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Simbanegavi TT, Makuvara Z, Marumure J, Alufasi R, Karidzagundi R, Chaukura N, Musvuugwa T, Okiobe ST, Rzymski P, Gwenzi W. Are earthworms the victim, facilitator or antidote of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance at the soil-animal-human interface? A One-Health perspective. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 945:173882. [PMID: 38866146 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173882] [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: 03/23/2024] [Revised: 06/04/2024] [Accepted: 06/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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The transfer of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance (AR) to the soil systems poses ecological hazards to various organisms, including earthworms. Understanding the complex interactions between earthworms, antibiotics, and AR in the soil system requires a comprehensive assessment. Hence, the present review investigates the behaviour, fate, impacts, and mechanisms involved in the interaction of earthworms with antibiotics and AR. The antibiotics and AR detected in earthworms and their associated media, such as vermicompost, are presented, but several other antibiotics and AR widely detected in soils remain understudied. As receptors and bioassay organisms, earthworms are adversely affected by antibiotics and AR causing (1) acute and chronic toxicity, and (2) emergence of AR in previously susceptible earthworm gut microbiota, respectively. The paper also highlights that, apart from this toxicity, earthworms can also mitigate against antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic-resistance genes by reducing bacterial diversity and abundance. The behaviour and fate processes, including biodegradation pathways, biomarkers of antibiotics and AR in earthworms, are discussed. In addition, the factors controlling the behaviour and fate of antibiotics and AR and their interactions with earthworms are discussed. Overall, earthworms mitigate antibiotics and AR via various proximal and distal mechanisms, while dual but contradictory functions (i.e., mitigatory and facilitatory) were reported for AR. We recommend that future research based on the One-World-One-Health approach should address the following gaps: (1) under-studied antibiotics and AR, (2) degradation mechanisms and pathways of antibiotics, (3) effects of environmentally relevant mixtures of antibiotics, (4) bio-augmentation in earthworm-based bioremediation of antibiotics, (5) long-term fate of antibiotics and their metabolites, (6) bio-transfers of antibiotics and AR by earthworms, (7) development of earthworm biomarkers for antibiotics and AR, (8) application of earthworm-based bioremediation of antibiotics and AR, (9) cascading ecological impacts of antibiotics and AR on earthworms, and (10) pilot-scale field applications of earthworm-based bioremediation systems.
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- Tinoziva T Simbanegavi
- Department of Soil Science and Environment, Faculty of Agriculture, Environment, and Food Systems, University of Zimbabwe, P. O. Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
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- Department of Physics, Geography and Environmental Science, School of Natural Sciences, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe; Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa
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- Department of Physics, Geography and Environmental Science, School of Natural Sciences, Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe; Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa
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- Biological Sciences Department, Bindura University of Science Education, 741 Chimurenga Road, Off Trojan Road, P. Bag 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe
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- Materials Development Unit, Zimbabwe Open University, P.O. Box MP1119, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
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- Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley 8301, South Africa
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- Department of Physical and Earth Sciences, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley 8301, South Africa
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- Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
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- Formerly Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Guest Professor, Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie e.V. (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany; Formerly Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Guest Professor, Grassland Grassland Science and Renewable Plant Resources, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Universität Kassel, Steinstraße 19, D-37213 Witzenhausen, Germany; Biosystems and Environmental Engineering Research Group, 380 New Adylin, Marlborough, Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Fučík J, Jarošová R, Baumeister A, Rexroth S, Navrkalová J, Sedlář M, Gargošová HZ, Mravcová L. Assessing earthworm exposure to a multi-pharmaceutical mixture in soil: unveiling insights through LC-MS and MALDI-MS analyses, and impact of biochar on pharmaceutical bioavailability. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:48351-48368. [PMID: 39028457 PMCID: PMC11297825 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-34389-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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In the European circular economy, agricultural practices introduce pharmaceutical (PhAC) residues into the terrestrial environment, posing a potential risk to earthworms. This study aimed to assess earthworm bioaccumulation factors (BAFs), the ecotoxicological effects of PhACs, the impact of biochar on PhAC bioavailability to earthworms, and their persistence in soil and investigate earthworm uptake mechanisms along with the spatial distribution of PhACs. Therefore, earthworms were exposed to contaminated soil for 21 days. The results revealed that BAFs ranged from 0.0216 to 0.329, with no significant ecotoxicological effects on earthworm weight or mortality (p > 0.05). Biochar significantly influenced the uptake of 14 PhACs on the first day (p < 0.05), with diminishing effects over time, and affected significantly the soil-degradation kinetics of 16 PhACs. Moreover, MALDI-MS analysis revealed that PhAC uptake occurs through both the dermal and oral pathways, as pharmaceuticals were distributed throughout the entire earthworm tissue without specific localization. In conclusion, this study suggests ineffective PhAC accumulation in earthworms, highlights the influence of biochar on PhAC degradation rates in soil, and suggests that uptake can occur through both earthworm skin and oral ingestion.
