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Objective To investigate the body burden of lead and the related health effects in the residents living on the highway-sides of the mountain areas in Fujian province,China.Methods Eighty-nine subjects living nearby the highway-sides(exposed group) and 69 subjects far away from the highway(control group) were recruited by stratified random sampling method.Their basic situation and relevant index were investigated with questionnaire;The lead levels of blood and urine were determined by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometric method and compared;The temperature,pulse rate and blood pressure were taken to analyze the related health effects;and the influence factors of blood lead levels were analyzed by single factor analysis method,rank correlation analysis method and multiple regression analysis method.Results The blood and urine lead level of exposure group([94.19 26.51),(15.36?7.67)?g/L ]were significantly higher than that of the control group[(62.83?13.33),(7.24?4.62) ?g/L;t=8.981 0、7.766 2,P
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Objective To explore the effects of taurine-zinc(TZC) on blood lead content and blood-brain barrier(BBB) permeability of growing rats exposed to lead.Methods Male SD rats aged 3 weeks were randomly divided into four groups(8 in each group):control group,lead exposure group,dimercaptosuccinic acid(DMSA) group and TZC group.The exposure group treated with 0.12% lead acetate(0.2 ml/100 g body weight) by intraperitoneal injection,DMSA group and TZC group were treated with the same dose of lead acetate but were respectively supplemented with 5 mg/ml DMSA(2 ml/100 g body weight) by ig and 0.46 g/L TZC solution through drinking.Three weeks later,blood lead content was measured by atomic absorption spectroscopy(AAS) and changes of BBB permeability were observed using lanthanum nitrate tracer method.Results Compared with the lead exposure group,the blood lead level in TZC group and DMSA group was significantly reduced(P
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Objective To investigate the content of heavy metals in the seafood from sea areas of Guangdong province and assess the seafood safety. Methods The seafood samples were collected from seventeen representative sea areas and two seafood markets in Guangdong province from April to August 2007. The contents of Cu,Zn,Cr,Cd and Pb were measured by ICP-MS. Single factor contamination estimation in seafood was conducted and the sea food safety was assessed. Results The contents of five heavy metals in fish were below the standard limits for harmless fishery food,and the contents of heavy metals in shellfish were higher than those of fish. The contents of Cu and Zn in some oysters were higher than the evaluation standard of heavy metal pollution for the marine animals. The contents of Cd in chlamys farreri and oysters were higher than the standard limits of harmless fishery food. Except the higher content of Cr in babylonia areolata,the contents of Cr and Pb in shellfish were below the standard limits. Conclusion As for the levels of heavy metals,Cu,Zn,Cr,Cd and Pb,in the fish from the sea areas of Guangdong province is safe for health and but the levels of the five heavy metals exceeded the safety limits in varying degrees in some shellfish.
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In recent years,lead poisoning has gradually become an important public health issue.Usually,children are facing a chronic low-level environmental lead exposure.The damage of lead for children is a dose-effect continual process,involving in nerve,blood,digestive,urinary,immune,endocrine and many other systems,and can affect children's growth.The recent researches on children lead poisoning were reviewed and the biological markers of lead poisoning,detection method of lead in vivo,clinical diagnosis,interventions and models in vitro and in vivo in studies of lead poisoning were summarized.This article would offers scientific researchers effective and convenient scientific basis for further study of the lead toxicity.
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Objective To evaluate the mutagenicity of mercury, cadmium, arsenic, chromium(Ⅵ)and lead in water on Vicia faba root tip cells. Methods The micronucleus assay of Vicia faba root tip cells were conducted to determine micronucleus rate of Vicia faba root tip cells induced by mercury (0.000 5-1.0 mg/L), cadmium (0.005-1.0 mg/L), arsenic(0.05-2.0 mg/L), chromium (Ⅵ) (0.05-2.0 mg/L) and lead (0.05-3.0 mg/L ) ,and pollution indexes were calculated. Results When the concentration of mercury was ≥ 0.5 mg/L, cadmium ≥ 0.1 mg/L, arsenic ≥ 0.5 mg/L and chromium(Ⅵ)≥ 2.0 mg/L in the water, the micronucleus rate were significantly higher compared with the negative control group, respectively(P
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Zn. Conclusion Human activities developed along the Huaihe River does not influence the concentration of heavy metals in the sediment, no serious contamination of heavy metals in the sediment is found in the present investigation.
