Biomarkers of PAHs exposure in crabs Ucides cordatus: laboratory assay and field study
| Autor: | Eleine Francioni, André Victor Sartori, Angela de Luca Rebello Wagener, Arthur de L. Scofield, Adriana Haddad Nudi, Carla B. Sette |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Geologic Sediments Brachyura Metabolite Glucuronates Biology Ecotoxicology Biochemistry Statistics Nonparametric Excretion chemistry.chemical_compound Bioassay Animals Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons General Environmental Science Micronucleus Tests Pyrenes biology.organism_classification chemistry Microscopy Fluorescence Environmental chemistry Micronucleus test Pyrene Hepatopancreas Avicennia Mangrove Micronucleus Biomarkers Brazil Water Pollutants Chemical |
| Zdroj: | Environmental research. 110(2) |
| ISSN: | 1096-0953 |
| Popis: | Pyrene metabolites in urine and micronucleus in haemocytes of crabs (Ucides cordatus) were tested as biomarkers of exposure to oil derived PAHs in mangrove sediments. The goal was to verify how well pyrene metabolites in urine represent levels of oil contamination in mangroves and whether the micronuclei assay indicates exposure. For this, bioassays were performed using crabs from clean and contaminated areas, and field studies were conducted in four mangroves. Results of the bioassay show that U. cordatus assimilates, metabolises, and excretes pyrene in urine as pyrene-1-glucoside, pyrene-sulphate and pyrene-conjugate. OH-pyrene-sulphate was the major metabolite produced/excreted over 120 h of observation by crabs from the clean mangrove. The production/excretion of pyrene-1-glucoside in this case increased linearly with time at a rate of 2.3 x 10(-10)mol L(-1)day(-1). The number of micronuclei in haemocytes also increased with the time after pyrene inoculation, indicating that exposure to pyrene triggers genotoxic and mutagenic response. In crabs from a heavily oil-contaminated mangrove pyrene-1-glucoside was the major metabolite, an indication that production/excretion of a certain metabolite varies depending on adaptation of the animal to the environment. A highly significant correlation was found between the concentration of pyrene metabolites in urine of field crabs expressed as OH-pyrene equivalents and the sum of 38 PAHs determined in hepatopancreas/sediments (r=0.825, n=23, p |
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