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- Jan Fučík
- Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Veterinary Research Institute Brno, Hudcova 296/70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Shimadzu Europa GmbH, Albert-Hahn-Straße 6, 472 69, Duisburg, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- CEITEC Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 656/123, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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Pino-Otín MR, Valenzuela A, Gan C, Lorca G, Ferrando N, Langa E, Ballestero D. Ecotoxicity of five veterinary antibiotics on indicator organisms and water and soil communities. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2024; 274:116185. [PMID: 38489906 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
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This study explores the environmental effects of five common veterinary antibiotics widely detected in the environment, (chlortetracycline,CTC; oxytetracycline,OTC; florfenicol,FF; neomycin, NMC; and sulfadiazine, SDZ) on four bioindicators: Daphnia magna, Vibrio fischeri, Eisenia fetida, and Allium cepa, representing aquatic and soil environments. Additionally, microbial communities characterized through 16 S rRNA gene sequencing from a river and natural soil were exposed to the antibiotics to assess changes in population growth and metabolic profiles using Biolog EcoPlates™. Tetracyclines are harmful to Vibrio fisheri (LC50 ranges of 15-25 µg/mL), and the other three antibiotics seem to only affect D. magna, especially, SDZ. None of the antibiotics produced mortality in E. fetida at concentrations below 1000 mg/kg. NMC and CTC had the highest phytotoxicities in A. cepa (LC50 = 97-174 µg/mL, respectively). Antibiotics significantly reduced bacterial metabolism at 0.1-10 µg/mL. From the highest to the lowest toxicity on aquatic communities: OTC > FF > SDZ ≈ CTC > NMC and on edaphic communities: CTC ≈ OTC > FF > SDZ > NMC. In river communities, OTC and FF caused substantial decreases in bacterial metabolism at low concentrations (0.1 µg/mL), impacting carbohydrates, amino acids (OTC), and polymers (FF). At 10 µg/mL and above, OTC, CTC, and FF significantly decreased metabolizing all tested metabolites. In soil communities, a more pronounced decrease in metabolizing ability, detectable at 0.1 µg/mL, particularly affected amines/amides and carboxylic and ketonic acids (p < 0.05). These new ecotoxicity findings underscore that the concentrations of these antibiotics in the environment can significantly impact both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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Zhao F, Yang L, Yen H, Yu X, Fang L, Li M, Chen L. Can agricultural land use alter the responses of soil biota to antibiotic contamination? JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2022; 437:129350. [PMID: 35749896 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2022] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Antibiotics accumulate in soils via various agricultural activities, endangering soil biota that play fundamental roles in maintaining agroecosystem function. However, the effects of land-use heterogeneity on soil biota tolerance to antibiotic stresses are not well understood. In this study, we explored the relationships between antibiotic residues, bacterial communities, and earthworm populations in areas with different land-use types (forest, maize, and peanut fields). The results showed that antibiotic levels were generally higher in maize and peanut fields than in forests. Furthermore, land use modulated the effects of antibiotics on soil bacterial communities and earthworm populations. Cumulative antibiotic concentrations in peanut fields were negatively correlated with bacterial diversity and earthworm abundance, whereas no significant correlations were detected in maize fields. In contrast, antibiotics improved bacterial diversity and richness in forest soils. Generally, earthworm populations showed stronger tolerance to antibiotics than did soil bacterial communities. Agricultural land use differentially modified the responses of the soil bacterial community and earthworm population to antibiotic contamination, and earthworms might provide an alternative for controlling antibiotic contamination.
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- Fangkai Zhao
- School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn 36849, USA; Environmental Exposure Modeling, Bayer US Crop Science Division, Chesterfield 63017, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Health Risk Factors for Seafood of Zhejiang Province, Zhoushan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhoushan, 316021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Health Risk Factors for Seafood of Zhejiang Province, Zhoushan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhoushan, 316021, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Shi Q, Xiong Y, Kaur P, Sy ND, Gan J. Contaminants of emerging concerns in recycled water: Fate and risks in agroecosystems. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 814:152527. [PMID: 34953850 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Recycled water (RW) has been increasingly recognized as a valuable source of water for alleviating the global water crisis. When RW is used for agricultural irrigation, many contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are introduced into the agroecosystem. The ubiquity of CECs in field soil, combined with the toxic, carcinogenic, or endocrine-disrupting nature of some CECs, raises significant concerns over their potential risks to the environment and human health. Understanding such risks and delineating the fate processes of CECs in the water-soil-plant continuum contributes to the safe reuse of RW in agriculture. This review summarizes recent findings and provides an overview of CECs in the water-soil-plant continuum, including their occurrence in RW and irrigated soil, fate processes in agricultural soil, offsite transport including runoff and leaching, and plant uptake, metabolism, and accumulation. The potential ecological and human health risks of CECs are also discussed. Studies to date have shown limited accumulation of CECs in irrigated soils and plants, which may be attributed to multiple attenuation processes in the rhizosphere and plant, suggesting minimal health risks from RW-fed food crops. However, our collective understanding of CECs is rather limited and knowledge of their offsite movement and plant accumulation is particularly scarce for field conditions. Given a large number of CECs and their occurrence at trace levels, it is urgent to develop strategies to prioritize CECs so that future research efforts are focused on CECs with elevated risks for offsite contamination or plant accumulation. Irrigating specific crops such as feed crops and fruit trees may be a viable option to further minimize potential plant accumulation under field conditions. To promote the beneficial reuse of RW in agriculture, it is essential to understand the human health and ecological risks imposed by CEC mixtures and metabolites.
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- Qingyang Shi
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Zhao F, Yang L, Li G, Fang L, Yu X, Tang YT, Li M, Chen L. Veterinary antibiotics can reduce crop yields by modifying soil bacterial community and earthworm population in agro-ecosystems. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 808:152056. [PMID: 34861298 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Veterinary antibiotics are intensively and widely used in animal farming to treat or prevent diseases, as well as improve growth rate and feed efficiency. Animal manure is an important reservoir of veterinary antibiotics due to their high excretion rates, and thus manure application has been a critical source of veterinary antibiotics in agro-ecosystems. However, how veterinary antibiotics affect agroecosystem functions is still unclearly understood. In this study, we evaluated the effects of veterinary antibiotics on soil bacteria and earthworms in agricultural land with long-term manure application. The potential mechanisms of antibiotic-induced changes in crop yields were also revealed. The results showed that the increasing prevalence of veterinary antibiotics in agro-ecosystems inhibited earthworm abundance and bacterial diversity, and then decreased the bioavailability of soil nutrients. Furthermore, high-dose exposure to veterinary antibiotics improved the abundance of plant pathogenic bacteria. Analysis indicated that veterinary antibiotics played an important underlying role in driving the negative effects on peanut grain yields via disturbing microbe- and earthworm-mediated soil available nutrient contents. The direct toxicity effects of antibiotics on peanut relative yields were stronger than their indirect mediating effects. Additionally, the tradeoffs between antibiotics and agroecosystem functions increased at low exposure levels and then decreased at high exposure levels, which indicated the effects of antibiotics on agroecosystem functions were dose-dependent, except for earthworm biomass. Antibiotic contamination which will impose threats to agricultural sustainability was highlighted and should be paid more attention.
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- Fangkai Zhao
- School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Health Risk Factors for Seafood of Zhejiang Province, Zhoushan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhoushan 316021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Health Risk Factors for Seafood of Zhejiang Province, Zhoushan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhoushan 316021, China
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- School of Geographical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo 315100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Wang L, Han X, Liang T, Yan X, Yang X, Pei Z, Tian S, Wang S, Lima EC, Rinklebe J. Cosorption of Zn(II) and chlortetracycline onto montmorillonite: pH effects and molecular investigations. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2022; 424:127368. [PMID: 34879563 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Ionic antibiotics and metals generally coexist, and their interaction can affect their sorption behaviors onto soil minerals, therefore determining their environmental hazards. This study investigated the sorption and cosorption of Zn(II) and chlortetracycline (CTC) onto montmorillonite at different solution pH (3-10) using batch experiments and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis. The Langmuir model could reproduce well the sorption isotherms of Zn(II) and CTC. The presence of CTC/Zn(II) could promote the maximum sorption capacity (Qm) of Zn(II)/CTC, based on site energy distribution (SED) theory. Generally, Zn(II) sorption increased with pH increasing. Comparatively, CTC sorption decreased as pH increased till approximately pH 5.0, then increased continuously with pH increasing. Both CTC and Zn(II) co-existence enhanced their individual sorption in both acidic and neutral environments. The processes behind CTC and Zn(II) sorption mainly included cation exchange and surface complexation. The EXAFS data evidenced that the presence of CTC could alter the species of Zn(II) on montmorillonite via surface complexation at pH 4.5 and 7.5, with Zn-CTC complexes being the predominant species on montmorillonite at pH 7.5. At pH 9.5, Zn(II) may exist onto montmorillonite in precipitated form similar to Zn-Al hydrotalcite-like compound (HTlc) regardless of CTC presence.
