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Adedara IA, Gonçalves FL, Mohammed KA, Borba JV, Canzian J, Resmim CM, Claro MT, Macedo GT, Mostardeiro VB, Assmann CE, Monteiro CS, Emanuelli T, Schetinger MRC, Barbosa NV, Rosemberg DB. Waterborne atenolol disrupts neurobehavioral and neurochemical responses in adult zebrafish. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024:10.1007/s11356-024-34428-x. [PMID: 39048857 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-34428-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 07/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
Abstract
Environmental contamination by pharmaceuticals from industrial waste and anthropogenic activities poses adverse health effects on non-target organisms. We evaluated the neurobehavioral and biochemical responses accompanying exposure to ecological relevant concentrations of atenolol (0, 0.1, 1.0, and 10 µg/L) for seven uninterrupted days in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). Atenolol-exposed fish exhibited anxiety-like behavior, characterized by significant bottom-dwelling with marked reduction in vertical exploration. Atenolol-exposed fish exhibited marked increase in the duration and frequency of aggressive events without altering their preference for conspecifics. Biochemical data using brain samples indicated that atenolol disrupted antioxidant enzyme activities and induced oxidative stress. Exposure to atenolol markedly decreased ATP and AMP hydrolysis without affecting ADP hydrolysis and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity. Atenolol significantly upregulated tryptophan hydroxylase 1 (tph1) mRNA expression but downregulated brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bdnf) mRNA. Collectively, waterborne atenolol elicits aggressive and anxiety-like responses in adult zebrafish, accompanied by oxidative stress, reduced nucleotide hydrolysis, altered tph1 and bdnf mRNA expression, which may impact the survival and health of fish in aquatic environment.
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Affiliation(s)
- Isaac A Adedara
- Department of Food Technology and Science, Center of Rural Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil.
- Drug Metabolism and Toxicology Research Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil.
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Department of Food Technology and Science, Center of Rural Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Department of Food Technology and Science, Center of Rural Sciences, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neuropsychobiology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Natural and Exact Sciences Center, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Toxicological Biochemistry, Federal University of Santa Maria, Camobi, 1000 Roraima Avenue, Santa Maria, RS, 97105-900, Brazil
- The International Zebrafish Neuroscience Research Consortium (ZNRC), 309 Palmer Court, Slidell, LA, 70458, USA
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Hoang ATP, Do MC, Kim KW. Environmental risk assessment of selected pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater in nothern Vietnam. CHEMOSPHERE 2024; 356:141973. [PMID: 38608777 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Pharmaceuticals are progressively employed in both human and veterinary medicine and increasingly recognized as environmental contaminants. This study investigated the occurrence of selected pharmaceuticals in influent and effluent of wastewater treatment plants of 12 hospitals in Hanoi and 3 northern cities of Vietnam during dry and rainy seasons. In addition, environmental risk of pharmaceuticals in both hospital influents and effluents were evaluated based on risk quotients (RQs). Nine selected pharmaceutical compounds including sulfamethoxazole (SMX), naproxen (NPX), diclofenac (DCF), ibuprofen (IBU), acetaminophen (ACT), carbamazepine (CBM), iopromide (IOP), atenolol (ATN), and caffeine (CAF) were frequently detected in most influent and effluent wastewaters of 12 investigated hospitals. Detected compound levels exhibited a wide range, from as low as 1 ng/L for DCF to as high as 61,772 ng/L for ACT. Among these compounds, ACT, CAF, SMX, and IOP were consistently detected at substantial concentrations in both influents and effluents. This investigation also highlighted potential risks posed by SMX, ACT, and CAF residues present in influents and effluents of hospital wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to aquatic ecosystem. These finding are expected to provide scientific-based evidence for the development of hospital waste management and environmental management programs in Vietnam.
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- Anh T P Hoang
- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 61005, Gwangju, South Korea
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- Health Environment Management Agency, Ministry of Health, 12014, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 61005, Gwangju, South Korea.
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Larrea Murrell JA, Alvarez BR, Petre A, Gómez AS, Moya DL, Rojas Badía MM, Boltes K. Presence of pharmaceutical contaminants of emerging concerns in two rivers of western Cuba and their relationship with the extracellular enzymatic activity of microbial communities. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 346:123589. [PMID: 38373626 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
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In recent years, the concern derived from the presence of emerging contaminants in the environment and the possible effects on the One Health trilogy has increased. This study determined the concentration of pharmaceutical contaminants of emerging concern and their relationship with the extracellular enzymatic activity of microbial communities from two rivers in western Cuba. Two sampling stations were analyzed; one in the Almendares River (urban) and the other in the San Juan River (rural), taking into account the pollution sources that arrive at these stations and previous physicochemical characterizations. Extracellular protease, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, lipase, and catalase activities in water and sediments were determined and correlated with contaminants of emerging concern determined by liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry. This study evidenced the presence of different pharmaceutical contaminants found in the categories of antihypertensives, stimulants, anti-inflammatories, and antibiotics in both rivers. Concentrations of contaminants of emerging concern were greater in the Almendares River compared to the San Juan River. In addition, through the canonical redundancy analysis, the influence of these contaminants on the extracellular enzymatic activities of microbial communities was documented, where in most cases they inhibit protease, phosphatase, and lipase activities and enhance catalase activity in response to oxidative stress. The present investigation constitutes the first report in Cuba of the presence of pharmaceutical contaminants of emerging concern and one of the few works that exist in the Latin American region.
