Relationship between persistent halogenated organic contaminants and TCDD-toxic equivalents on EROD activity and retinoid and thyroid hormone status in northern fulmars

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• 作者：Lisa B. Helgason ; Jonathan Verreault ; Birgit M. Braune ; Katrine Borgå ; Raul Primicerio ; Bj&#xf8 ; rn M. Jenssen ; Geir W. Gabrielsen
• 关键词：Arctic ; Northern fulmar ; Seabirds ; Ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) ; Thyroid hormones ; Retinoids
• 刊名：Science of the Total Environment
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：15 November 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：408
• 期：24
• 页码：6117-6123
• 全文大小：346 K

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We investigated whether the hepatic cytochrome P450 1A activity (measured as 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD)) and plasma thyroid hormone and liver retinoid concentrations were explained by liver and blood levels of halogenated organic contaminants (HOCs) in free-ranging breeding northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) from Bjørnøya in the Norwegian Arctic. Hepatic EROD activity and liver levels of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin toxic equivalents (TEQs) were positively correlated, suggesting that hepatic EROD activity is a good indicator for dioxin and dioxin-like HOC exposure in breeding northern fulmars. There were not found other strong relationships between HOC concentrations and hepatic EROD activity, plasma thyroid or liver retinoid concentrations in the breeding northern fulmars. It is suggested that the HOC levels found in the breeding northern fulmars sampled on Bjørnøya were too low to affect plasma concentrations of thyroid hormones and liver levels of retinol and retinyl palmitate, and that hepatic EROD activity is a poor indicator of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and pesticide exposure.