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- Lingqing Wang
- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China
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- Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- University of Wuppertal, School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Institute of Foundation Engineering, Water- and Waste-Management, Soil- and Groundwater-Management, Pauluskirchstraße 7, 42285 Wuppertal, Germany; Department of Environment, Department of Environment and Energy, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
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Prakash V, Jain V, Chauhan SS, Parthasarathi R, Roy SK, Anbumani S. Developmental toxicity assessment of 4-MBC in Danio rerio embryo-larval stages. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 804:149920. [PMID: 34509837 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Revised: 08/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Enormous production of cosmetic products and its indiscriminate use tends to discharge into the aquatic environment and might threaten non-target organisms inhabiting aquatic ecosystems. In the present study, developmental toxicity of 4-methylbenzylidene camphor (4-MBC), a widely used organic UV filter in personal care products has been evaluated using zebrafish embryo-larval stages. Waterborne exposure induced developmental toxicity and deduced 2.71 mg/L as 96 h LC50 whereas embryos exposed to sub-lethal concentrations (50 and 500 μg/L) caused a significant delay in hatching rate, heart rate, reduced larval length, and restricted hatchlings motility besides the axial curvature. Chronic exposure to 10 dpf resulted in significant decrease in SOD activity at 500 μg/L with no changes in CAT level besides a significant increase in GST enzyme at 5 μg/L concentration in 5 dpf sampled larvae. However, all the three enzymes were significantly elevated in 10 dpf larvae indicating differential oxidative stress during the stages of development. Similar trend is noticed for acetylcholine esterase enzyme activity. A concentration dependent increase in malondialdehyde content was noted in larvae sampled at 5 and 10 dpf. In addition, multixenobiotic resistance (MXR) activity inhibition, and elevated oxidative tissue damage were noticed at 5 dpf with no significant changes in 10 dpf larvae. Furthermore, immunoblot analysis confirms 4-MBC induced apoptosis in zebrafish larvae with promoted cleaved Caspase-3, Bax and inhibited Bcl-2 proteins expression. Subsequently, docking studies revealed the binding potential of 4-MBC to zebrafish Abcb4 and CYP450 8A1 proteins with the binding energy of -8.1 and -8.5 kcal/mol representing target proteins interaction and toxicity potentiation. Our results showed that 4-MBC exposure triggers oxidative stress at sub-lethal concentrations leading to apoptosis, deformities and locomotion perturbations in developing zebrafish.This is first of its kind in systematically demonstrating developmental toxicity of 4-MBC and the information shall be used for aquatic toxicity risk assessment.
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- Ved Prakash
- Ecotoxicology Laboratory, Regulatory Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, "Vishvigyan Bhawan", 31, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, P.O. Box No.80, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Regulatory Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, "Vishvigyan Bhawan", 31, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, P.O. Box No.80, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Computational Toxicology Facility, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, "Vishvigyan Bhawan", 31, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, P.O. Box No.80, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Computational Toxicology Facility, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, "Vishvigyan Bhawan", 31, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, P.O. Box No.80, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Regulatory Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, "Vishvigyan Bhawan", 31, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, P.O. Box No.80, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Ecotoxicology Laboratory, Regulatory Toxicology Group, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, "Vishvigyan Bhawan", 31, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, P.O. Box No.80, Lucknow 226001, Uttar Pradesh, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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Lin Z, Zhen Z, Luo S, Ren L, Chen Y, Wu W, Zhang W, Liang YQ, Song Z, Li Y, Zhang D. Effects of two ecological earthworm species on tetracycline degradation performance, pathway and bacterial community structure in laterite soil. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2021; 412:125212. [PMID: 33524732 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.125212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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This study explored the change of tetracycline degradation efficiency, metabolic pathway, soil physiochemical properties and degraders in vermiremediation by two earthworm species of epigeic Eisenia fetida and endogeic Amynthas robustus. We found a significant acceleration of tetracycline degradation in both earthworm treatments, and 4-epitetracycline dehydration pathway was remarkably enhanced only by vermiremediation. Tetracycline degraders from soils, earthworm intestines and casts were different. Ralstonia and Sphingomonas were potential tetracycline degraders in soils and metabolized tetracycline through direct dehydration pathway. Degraders in earthworm casts (Comamonas, Acinetobacter and Stenotrophomonas) and intestines (Pseudomonas and Arthrobacter) dehydrated 4-epitetracycline into 4-epianhydrotetracycline. More bacterial lineages resisting tetracycline were found in earthworm treatments, indicating the adaptation of soil and intestinal flora under tetracycline pressure. Earthworm amendment primarily enhanced tetracycline degradation by neutralizing soil pH and consuming organic matters, stimulating both direct dehydration and epimerization-dehydration pathways. Our findings proved that vermicomposting with earthworms is effective to alter soil microenvironment and accelerate tetracycline degradation, behaving as a potential approach in soil remediation at tetracycline contaminated sites.
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- Zhong Lin
- Faculty of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China; Shenzhen Research Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Shenzhen 518108, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- College of Coastal Agricultural Sciences, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China
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- Faculty of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, PR China; Shenzhen Research Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Shenzhen 518108, PR China
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- College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, PR China.
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- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China.
