Biomonitoring with Micronuclei Test in Buccal Cells of Female Farmers and Children Exposed to Pesticides of Maneadero Agricultural Valley, Baja California, Mexico

Table 3

Frequencies of micronuclei and nuclear abnormalities in farmers from the Maneadero valley and children.

	Women ()			Children ()
	Farmers ()	Unexposed ()	value	Farmers; ()	Unexposed ()	value
Age	35.5 ± 12.4	27.7 ± 9.4	0.0047	7.8 ± 3.2	10.3 ± 3.4	0.0111
MNc	4.5 ± 5.5	0.7 ± 0.9	<0.0001	2.5 ± 2.5	0.1 ± 0.2	<0.0001
LN	2.5 ± 3.7	2.6 ± 2.5	0.3512	3.7 ± 5.3	0.7 ± 2.3	<0.0001
BN	3.1 ± 2.9	2.6 ± 2.1	0.7317	2.2 ± 2.0	2.3 ± 2.0	0.2833
KR	2.1 ± 4.4	1.0 ± 2.3	0.2480	3.0 ± 5.1	1.0 ± 1.2	0.9863
CC	2.0 ± 3.4	0.8 ± 1.7	0.0376	2.4 ± 4.2	0.1 ± 0.3	<0.0001
PN	0.3 ± 0.6	2.0 ± 2.3	<0.0001	0.3 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 1.8	0.0043
KL	6.4 ± 12.1	1.2 ± 1.6	0.0558	4.4 ± 6.4	4.3 ± 3.1	0.0617

MNc = micronucleated cells; LN = lobulated nucleus; BN = binucleated cells; PN = pyknotic cells; CC = condensed chromatin; KR = karyorrhexis; KL = karyolysis. Results are presented as mean ± SD from number of occurrences per 2000 counted cells. value was obtained with the Mann-Whitney test.