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- Jeny Adina Larrea Murrell
- Department of Microbiology and Virology. Biology Faculty. University of Havana. #455 25 Street between J and I. Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology. Biology Faculty. University of Havana. #455 25 Street between J and I. Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
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- Universidad de Alcalá, Departamento de Química Analítica, Química Física e Ingeniería Química, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona Km. 33.600, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; IMDEA Water, Avda. Punto Com, 2, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology. Biology Faculty. University of Havana. #455 25 Street between J and I. Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology. Biology Faculty. University of Havana. #455 25 Street between J and I. Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology. Biology Faculty. University of Havana. #455 25 Street between J and I. Vedado, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
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- Universidad de Alcalá, Departamento de Química Analítica, Química Física e Ingeniería Química, Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona Km. 33.600, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; IMDEA Water, Avda. Punto Com, 2, 28805, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
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Suleiman M, Demaria F, Zimmardi C, Kolvenbach BA, Corvini PFX. Analyzing microbial communities and their biodegradation of multiple pharmaceuticals in membrane bioreactors. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2023:10.1007/s00253-023-12677-z. [PMID: 37436483 PMCID: PMC10390369 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-023-12677-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/24/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023]
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Pharmaceuticals are of concern to our planet and health as they can accumulate in the environment. The impact of these biologically active compounds on ecosystems is hard to predict, and information on their biodegradation is necessary to establish sound risk assessment. Microbial communities are promising candidates for the biodegradation of pharmaceuticals such as ibuprofen, but little is known yet about their degradation capacity of multiple micropollutants at higher concentrations (100 mg/L). In this work, microbial communities were cultivated in lab-scale membrane bioreactors (MBRs) exposed to increasing concentrations of a mixture of six micropollutants (ibuprofen, diclofenac, enalapril, caffeine, atenolol, paracetamol). Key players of biodegradation were identified using a combinatorial approach of 16S rRNA sequencing and analytics. Microbial community structure changed with increasing pharmaceutical intake (from 1 to 100 mg/L) and reached a steady-state during incubation for 7 weeks on 100 mg/L. HPLC analysis revealed a fluctuating but significant degradation (30-100%) of five pollutants (caffeine, paracetamol, ibuprofen, atenolol, enalapril) by an established and stable microbial community mainly composed of Achromobacter, Cupriavidus, Pseudomonas and Leucobacter. By using the microbial community from MBR1 as inoculum for further batch culture experiments on single micropollutants (400 mg/L substrate, respectively), different active microbial consortia were obtained for each single micropollutant. Microbial genera potentially responsible for degradation of the respective micropollutant were identified, i.e. Pseudomonas sp. and Sphingobacterium sp. for ibuprofen, caffeine and paracetamol, Sphingomonas sp. for atenolol and Klebsiella sp. for enalapril. Our study demonstrates the feasibility of cultivating stable microbial communities capable of degrading simultaneously a mixture of highly concentrated pharmaceuticals in lab-scale MBRs and the identification of microbial genera potentially responsible for the degradation of specific pollutants. KEY POINTS: • Multiple pharmaceuticals were removed by stable microbial communities. • Microbial key players of five main pharmaceuticals were identified.
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- Marcel Suleiman
- Institute of Ecopreneurship, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Ecopreneurship, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland
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- Institute of Ecopreneurship, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland
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- Institute of Ecopreneurship, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Muttenz, Switzerland
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Aghapour AA, Alizadeh N, Khorsandi H. Biological degradation and mineralization of tetracycline antibiotic using SBR equipped with a vertical axially rotating biological bed (SBR-VARB). Biodegradation 2023; 34:325-340. [PMID: 36840888 DOI: 10.1007/s10532-023-10018-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023]
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Tetracycline (TC) is a widely used antibiotic with a complex aromatic chemical structure and is highly resistant to biodegradation. In this study, an SBR equipped with a vertical axially rotating biological bed (SBR-VARB) was used for the biodegradation and mineralization of TC. SBR-VARB showed high efficiency in removing TC (97%), total phenolic compounds (TP) (95%), and COD (85%) under optimal operating conditions (TC = 50 mg/L, HRT = 1.75 d, and OLR = 36 g COD/m3 d). The SBR-VARB was able to treat higher concentrations of TC in shorter HRT than reported in previous studies. The contribution of VARB to improve SBR efficiency in removing TC, TP, and COD was 16, 36, and 48%, respectively. Intermediate compounds formed during the biodegradation of TC were identified using GC-MS under the optimal operating conditions of the bioreactor. These are mainly organic compounds with linear chemical structures. Based on the complete biodegradation of TC under the optimal operating conditions of the bioreactor, 93% and 36% of the chlorine and nitrogen atoms in the chemical structure of TC appeared in the wastewater, respectively. According to the sequence analysis of 16SrDNA, Pseudomonas sp., Kocuria Polaris, and Staphylococcus sp. were identified in the biofilm of VARB and the suspended biomass of the bioreactor. Therefore, SBR-VARB showed high efficiency in the biodegradation and mineralization of TC and can be used as a suitable option for treating wastewater containing antibiotics and other toxic compounds.
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- Ali Ahmad Aghapour
- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.
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- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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- Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran
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