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Gallego S, Nos D, Montemurro N, Sanchez-Hernandez JC, Pérez S, Solé M, Martin-Laurent F. Ecotoxicological impact of the antihypertensive valsartan on earthworms, extracellular enzymes and soil bacterial communities. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 275:116647. [PMID: 33582628 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2020] [Revised: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The use of reclaimed water in agriculture represents a promising alternative to relieve pressure on freshwater supplies, especially in arid or semiarid regions facing water scarcity. However, this implies introducing micropollutants such as pharmaceutical residues into the environment. The fate and the ecotoxicological impact of valsartan, an antihypertensive drug frequently detected in wastewater effluents, were evaluated in soil-earthworm microcosms. Valsartan dissipation in the soil was concomitant with valsartan acid formation. Although both valsartan and valsartan acid accumulated in earthworms, no effect was observed on biomarkers of exposure (acetylcholinesterase, glutathione S-transferase and carboxylesterase activities). The geometric mean index of soil enzyme activity increased in the soils containing earthworms, regardless of the presence of valsartan. Therefore, earthworms increased soil carboxylesterase, dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, β-glucosidase, urease and protease activities. Although bacterial richness significantly decreased following valsartan exposure, this trend was enhanced in the presence of earthworms with a significant impact on both alpha and beta microbial diversity. The operational taxonomic units involved in these changes were related to four (Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria and Firmicutes) of the eight most abundant phyla. Their relative abundances significantly increased in the valsartan-treated soils containing earthworms, suggesting the presence of potential valsartan degraders. The ecotoxicological effect of valsartan on microbes was strongly altered in the earthworm-added soils, hence the importance of considering synergistic effects of different soil organisms in the environmental risk assessment of pharmaceutical active compounds.
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- Sara Gallego
- AgroSup Dijon, INRAE, Univ. Bourgogne, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Agroécologie Dijon, France
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- ENFOCHEM, IDAEA-CSIC, C/Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain; Renewable Marine Resources Department, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Ecotoxicology, Institute of Environmental Science (ICAM), University of Castilla-La Mancha, 45071, Toledo, Spain
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- ENFOCHEM, IDAEA-CSIC, C/Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
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- Renewable Marine Resources Department, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- AgroSup Dijon, INRAE, Univ. Bourgogne, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Agroécologie Dijon, France.
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Yao X, Qiao Z, Zhang F, Liu X, Du Q, Zhang J, Li X, Jiang X. Effects of a novel fungicide benzovindiflupyr in Eisenia fetida: Evaluation through different levels of biological organization. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 271:116336. [PMID: 33370611 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Although benzovindiflupyr (BZF), which is a novel succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor fungicide, has considerable application potential worldwide, its extensive use is toxic to non-targeted soil organisms. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the acute and subchronic toxicity of BZF to earthworms (Eisenia fetida). The acute toxicity of BZF to adult and larval earthworms was measured, as indicated by the following LC50 values obtained after 14 days of exposure: 416 mg/kg for adult earthworms and 341 mg/kg for juveniles. Subchronic toxicity tests were conducted using only adult earthworms. The earthworms' weight gain was slower on days 14 and 28 after commencing the BZF T100 treatment (50 mg/kg of soil). Following 14 days of BZF exposure, enzymes and gene expressions associated with the mitochondrial respiratory chain and energy metabolism were activated to some extent, and the reactive oxygen species level and malondialdehyde content also increased. Antioxidant and detoxifying enzymes and metallothionein gene, Heat shock protein 70 gene associated with resistance to oxidative damage were also activated to varying degrees. Increased BZF concentrations corresponded to increased genotoxicity. Integrated biological response (IBR) values were calculated at the biochemical and molecular levels to show increased toxicity with increased BZF concentration. Although a series of biomarkers changes occurred after initiating BZF treatment, these changes were all likely to have been resisted by the earthworms' own antioxidant defense system and only showed phenotypic (weight-related) changes with treatments of 50 mg/kg. In conclusion, reasonable levels of BZF application may have little impact on earthworms. Our findings provide insights on the toxic effects of BZF on earthworms and may prove useful for risk assessments relating to BZF's impacts on soil ecosystems.
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- Xiangfeng Yao
- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- Tobacco Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Qingdao, 266101, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China.
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Yin B, Zhang M, Zeng Y, Chen H, Fan T, Wu Z, Cao L, Zhao Q. The changes of antioxidant system and intestinal bacteria in earthworms (Metaphire guillelmi) on the enhanced degradation of tetracycline. CHEMOSPHERE 2021; 265:129097. [PMID: 33279238 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Revised: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Tetracycline (TC) in soil severely imperils food security and ecosystem function. Metaphire guillelmi is a common species in farmland. It could impact the degradation of antibiotics. However, how it affects is rarely unknown. Hence, the present study aimed to investigate the effects of M. guillelmi on the TC degradation in soil and the changes of the antioxidant system and intestinal bacteria in M. guillelmi. The treatments that M. guillelmi was inoculated on soil contaminated with different TC concentrations were contrasted with those without M. guillelmi. After 21 days, the degradation rate of TC significantly increased by 13.70%, 18.14% and 29.01% at 10, 50 and 100 mg kg -1 TC dose, respectively, due to the inoculation of M. guillelmi. The half-life of TC was also shortened nearly by 1/3 to 2/3. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) increased in a dose-dependent manner with the increase of TC concentration on the 7th and 14th day. Catalase (CAT) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) presented an inverted U-shaped dose response on the 7th day, and the peak of enzyme activities occurred at TC concentration of 0.1, 1 mg kg -1 (CAT) and 0.1 mg kg -1 (GST). Malondialdehyde (MDA) contents did not change significantly. At the phylum level, only Verrucomicrobia significantly decreased under 1 mg kg -1 and 100 mg kg -1 TC dose. Genus Paracoccus, Singulisphaera, Acinetobacter and Bacillus significantly increased and became the dominant bacterium during the TC degradation. Overall, the antioxidant system and intestinal bacteria of M. guillelmi were affected by the different concentrations of TC pollution, which provided new ideas for the research of mechanism of TC degradation by earthworms in the future.
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- Bangyi Yin
- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China.
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Conde-Cid M, Fernández-Calviño D, Núñez-Delgado A, Fernández-Sanjurjo MJ, Arias-Estévez M, Álvarez-Rodríguez E. Estimation of adsorption/desorption Freundlich's affinity coefficients for oxytetracycline and chlortetracycline from soil properties: Experimental data and pedotransfer functions. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2020; 196:110584. [PMID: 32278142 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.110584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Tetracycline antibiotics spread in the environment constitute a real threat, causing risks that should be controlled. Retention/release of these compounds after interacting with soil components are the main process governing their entry into water bodies, plant uptake, and availability for soil microorganisms. In this work, batch-type experiments were performed to study adsorption/desorption of oxytetracycline (OTC) and chlortetracycline (CTC) in 63 crop soils. The Freundlich model satisfactory described adsorption curves, showing strong affinity of both antibiotics to soils, with adsorption coefficient (KF(ads)) values between 1015 and 9733 Ln μmol1-n kg-1 for OTC, and between 1099 and 11344 Ln μmol1-n kg-1 for CTC. Desorption percentages were always lower than 10%, indicating that adsorption is highly irreversible. Furthermore, the desorption coefficient (KF(des)) correlated positive and significantly with KF(ads), showing that those soils characterized by higher adsorption were also those showing less desorption. Soil organic carbon (SOC) was the soil characteristic that most explained the variance of KF, both for adsorption and desorption, which caused that soils with higher SOC scores showed higher adsorption and lower desorption for both antibiotics. Pedotransfer functions were developed for OTC and CTC, and resulted effective to satisfactory predict KF(ads) and KF(des) values. These equations would facilitate an easy identification of soils vulnerable to antibiotics pollution, which would allow to program appropriate management practices to decrease undesirable effects on the environment and on public health.
