Environmental toxicology and chemistry
Publisher:
Pergamon Press,. Pensacola, FL : SETAC Press
Frequency: Monthly
Country: United States
Language: English
Author(s):
SETAC (Society)
Start Year:1982 -
ISSN:
0730-7268 (Print)
1552-8618 (Electronic)
0730-7268 (Linking)
1552-8618 (Electronic)
0730-7268 (Linking)
Impact Factor
4.1
2022
| NLM ID: | 8308958 |
| (DNLM): | E10730000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 08047857 |
| Coden: | ETOCDK |
| Classification: | W1 EN986KF |
Identification of interspecific differences in phase II reactions: determination of metabolites in the urine of 16 mammalian species exposed to environmental pyrene. Interspecific differences in xenobiotic metabolism are a key to determining relative sensitivities of animals to xenobiotics. However, information on domesticated livestock, companion animals, and captive and free-ranging wildlife is incomplete. The present study evaluated interspecific differences in phase II conjugation using pyrene as a nondestructive biomarker of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their metabolites have carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting effects in humans and wildlife and can have serious consequences. The authors collec...
Deer exposed to exceptionally high concentrations of lead near the Continental Mine in Idaho, USA. Habitat surrounding the inactive Continental Mine in northern Idaho, USA, supports bear (Ursus arctos, Ursus americanus), moose (Alces alces), elk (Cervus elaphus), woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), and abundant mule (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Tailings on the mining site were capped and remediated in 2003 to reduce environmental exposure of surrounding soil and sediments of Blue Joe Creek, downslope of the mine. Before capping, the mean Pb concentration in deer pellets collected on-site was 920 mg/kg of Pb (dry wt). This exposure, if chron...