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Environ Sci Pollut Res Int ; 28(12): 14632-14653, 2021 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33216302

ABSTRACT

Cartagena Bay is an estuarine system located in the Caribbean Sea (Colombia, South America), that receives fresh water from Canal del Dique, which is connected to the Magdalena River, the most important river of Colombia, with some of the most prominent Colombian cities located in its watershed, which has a high sediment yield. An analysis of persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals was carried out on marine sediments from Cartagena Bay. Cartagena Bay sediments deployed the occurrence of total levels of pesticides (thiocarbamates, bromacil, triazines, organochlorines, and organophosphorus), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in sediments ranging from 0.83-33.67 ng/g dry-weight, 0.05-0.34 ng/g dry-weight, and 0.06-19.58 ng/g dry-weight, respectively. Their concentrations were lower than those reported in NOAA Screening Quick Reference Tables. DDTs and PCBs are banned organochlorine compounds, since, even at low levels, their presence in sediments represents a threat to aquatic organisms and, therefore, to human health through the trophic chain. Sediments showed high concentrations of strontium (50-959.6 mg/kg). All metals evaluated in the marine sediments were found in the S6 sampling point; this was near tannery and hydrocarbon industries (Pb 37.1 mg/kg, Cr 137.2 mg/kg, Cd 1.7 mg/kg, Cu 64.4 mg/kg, As 13.1 mg/kg, Sr 318.9 mg/kg); these results exceeded the accepted values of threshold effect levels (TEL) used as an indicator of their potential risk on marine life.


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Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated , Pesticides , Polychlorinated Biphenyls , Water Pollutants, Chemical , Bays , Caribbean Region , Cities , Colombia , Environmental Monitoring , Geologic Sediments , Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/analysis , Humans , Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis , Pesticides/analysis , Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis , South America , Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
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PLoS One ; 15(4): e0231310, 2020.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32282847

ABSTRACT

Shrimps can be used as indicators of the quality of aquatic systems exposed to a variety of pollutants. Chlorpyrifos is one of the most common pesticides found in environmental samples. In order to evaluate the effects of chlorpyrifos, adult organisms of Litopenaeus vannamei were exposed to two sublethal concentrations of the pesticide (0.7 and 1.3 µg/L) for four days. The LC50 (96-hours) value was determined and Lipid oxidation levels (LPO) and the activities of catalase (CAT), glutathion peroxidase (GPx), glutathion-S-transferase (GST) were assessed on the muscle, hepatopancreas and gills from the exposed organisms. In addition, inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was determined in the brain. LC50 (96-hours) was 2.10 µg/L of chlorpyrifos. Catalase activity and LPO were elevated in the three tissues, whereas a decrease of AChE activities in the brain and an increase of GST activity in the hepatopancreas were observed.


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Chlorpyrifos/toxicity , Environmental Monitoring/methods , Penaeidae/drug effects , Pesticides/toxicity , Water Pollutants, Chemical/toxicity , Animals , Brain/drug effects , Brain/enzymology , Environmental Biomarkers , Gills/drug effects , Gills/enzymology , Hepatopancreas/drug effects , Hepatopancreas/enzymology , Lethal Dose 50 , Penaeidae/enzymology
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Environ Sci Pollut Res Int ; 22(22): 17475-85, 2015 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26160124

ABSTRACT

Nematode parasites of the Anisakides family are often found in people living in countries where fish is consumed raw or partially cooked. This research shows the histological changes in the liver and spleen of Mugil incilis, collected in Cartagena Bay. These changes are associated with pollution by organochlorine pesticides and their possible influence on the parasite. Organochlorine compounds were extracted using the headspace-solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) technique. Residual amounts in the muscle of M. incilis such as ß-HCH, γ-HCH, heptachlor, aldrin, endosulfan, 4,4'-DDE, and dieldrin, among others, were identified by gas chromatography connected to an electron capture detector, indicating that the fauna of Cartagena Bay are exposed to these pollutants. Histological analysis was carried out on liver and spleen samples of M. incilis which were fixed, processed, and embedded in paraffin. The presence of melano-macrophages, granulomes, and trematodes in the liver was the most important changes observed. Larval prevalence for the Anisakis spp. was determined to be 1.6%; for Pseudoterranova spp., 25.3%, and for Contracaecum spp., 57.8%. Other parasites such as acanthocephalans were also reported for a total of 15.3%. Nevertheless, no significant correlation between parasites and organochlorines was found. This study is the first to correlate the presence of organochlorine compounds and histological damage in the liver and spleen of M. incilis, with the presence of parasites in fish from Cartagena Bay (Colombia).


Subject(s)
Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis , Pesticides/analysis , Smegmamorpha , Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis , Animals , Atlantic Ocean , Colombia
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J Agric Food Chem ; 60(25): 6364-8, 2012 Jun 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22607373

ABSTRACT

The chemical composition of essential oils isolated from aerial parts of Triphasia trifolia (Burm. f.) P. Wilson was analyzed using hydrodistillation by GC-MS. The main constituents found were ß-pinene (64.36%), (+)-sabinene (8.75%), hexadecanoic acid (6.03%), α-limonene (4.24%) and p-cymene (2.73%). The essential oil from T. trifolia shows high antioxidant potential (94.53%), an effect that is comparable with ascorbic acid (96.40%), used as standard. In addition, these oils had high repellent effects on the insect Tribolium castaneum Herbst (99% ± 1) at 0.2 µL/cm(2) after 2 h of exposure.


Subject(s)
Antioxidants/pharmacology , Insect Repellents/pharmacology , Oils, Volatile/pharmacology , Plant Oils/pharmacology , Rutaceae/chemistry , Animals , Antioxidants/chemistry , Coleoptera/drug effects , Colombia , Insect Repellents/chemistry , Oils, Volatile/chemistry , Plant Oils/isolation & purification
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