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- M Conde-Cid
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Fac. Sciences, Univ. Vigo, 32004, Ourense, Spain.
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- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Fac. Sciences, Univ. Vigo, 32004, Ourense, Spain
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- Dept. Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Engineering Polytechnic School, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, 27002, Lugo, Spain
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- Dept. Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Engineering Polytechnic School, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, 27002, Lugo, Spain
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- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Fac. Sciences, Univ. Vigo, 32004, Ourense, Spain
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- Dept. Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Engineering Polytechnic School, Univ. Santiago de Compostela, 27002, Lugo, Spain
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Chao H, Sun M, Ye M, Zheng X, Hu F. World within world: Intestinal bacteria combining physiological parameters to investigate the response of Metaphire guillelmi to tetracycline stress. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2020; 261:114174. [PMID: 32066061 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Due to the abusive usage of antibiotics in animal husbandry, a large amount of residual antibiotics has been released into the environment, therein posing great threat against both environment security and public health. Therefore, it is of great significance to investigate the toxicity of antibiotics on the widely-applied bioindicator-earthworm. In this work, the physiological parameters and the intestinal bacteria community of Metaphire guillelmi were monitored simultaneously to evaluate their sensitivity to the tetracycline (TC) exposure. As expected, the antioxidant enzyme activity and coelomocyte apoptosis acted fairly well as biomarkers for the TC toxicity. In contrast, the intestinal bacteria of Metaphire guillelmi responded varyingly to different TC doses. When TC concentration increased from 0 to 35.7 μg cm-2, the percentage of the Proteobacteria phylum declined significantly from 85.5% to 34.4%, while the proportions of the Firmicutes, Planctomycetes and Atinomycete phyla clearly increased (p < 0.05). Meanwhile, the levels of TC resistance genes tetA, tetC, and tetW increased with the increasing TC concentration, in contrast to the declined abundance in denitrifying genes nirS and nosZ (p < 0.05). By analyzing the correlation between the antioxidant enzyme activity and the dominant intestinal bacteria in the worm gut, it is interesting to found that the four dominant bacteria genera Mesorhizobium, Aliihoeflea, Romboutsia, and Nitrospira are the promising bioindicator of TC stress due to their sensitive response. This work shed novel light on evaluating the ecotoxicological risks posed by residual TC in environment by using a combination of physiological parameters and intestinal bacterial activity in earthworms.
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- Huizhen Chao
- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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Yao X, Zhang F, Qiao Z, Yu H, Sun S, Li X, Zhang J, Jiang X. Toxicity of thifluzamide in earthworm (Eisenia fetida). ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2020; 188:109880. [PMID: 31711777 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.109880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Revised: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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An increase in the area treated with the fungicide thifluzamide has triggered concerns for soil ecosystem service providers such as earthworms. Here, we assessed effects of thifluzamide on earthworm (Eisenia fetida) biomarker indicators of stress responses and reproduction following exposure to 0, 0.1, 1.0, and 10.0 mg of thifluzamide kg-1 soil for 7, 14, 21, and 28 d (biomarker indicators) and 30 d (reproduction). Growth and reproduction were inhibited by exposure to thifluzamide at 10.0 mg/kg, and the activities of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and respiratory chain complex II were inhibited by exposure to 1.0 and 10.0 mg/kg thifluzamide for the majority of the 28-d experiment. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) increased across all thifluzamide treatments, and the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) tended to be inhibited by thifluzamide. Upon exposure to thifluzamide, the activities of catalase (CAT) and guaiacol peroxidase (POD) initially increased and then decreased. Increased levels of malondialdehyde (MDA) were detected only at seven days after exposure, and genotoxicity increased as the thifluzamide concentration increased. The results suggest that thifluzamide presents a potential risk to earthworms at the concentration of 10.0 mg/kg, and its use should be moderated to reduce damage to soil ecosystem function.
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- Xiangfeng Yao
- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Biology, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China
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- College of Plant Protection Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China; Key Laboratory of Pesticide Toxicology & Application Technique, Tai'an, Shandong, 271018, PR China.
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Uptake and Effects of Pharmaceuticals in the Soil-Plant-Earthworm System. THE HANDBOOK OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/698_2020_617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Zhao H, Shi S, Zhao H, Guo J, Yang Z, Gao H, Lu F. Proteomic analysis of the earthworm Eisenia fetida exposed to oxytetracycline in soil. RSC Adv 2019; 9:41628-41638. [PMID: 35541612 PMCID: PMC9076484 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra06004a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 12/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Increasing attention has been paid to the toxicity and hazards of antibiotics on non-target organisms in soil ecosystems because redundant antibiotics in the excretion of treated animals are being brought into the soil by way of manure and sewage irrigation. In order to understand the toxic mechanisms of antibiotics in soil ecosystems, the earthworm Eisenia fetida was exposed to 500 mg kg-1 of oxytetracycline (OTC) as a typical antibiotic for 7, 14 and 21 days. The total proteins of E. fetida in each treatment were separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and differential expressed proteins were identified by MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS. A total of 30 proteins were successfully identified and divided into four categories based on the function. It was surprisingly found that more than 50% of identified proteins belong to the actin family, and all of them were down-regulated more than 2.0-fold. In the meantime, the fibrinolytic enzymes, an important protease with plasminogen activator activity, were suppressed in the last two weeks. The validations in the mRNA level were performed using RT-PCR. However, due to the incomplete genome sequence of E. fetida, we failed to identify more proteins response to OTC stress. This study may provide a new insight into the discovery of novel biomarkers for continuous-poured and low-toxicity pollutants.
