Zocche Jairo José, da Conceição Martins Miriam, Rohr Paula, Damiani Adriani Paganini, Teixeira Karina O, Borges Gabriela D, de Jesus Maiellen M, Vilela Thais Ceresér, de Andrade Vanessa Moraes
Laboratory of Ecology of Landscape and Vertebrates, Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, SC, Brazil.
Translational Biomedicine Laboratory, Graduate Programme of Health Sciences, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, SC, Brazil.
Arch Environ Occup Health. 2019;74(6):358-363. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2019.1586633. Epub 2019 Mar 21.
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the genotoxic effect of lettuce ( L.), beet ( L.), broccoli ( var. ), and kale ( var. ) grown in vegetable garden built on the deposits of coal tailings. For this, we used 72 healthy male Swiss albino mice that received juice from the vegetables in an acute or chronic treatment. Using comet assay, we determined that acute administration of the juices of all vegetables from the coal-mining area was genotoxic, and increased the DNA damage in the blood, liver, and cerebral cortex of mice. Therefore, the present data suggest that intake of vegetables cultivated over coal waste results in an increase in DNA damage in some organs; this situation may pose a risk to health.