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Objective To study the effect of cadmium on the spatiotemporal sequence of Zic_2 expression in the development of the nervous system.Methods Wistar rats were used in the initial portion of the study.Male and female animals were housed together overnight;the presence of sperms by vaginal smearing methods the following morning indicated that copulation had occurred,and that day was designated embryonic day 0.5(E0.5).Forty dams were divided randomly into the control group and the cadmium exposure group.The dams in the cadmium exposure group were treated with cadmium at a dose of 4 mg/kg by intraperitoneal injection.The dams of control and cadmium exposure groups were divided 4 subgroups respectively,sacrificed at various times on embryonic days 9.0,9.5,10.5,and 11.5,laparotomized and the one half pregnant uterus were taken out.The embryos were taken out under stereomicroscope and the morphological score of the nervous system were calculated.The other pregnant uterus were fixed fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde routinely embedded in paraffin and coronally sliced into slice 5 ?m of thickness for immunohistochemical staining.Results Cadmium could lead to dysplasia of nervous system in embryos of rats.The main manifestations were growth retardation,delay closure or unclosures pre- and post- neuropores,and so on.Developmental scores of the forebrain,midbrain and hindbrain of rat embryos in the cadmium exposure groups were lower than the corresponding control groups,and in cadmium exposure groups had significant difference compared with those in control group(P0.05).According to developmental overall scores of nervous system,the scores of the cadmium exposure groups were lower than that of the control groups with significant difference on E9.5,E10.0,E10.5 and E11.5(t=2.71,4.72,3.78,and 5.61 respectively,all P
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Objective To research the toxicokinetics model of lead acetate in the domestic rabbits.Methods Injecting lead acetate into the vein of the domestic rabbit at the dose of 3 mg/kg,then the blood was collected at the 10th,20th,30th,60th,90th,120th,180th,240th and 360th min.The concentrations of the blood lead were measured by differential potentiometric stripping analysis,the data were analyzed by DAS2.0 software.Results The linear was at the range of 10 to 50 ?g/ml,the major toxicokinetics parameters were:t1/2? = 8.60 min,t1/2? = 67.69 min,t1/2? = 729.84 min,V1= 77 033.08 L/kg,CL = 709.27 L/(min?kg),AUC(0-t) = 3 106.59 ng/(L?min).According to the smallest principle of AIC,the lead concentration in vivo conformed to the three compartmental models in domestic rabbit after injecting lead acetate at 3 mg/kg.Conclusion The lead concentration conforms to the three compartmental models in the domestic rabbit after intravascular injection of lead acetate,and it is eliminated according to the first order processes.
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Objective To study the ecotoxicological effect of Mn,Cd and Mn-Cd combined contamination on crops.Methods Chinese cabbage(Brassica pekimensis),lettuce(Lactuca sativa var.angustana Irish),cowpea(Vigna unguiculata) and alfalfa(Medicago sativa L.) seeds were used in seed germination and root elongation tests.Results Research findings indicated that inhibition rates of heavy metals(individual or combined) on the seed germination were much lower than those on the root elongation.Inhibition rate of root elongation proved positively correlated to the concentration of Mn and Cd(P
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Objective To study the antagonism of glutathione(GSH) to antioxidative capacity decrease induced by manganese exposure in rats.Methods 48 healthy male SD rats were randomly divided into six groups: the blank control,GSH control,MnCl2.4H2O(15 mg/kgand 30 mg/kg),15 mg/kgMnCl2.4H2O+1 mmol/kgGSH and 30 mg/kg MnCl2.4H2O+1 mmol/kg GSH,the treatment was conducted through peritoneal injection.The activity of superoxide dismutase(SOD),catalase(CAT) and glutathione peroxidase(GSH-Px)in the serumand the testis were determined bycolorimetric analysis.Results Compared with the blank control group,the activity of SOD,CAT and GSH-Px in the serum and testis in 30 mg/kg groups significantly decreased(P
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Objective To develop a method to determine lead in the whole blood with graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry.Methods The whole blood was diluted with mixing matix modifiers [5.0 g/L NH4H2PO4+1.0 g/L Tritonx-100+2.0 ml/L HNO3],then the samples were automatically injected and the blood lead level was determined with Zeeman graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometer.Results There was significant linear relation between absorbance and lead level in the range of 0-40 ?g/L(r=0.998 2),the relative standard deviation(RSD)was 5.5%-12.2%,the recovery rate was 90%-106%,detection limit was 1.1 ?g/L.Conclusion This method is characterized by reliable result,convenient procedure as well as lower pollution.The test result of whole blood lead level in more than 600 occupational lead exposed people with this method is satisfactory.