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- Huabing Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, National Engineering Laboratory for Industrial Enzymes, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology Tianjin 300457 China +86-22-60602298 +86-22-60601958
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, National Engineering Laboratory for Industrial Enzymes, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology Tianjin 300457 China +86-22-60602298 +86-22-60601958
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- Animals, Plants and Food Testing Center of Tianjin Customs District Tianjin 300461 China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces Tianjin 300162 China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces Tianjin 300162 China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and Control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Logistics University of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces Tianjin 300162 China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation Microbiology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, National Engineering Laboratory for Industrial Enzymes, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science & Technology Tianjin 300457 China +86-22-60602298 +86-22-60601958
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Shao Y, Hou K, Du Z, Li B, Wang J, Juhasz A, Wang J, Zhu L. Evaluation of the toxicity of 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium tetrafluoroborate using earthworms (Eisenia fetida) in two soils. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 686:946-958. [PMID: 31412528 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Revised: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 06/01/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Herein, to research the toxic effect of ionic liquids (ILs) on earthworms and compare their different toxicities in different soils, 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([Bmim]BF4) was selected as a test substance, Eisenia fetida was selected as the experimental indicator organism, and artificial and fluvo-aquic soils were selected as the media. The acute toxicity, reactive oxygen species (ROS) content, detoxification enzyme (GST) activity, anti-oxidant enzyme activities, lipid peroxidation oxidative and DNA damage in earthworms were all measured to evaluate the toxicity of [Bmim]BF4. The results showed that either in fluvo-aquic soil or artificial soil, [Bmim]BF4 can stimulate the accumulation of ROS in earthworms, inducing activities of antioxidant enzymes and detoxification enzymes, inevitably causing lipid peroxidation and DNA damage in earthworms. The integrated biomarker response (IBR) indicated that the toxicity of [Bmim]BF4 in fluvo-aquic soil was greater than that in artificial soil. This experiment is relevant to the reliability of artificial soil toxicity research, and maybe this paper can provide a more authentic understanding of traditional toxicity experiments.
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- Yuting Shao
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China.
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China.
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- Future Industries Institute, Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia.
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China.
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- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, 61 Daizong Road, Taian 271018, PR China.
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Litskas VD, Karamanlis XN, Prousali SP, Koveos DS. The xenobiotic doxycycline affects nitrogen transformations in soil and impacts earthworms and cultivated plants. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2019; 54:1441-1447. [PMID: 31446836 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2019.1655368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2018] [Revised: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The effects of doxycycline (DOX) on microbial biomass C and nitrates production in soil, on earthworms and cultivated plants were examined. The concentrations for the various tests were selected after preliminary experiments, to present impact and be close to the environmentally relevant. The results revealed impacts of the antibiotic on microbial biomass C and NO3- production at the concentration level of 7.2 mg/kg soil dry weight (d.w.), but these parameters recovered to normal values since the antibiotic was applied once as a pulse. Moreover, the drug had negative effects on earthworm juveniles' total number at the concentration level of 30 mg/kg soil d.w. In addition, the toxicity tests on plant seedling growth revealed negative effects of the antibiotic for tomato at the concentration level of 45.44 mg/kg soil d.w. However, DOX showed positive effects for corn seedling growth, showing that the results of such experiments are valuable for sustainable animal wastes management. Non-significant effects were observed for seedling growth of pea, pumpkin and bean plants. The results of the study are valuable for the impact assessment of the antibiotic in the terrestrial environment and the management of contaminated animal waste.
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- Vassilis D Litskas
- Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Applied Zoology and Parasitology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Wang X, Zhu X, Peng Q, Wang Y, Ge J, Yang G, Wang X, Cai L, Shen W. Multi-level ecotoxicological effects of imidacloprid on earthworm (Eisenia fetida). CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 219:923-932. [PMID: 30572241 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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As a neurotoxic insecticide, imidacloprid (IMI) has been widely used for crop protection. However, continuous application of such pesticide in the environment may damage the non-target organisms in soil. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the effects of IMI on earthworms in terms of survival, avoidance behavior, reproduction, detoxification enzyme activity and gene expression using a systematic experimental approach. The results showed that the 14-day LC50 value of IMI was 2.26 (2.09-2.43) mg a.i. kg-1, and the 2-day AC50 value (concentration inducing an avoidance rate of 50%) of IMI was 1.34 (1.02-1.91) mg a.i. kg-1 to E. fetida. For reproduction, the 56-day EC50 value of IMI was 0.87 (0.66-1.33) mg a.i. kg-1 to E. fetida, and there was a positive correlation between the growth rate of earthworms and the number of juveniles in IMI treatments. Activities of carboxylesterase (CarE) and glutathione-S-transferases (GST) in earthworms were disturbed by IMI exposure. Moreover, effects of IMI on the CarE activity in earthworms were more severe and sensitive compared with the GST activity. The expressions of annetocin (ann) and calreticulin (crt) at the transcriptional level were decreased upon IMI exposure, reaching the lowest levels of 0.09 fold and 0.16 fold on day 7 and day 14, respectively. Transcriptionally controlled tumor protein (tctp), heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) and gst exhibited relatively obvious variations (up-regulation or down-regulation) when the exposure duration was extended. Taken together, these results comprehensively contributed to further understandings of the impacts of IMI on earthworms.
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- Xing Wang
- College of Grassland and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, China; State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Grassland and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Grassland and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, China; State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China.
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Key Laboratory for Pesticide Residue Detection of Ministry of Agriculture, Laboratory (Hangzhou) for Risk Assessment of Agricultural Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Quality and Standard for Agro-products, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, Zhejiang, China.
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Chevillot F, Convert Y, Desrosiers M, Cadoret N, Veilleux É, Cabana H, Bellenger JP. Selective bioaccumulation of neonicotinoids and sub-lethal effects in the earthworm Eisenia andrei exposed to environmental concentrations in an artificial soil. CHEMOSPHERE 2017; 186:839-847. [PMID: 28826132 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.08.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Revised: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 08/10/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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In this study, we evaluated the bioaccumulation of neonicotinoid insecticides in the earthworm Eisenia andrei exposed to environmental concentrations (<200 ng g-1 dry weight, nominal concentration) in an artificial soil. We tested the selectivity for neonicotinoids by exposing earthworms to 7 neonicotinoids alone and in more complex mixtures of 54 pesticides then 69 organic contaminants (OCs) (54 pesticides and 15 pharmaceuticals). We applied long-term (56-day) toxicity tests to further evaluate the effect of OCs on earthworms. We monitored adult survival, adult DNA damage using a comet assay on earthworm coelomocyte cells, and reproduction performance (i.e. number of cocoons and number and dry weight of juveniles). A selective bioaccumulation of neonicotinoid insecticides in adult and juvenile earthworms was found. This bioaccumulation is concomitant with a significant increase in adult DNA damage and significant effects on reproduction when earthworms were exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides alone. This study reveals a new potential point of entry of neonicotinoid insecticides into the wildlife food chain and also shows that E. andrei reproduction could be affected by long-term exposure to environmental concentrations of OCs.
