The effects of busulphan on the chromosomes of normal human lymphocytes |
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Authors: | J R Honeycombe |
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Affiliation: | Department of Cytogenetics and Immunogenetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden Hospital, London, S.W.3 Great Britain |
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Abstract: | In vitro exposure of human lymphocytes to busulphan (BUS) produced an increase in chromosome aberrations and in sister-chromatid exchange (SCE) frequency. The distribution of chromosome breaks throughout the karyotype was non-random and they occurred mainly in the G-negative bands. Certain bands had a marked susceptibility to BUS and comparisons with the human chromosome-break distributions reported for a number of drugs revealed that some of these bands were equally susceptible to other alkylating agents. Both the number of chromosome gaps and breaks and the SCE frequency increased with BUS concentration, but only the SCE dose--response was a clearly defined linear relationship. Therefore a standard SCE dose--response curve was constructed for future comparison with the results of similar investigations of patients on BUS therapy. |
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Keywords: | BUdR bromodeoxyuridine BUS busulphan (1,4-dimethanesulphonyloxybutane) CML chronic myeloid leukaemia ECHH epichlorohydrin SCE sister-chromatid exchange |
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