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As the intake routes and hazards to human health of heavy metals were well recognized,therefore the intake amount of heavy metals through foodchain has been effectively controlled and cut down. In many cases,oral ingested soil has become an important source of heavy metals in human. The traditional approach for estimating the bioavailability of heavy metals in oral ingested soil was animal (in vivo)test. Compared with animal test,in vitro test possesses several advantages including satisfactory replicability,time and cost effectiveness. Also,the results of in vitro tests showed well correlation to those of in vitro tests. The progress of development,current status and the methodology of in vitro tests in evaluating bioavailability of heavy metals in contaminated soil via oral intake were reviewed in this article. In vitro test could be used not only to estimate the bioavailability of heavy metals in soil in order to provide information for establishment of soil quality or clean-up criteria with regard to human health,but also to evaluate the effectiveness of soil remediation technologies. The in vitro test has been employed in many developed countries due to its above mentioned advantages. The use of in vitro test for screening of contaminated soil and evaluating the effectiveness of remediation technology is believed to be promising.
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Objective To know the accumulation and movement of heavy metals in the environment through sewage sluge using in agriculture. Methods The sewage sludge samples were collected from sewage treatment farms of Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou in the different seasons of 1998. The content and states of heavy metals were determined by AAS. The accumulation and movement of heavy metals were analyzed as sewage sludge was used in agriculture. Results The content of heavy metals in the sewage sludge was greatly higher than that in the soil background. Especially, the contents of zinc in the sewage sludge in three cities exceeded the related standard, the means were 1 199.00, 784.00 and 1 216.00 mg/kg respectively. A long term using of sewage sludge might induce heavy metal accumulation in the soil. Conclusion Sewage sludge used in agriculture may induce heavy metal accumulation in the soil and the organisms, so the risk of environmental heavy metals accumulation may increase.
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SOD.Conclusion Mn,Cd and Mn-Cd combined exposure has a significant inhabitation on cowpea growth with Cd alone being heaviest and Mn lowest.The physiological indicators show that when combined pollution occurs,an antagonistic effect between Mn and Cd is exhibited.
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Objective To explore the characteristics and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals pollution in the fluvial sediment in Hengyang section of Xiang river.Methods The fluvial sediments in 18 sites in 10 sections of Hengyang section of Xiang river were collected for determination of heavy metals(Cu,Zn,As,Hg,Cd,Cr,Pb) in 2007.The accumulation levels of heavy metals in the fluvial sediment and their potential ecological risks were assessed by the Hankanson potential ecological risk(PER) factors method.Results The average potential ecological risk index of Cd in sediment of Xiang river was 352.1 with the highest ecological risk,the index of Hg was 272.1 with higher ecological risk,the index of Pb and As was 150.1 and 104.7 with high ecological risk,the index of Cr,Zn and Cu were all lower than 40 with low ecological risk.On the whole,the integrated pollution index of seven kinds of heavy metal was 913.4.Conclusion The fluvial sediment of Hengyang section of Xiang rive has been polluted by heavy metals in a certain degree and is characterized as a complex pollution situation with a higher ecological risk.