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- Fanny Chevillot
- Centre Sève, Department of Chemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Sciences, J1K2R1 QC, Canada
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- Centre d'expertise en analyse environnementale du Québec, Ministère du Développement durable de l'Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, Quebec city, G1P3W8 QC, Canada
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- Centre d'expertise en analyse environnementale du Québec, Ministère du Développement durable de l'Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, Quebec city, G1P3W8 QC, Canada
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- Centre d'expertise en analyse environnementale du Québec, Ministère du Développement durable de l'Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, Quebec city, G1P3W8 QC, Canada
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- Centre d'expertise en analyse environnementale du Québec, Ministère du Développement durable de l'Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, Quebec city, G1P3W8 QC, Canada
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Engineering, J1K2R1 QC, Canada
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- Centre Sève, Department of Chemistry, Université de Sherbrooke, Faculty of Sciences, J1K2R1 QC, Canada.
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Magdaleno A, Carusso S, Moretton J. Toxicity and Genotoxicity of Three Antimicrobials Commonly Used in Veterinary Medicine. BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 2017; 99:315-320. [PMID: 28434066 DOI: 10.1007/s00128-017-2091-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The toxicity of chlortetracycline (CTC), oxytetracycline (OTC) and enrofloxacin (ENF) was tested on two green algal species: the international standard Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata and the native Argentine species Ankistrodesmus fusiformis. All three antibiotics inhibited the algal growth. The most sensitive species was P. subcapitata, for which the EC50 for CTC, OTC and ENF were 1.19 ± 0.53, 0.92 ± 0.30 and 5.18 ± 3.80 mg L-1, respectively. The EC50 for A. fusiformis, were 3.23 ± 0.53, 7.15 ± 2.69 and 10.6 ± 1.28 mg L-1, respectively. The genotoxicity of these veterinary antibiotics was also assessed using chromosome aberration (CA) and micronuclei (MN) induction in Allium cepa roots. Three concentrations were tested (0.1, 1 and 10 mg L-1). Only ENF at 1 and 10 mg L-1 showed any significant MN induction. These data revealed that CTC, OTC and ENF could cause toxicity on green algae, whereas ENF could cause genotoxicity on A. cepa plants.
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- Anahí Magdaleno
- Salud Pública e Higiene Ambiental, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junin 956, 4° Piso, C1113AAC, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Salud Pública e Higiene Ambiental, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junin 956, 4° Piso, C1113AAC, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Salud Pública e Higiene Ambiental, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junin 956, 4° Piso, C1113AAC, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Gomes AR, Justino C, Rocha-Santos T, Freitas AC, Duarte AC, Pereira R. Review of the ecotoxicological effects of emerging contaminants to soil biota. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH. PART A, TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING 2017; 52:992-1007. [PMID: 28598770 DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2017.1328946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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In recent years, emerging contaminants (e.g. pesticides and their metabolites, pharmaceuticals, personal and house care products, life-style compounds, food additives, industrial products and wastes, as well as nanomaterials) have become a problem to the environment. In fact, the cumulative use of a panoply of chemical substances in agriculture, industrial activities, in our homes and in health care services has led to their recent appearance in detectable levels in soils, surface, and groundwater resources, with unpredictable consequences for these ecosystems. Few data exist regarding the toxicity and potential for bioaccumulation in biota. When available, data were obtained only for some representatives of the main groups of chemical substances, and for a limited number of species, following non-standard protocols. This makes difficult the calculation of predicted no effect concentrations (PNEC) and the existence of sufficient data to set limits for their release into the environment. This is particularly concerning for the soil compartment, since only recently the scientific community, regulators, and the public have realised the importance of protecting this natural resource and its services to guarantee the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems and human well-being. In this context, this review paper aims to identify the major groups of soil emerging contaminants, their sources, pathways and receptors, and in parallel to analyse existing ecotoxicological data for soil biota.
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- Ana R Gomes
- a Department of Chemistry , University of Aveiro , Aveiro , Portugal
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- a Department of Chemistry , University of Aveiro , Aveiro , Portugal
- b CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies , Aveiro , Portugal
- c ISEIT/Viseu, Piaget Institute , Viseu , Portugal
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- a Department of Chemistry , University of Aveiro , Aveiro , Portugal
- b CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies , Aveiro , Portugal
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- d Catholic University of Portugal , CBQF - Centre of Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry - Associated Laboratory, Faculty of Biotechnology , Porto , Portugal
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- a Department of Chemistry , University of Aveiro , Aveiro , Portugal
- b CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies , Aveiro , Portugal
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- e Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences , University of Porto , Porto , Portugal
- f Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/UP) , University of Porto , Porto , Portugal
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Wang W, Tian G, Zong L, Zhou Y, Kang Y, Wang Q, Wang A. From illite/smectite clay to mesoporous silicate adsorbent for efficient removal of chlortetracycline from water. J Environ Sci (China) 2017; 51:31-43. [PMID: 28115143 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2016.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2016] [Revised: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A series of mesoporous silicate adsorbents with superior adsorption performance for hazardous chlortetracycline (CTC) were sucessfully prepared via a facile one-pot hydrothermal reaction using low-cost illite/smectite (IS) clay, sodium silicate and magnesium sulfate as the starting materials. In this process, IS clay was "teared up" and then "rebuilt" as new porous silicate adsorbent with high specific surface area of 363.52m2/g (about 8.7 folds higher than that of IS clay) and very negative Zeta potential (-34.5mV). The inert SiOSi (Mg, Al) bonds in crystal framework of IS were broken to form Si(Al) O- groups with good adsorption activity, which greatly increased the adsorption sites served for holding much CTC molecules. Systematic evaluation on adsorption properties reveals the optimal silicate adsorbent can adsorb 408.81mg/g of CTC (only 159.7mg/g for raw IS clay) and remove 99.3% (only 46.5% for raw IS clay) of CTC from 100mg/L initial solution (pH3.51; adsorption temperature 30°C; adsorbent dosage, 3g/L). The adsorption behaviors of CTC onto the adsorbent follows the Langmuir isotherm model, Temkin equation and pseudo second-order kinetic model. The mesopore adsorption, electrostatic attraction and chemical association mainly contribute to the enhanced adsorption properties. As a whole, the high-efficient silicate adsorbent could be candidates to remove CTC from the wastewater with high amounts of CTC.
