摘要

Adducts of hemoglobin(Hb) and serum albumin(SA) with nicotine in mouse blood were measured respectively by using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). The dose response of adduct levels of Hb/SA and the correlative relationship between the two blood protein adducts were investigated over a range of doses (0.1-100.0 mug/kg body weight), which were equivalent to a low-level dose of environmental exposure of cigarette smoking. Both the levels of Hb and SA adducts increased with increasing dose and showed a linear relationship. By plotting Hb/SA adducts versus DNA adducts, a linear relationship fits the experimental observations best, which means that Hb/SA adduct could substitute for DNA adduct as a biomarker for nicotine. The detection limit of protein adduct in this work is 0.03 pmol/g protein(namely 3.2 adducts/10(12) amino acid residues), the excellent sensitivity in protein biomarker measurements compared to the data reported previously.