the toxicokinetics of lead-for example, by differential binding of current lead stores or by differences in long-term retention and deposition of lead.
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- Title
- delta-Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase genotype modifies four hour urinary lead excretion after oral administration of dimercaptosuccinic acid
- Creators
- B S Schwartz - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAB K Lee - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAW Stewart - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAP Sithisarankul - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAP T Strickland - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAK D Ahn - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USAK Kelsey - Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Publication Details
- Occupational and environmental medicine (London, England), v 54(4)
- Publisher
- British Medical Journal (BMJ)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1997WR29300005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0030892932
- Other Identifier
- 991014878463404721
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