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Occu;*tlcoal Health f* search A Training facility
Bureau of state Service*
lOlfc Broadway
Cincinnati 2, Ohio
July 87,
Oordcc J. Otopp*. M.B. X. X. duPont d* Bemoure 4 CO. Ea*kU Labor*tori** Smrt, CiUn
tear Dr. Btoppet
Tour lnqulrlee regarding hypereueceptlblllty and lead polecolng bar* bom referred to m by Or. Stokiager.
Is Prance and Italy, where aazty esplcyee* la the Induetry com fra* ethnic Croupe la vfclrh glucoee-6-pfcoephate dahydrogenaee deficiency of the erythro cyte 1* not uxowe, there bare been attempt# to determine If thl* Inborn error of netabollen va* factor la aggravating Mturalaa la thl* pptst of th* Industrial population.
It bad teea *hcwo by Jooderto In Poland that rabbit* and m ezpoeed to load exhibited a reduction la the glutathione content of the red call, finally, two report* *how that lead poleoclng doe*. Indeed, depretei 1. the glacoae* 6-phoephate dehydrogenate (0-6 PI) of erythrocyte*, together with 2. glutath loot (OCH), 3 the ability of red cell glutathione to be restored after lacvibatloe with acetyl-pbenylhydrazlne. (the CoS (tab111ty teat). and laetly. b. the ability of the rad cell entyne *yetena to reeoorert w**vencglchln Into hemoglobin. Apparently lead lap*Ire the development of the erythrocyte ao that. among other defect#, the eniyme *y*t*aa which Maintain normal aeafcrao* and beaoglcbln Integrity are deficient.
Objecting to lead erpoeure *ucb pereoo*. deficient In the normal canplemot of erythrocyte entyae*. would aggravate the defect aod lead to hemolytic effect* *ucb a* Iran,pi re vben pereon* with thee* Inborn error* of mtabollM are treated with a turner of cuacc drug* ae aeplrtn. acetanilide. *ulfae. etc.
evidence for lead-a*o lated effect* on red cell conetltuente 1* reported by Pub loo, a. f., Coed*. 0. C.. Pvrelll, 0.. and Parlgl, A.. The Behavior of glutathione, the glutaUilcce etabillty teet and jlucoee-6-pfccepivat# dehydrogenaee activity in lead poltoclng (Comportamento dal glutatlooe. del
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