Evaluation of the genotoxic and teratogenic potential of a municipal sludge and sludge-amended soil using the amphibian Xenopus laevis and the tobacco: Nicotiana tabacum L. var. xanthi Dulieu

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• 作者：Chenon ; Pascale ; Gauthier ; Laury ; Loubi&egrave ; res ; Pascale ; Sé ; verac ; Alain ; Delpoux ; Marcel
• 关键词：Genotoxicity ; Teratogenicity ; Sludge ; Sludge-amended soil ; Amphibian ; Xenopus ; Tobacco ; Micronucleus assay ; FETAX.
• 刊名：The Science of the Total Environment
• 出版年：2003
• 期刊代码：63_00489697
• 类别：env
• 出版时间：January 1, 2003
• 卷：301
• 期：1-3
• 页码：139-150
• 文件大小：125 K

摘要

The toxic, genotoxic and teratogenic potential of a municipal sewage sludge was assessed using the micronucleus assay on the larvae of the amphibian Xenopus laevis and with the tobacco somatic mutation test using the yellow–green xanthi Dulieu mutant a₁⁺/a₁ a₂⁺/a₂. The teratogenic potential was assessed by means of the Frog Embryo Teratogenesis Assay-Xenopus (FETAX). Various doses of the pasty sludge added to a crop soil were tested using the three bioassays. The test systems were performed either directly with sludge or sludge-amended soil samples (plant model) or with aqueous extracts (aquatic animal model). Using the tobacco model, we found no mutagenic impact of the soil amended with the sludge, perhaps because the clay-like nature of the soil, with its high adsorption capacity, may have prevented the contaminants from reaching the target. All leachates of amended soils produced a significant size reduction in Xenopus embryos. Depending on the soil/sludge ratio, some leachates were found to be genotoxic but were never teratogenic. This battery of in vivo test systems enabled us to estimate the global long-term effects under agricultural conditions with various genetic endpoints on ecologically relevant organisms characteristic of the aquatic and terrestrial compartments.