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Objective To evaluate Chinese children’s blood lead levels(BLLs) and identify the distribution features with time and to provide the data for developing the policy to control environmental lead pollution.Methods The papers on children BLLs published from 2004 to Aug.2007 with sampling time since 2001 were collected,by searching Chinese Biomedical Disk(CBMDisk),Chinese Journal Full-test Database(CJFD) and other ways.Thirty-five articles eligible for inclusion criteria were reviewed.Also,the data were compared with our former study carried out in 2004 with articles studying time between 1995 and 2003.Results The mean BLL of Chinese children between 2001 and 2007 was 80.7 ?g/L(45.5-165.3 ?g/L),and 23.9%(3.2%-80.7%)were higher than 100 ?g/L,both of which were lower than the levels in 1995 to 2003.Four of 24 provinces or cities reported had average BLLs≥100 ?g/L.Of the 24 provinces or cities,only four had higher BLL and prevalence rates of lead poisoning(BLL ≥100 ?g/L) than that in 1995 to 2003.The mean BLL of children living in industrial areas was higher than that of children in urban and suburbs areas,and the mean BLL in suburbs was higher compared with urban areas.Boys BLL was 79.3 ?g/L,significantly higher than girls(76.9 ?g/L)(P
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Objective To investigate the effect of HgCl2 and drugs on the expression of calcitonin gene related peptide(CGRP) in the spinal cord and dorsal root ganglion(DRG).Methods Forty male SD rats(180-220 g) were randomly divided into 7 groups,5 in each treated group,10 in the control.Group A(high HgCl2),B(high HgCl2 +DMPS),C(high HgCl2+DMPS+ carbamzepine) were administrated with HgCl2 at the dose of 17 mg/kg(1/4 LD50),group D(low HgCl2),E(low HgCl2+DMPS),F(low HgCl2+NS) at the dose of 8.5 mg/kg(1/8 LD50),by gavage,once a day,the control group treated with normal saline(NS) in the same way.The sub-acute mercury poisoning models were developed within 18-22 days.Then five rats of control group and group A and D were killed and group B and E were treated with the chelator(DMPS) by intraperitoneal injection at the dose of 28 mg/kg for 2 periods.Group C was given DMPS+ carbamzepine and group F was given NS only.The carbamzepine was used at the dose of 16.82 mg/kg by gavage daily for 14 days.The spinal cord(L5-6) and the DRG of L5 and L6 were collected after the treatment finished.The immunohistochemistry SABC way was used to detect CGRP.Results The CGRP level in spinal cord and DRG of the rats exposed to HgCl2 increased significantly compared with the control group(P
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Objective To analyze and evaluate the relationship between occupational lead exposure and spontaneous abortion.Methods The papers on the relationship of occupational exposure to lead and spontaneous abortion of female workers published in Chinese in 1991-2007 were searched by using computer and manual search,after strict selection,the homogeneity test and integrated analysis for the abstracted data of the eligible studies were conducted by using Rev.Man Statistic Software.The combined RR value was used as the total effect target of each project of meta-analysis.Results In total,14 original researches were included(totally 4 330 subjects and 11 970 controls),compared with the control,the occupational exposure to lead was significantly associated with spontaneous abortion(RR=2.83,95% CI:1.97-4.07)(P
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Cr. The potential ecological risk index of the whole regions had reached the middle level,and that of Hg had already reached the degree of strong hazard. Conclusion The long-term sewage irrigation has caused serious heavy metals pollution in the soil of irrigation regions.
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Objective To know the blood level and the influencing factors for the children living in the area near highway in the mountain region. Methods From December,2006 to April,2007,one hundred and eighteen children aged 8-12 years (exposed group) living in the area near highway in the mountain region and fifty-one children aged 8-12 years (control group) living in the area far away from the highway were selected by random cluster sampling. Lead level of the soil and crops on the highway-sides (pollution area)and the area far away from the highway (control area) was determined. The basic situation was investigated by the questionnaire, the blood lead level was determined by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. The influence of lead on children's intelligence, physical growth and the influencing factors for blood lead level were analyzed. Results The average lead level of the soil [(96.89?15.05) mg/kg] and crops [(0.86?0.29) mg/kg] in the polluted area was significantly higher compared with the control [soil lead: (29.83?1.41)mg/kg,crops lead:(0.17?0.03) mg/kg], and revealed statistical significance respectively (P