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- Wenbo Wang
- Center of Eco-materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Center of Eco-materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Center of Eco-materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Center of Eco-materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Center of Eco-materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Center of Eco-materials and Green Chemistry, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Key Laboratory of Clay Mineral Applied Research of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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Wang J, Cao X, Chai L, Liao J, Huang Y, Tang X. Oxidative damage of naphthenic acids on the Eisenia fetida earthworm. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 2016; 31:1337-1343. [PMID: 25809073 DOI: 10.1002/tox.22139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Revised: 02/16/2015] [Accepted: 03/07/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Naphthenic acids (NAs) have been gaining recognition in recent years as potentially harmful environmental contaminants. Few studies have focused on the potential ecotoxicity of NAs to terrestrial environment. In this study, the responses of antioxidant system and lipid peroxidation and DNA damage were investigated after exposing Eisenia fetida to soil contaminated with NAs. The results indicated that NAs induced a significant increase (p < 0.05) in superoxide dismutase and catalase enzyme activities. The glutathione peroxidase enzyme activities were significantly inhibited (p < 0.05) in the medium and high dose treatments. An increase in malondialidehyde indicated that NAs could cause cellular lipid peroxidation in the tested earthworms. The percentage of DNA in the tail of comet assay of coelomocytes as an indication of DNA damage increased after treatment with different doses of NAs, and a dose-dependent DNA damage of coelomocytes was found. In conclusion, oxidative stress caused by NAs exposure induces physiological responses and genotoxicity on earthworms. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Environ Toxicol 31: 1337-1343, 2016.
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- Jie Wang
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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Liu X, Zhang S, Wang J, Wang J, Shao Y, Zhu L. Biochemical responses and DNA damage in earthworms (Eisenia fetida) induced by ionic liquid [omim]PF6. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:6836-6844. [PMID: 26667645 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5827-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Ionic liquids that are not that "green" to many organisms have recently been identified. This study examined the subchronic toxicity of the ionic liquid 1-octyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([omim]PF6) to earthworms (Eisenia fetida). Earthworms were exposed for a 28-day period (sampled on days 7, 14, 21, and 28) at concentrations of 0, 5, 10, 20, and 40 mg/kg. The levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), guaiacol peroxidase (POD)), detoxifying enzyme (glutathione S-transferase (GST)), lipid peroxidation, and DNA damage were measured. ROS significantly accumulated in all the treatment groups; the maximum ROS content was 51.9% higher than the control at 40 mg/kg [omim]PF6 on day 28. Increased SOD activities attenuated over the time of exposure, while the CAT activities of the treatment groups were similar to the controls, except on day 14. Furthermore, the activities of POD and GST were stimulated. Lipid peroxidation in earthworms was not apparent at 5 and 10 mg/kg [omim]PF6 but was quite obvious at 40 mg/kg [omim]PF6. In addition, DNA damage was dose- and time-dependent. In conclusion, [omim]PF6 caused oxidative stress and genotoxicity in earthworms.
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- Xiaoyan Liu
- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Road, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Road, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China.
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Road, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China.
- National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Road, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Road, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
- National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Agricultural Environment in Universities of Shandong, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China.
- College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, 61 Daizong Road, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China.
- National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Taian, 271018, People's Republic of China.
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Molecular characterization and toxicological effects of citrate-coated silver nanoparticles in a terrestrial invertebrate, the earthworm (Eisenia fetida). Mol Cell Toxicol 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s13273-015-0045-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/06/2022]
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Carballo M, Aguayo S, González M, Esperon F, Torre ADL. Environmental Assessment of Tetracycline’s Residues Detected in Pig Slurry and Poultry Manure. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.4236/jep.2016.71008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Shen CC, Shen DS, Shentu JL, Wang MZ, Wan MY. Could humic acid relieve the biochemical toxicities and DNA damage caused by nickel and deltamethrin in earthworms (Eisenia foetida)? ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. PROCESSES & IMPACTS 2015; 17:2074-2081. [PMID: 26511644 DOI: 10.1039/c5em00288e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The aim of the study was to determine whether humic acid (HA) prevented gene and biochemical toxic effects in earthworms (Eisenia foetida) exposed to nickel and deltamethrin (at 100 and 1 mg kg(-1), respectively) in soil. Cellular- and molecular-level toxic effects of nickel and deltamethrin in earthworms were evaluated by measuring damage to lipid membranes and DNA and the production of protein carbonyls over 42 days of exposure. Nickel and deltamethrin induced significant levels of oxidative stress in earthworms, increasing the production of peroxidation products (malondialdehyde and protein carbonyls) and increasing the comet assay tail DNA% (determined by single-cell gel electrophoresis). DNA damage was the most sensitive of the three indices because it gave a higher sample/control ratio than did the other indices. The presence of HA alleviated (in decreasing order of effectiveness) damage to DNA, proteins, and lipid membranes caused by nickel and deltamethrin. A low HA dose (0.5-1% HA in soil) prevented a great deal of lipid membrane damage, but the highest HA dose (3% HA in soil) prevented still more DNA damage. However, the malondialdehyde concentrations in earthworms were higher at the highest HA dose than at the lower HA doses. The amounts of protein carbonyls produced at different HA doses were not significantly different. The toxic effects to earthworms caused by increased oxidizable nickel concentrations could be relieved by adding HA.
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- Chen-Chao Shen
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Solid Waste Treatment and Recycling, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310012, China.
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Gao M, Qi Y, Song W, Zhou Q. Biomarker analysis of combined oxytetracycline and zinc pollution in earthworms (Eisenia fetida). CHEMOSPHERE 2015; 139:229-234. [PMID: 26134676 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.06.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2015] [Revised: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 06/12/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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To determine the interactive action of antibiotics and heavy metals, this study assessed pollutant-induced responses of cellular biomarkers in earthworms (Eisenia fetida) exposed to zinc (Zn(2+)) and oxytetracycline (OTC) in soil. Lysosomal membranes were damaged and coelomocyte apoptosis occurred with exposure to the individual and combined pollutants. Compared with Zn(2+) alone, lysosomal membrane stability and coelomocyte apoptosis decreased in the Zn(2+)-OTC combined treatment, possibly as a result of complexation of Zn(2+) and OTC at alkaline pH. Such complexation could reduce the toxicity of the pollutants. Lysosomal membrane stability and coelomocyte apoptosis are sensitive biomarkers and could be economical and rapid tools for the monitoring and assessment of a variety of pollutants.
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- Minling Gao
- Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China.
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- Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China.
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- Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China.
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- Department of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China.
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Rehman MSU, Rashid N, Ashfaq M, Saif A, Ahmad N, Han JI. Global risk of pharmaceutical contamination from highly populated developing countries. CHEMOSPHERE 2015; 138:1045-1055. [PMID: 23535471 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.02.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2012] [Revised: 02/14/2013] [Accepted: 02/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Global pharmaceutical industry has relocated from the west to Asian countries to ensure competitive advantage. This industrial relocation has posed serious threats to the environment. The present study was carried out to assess the possible pharmaceutical contamination in the environment of emerging pharmaceutical manufacturing countries (Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan). Although these countries have made tremendous progress in the pharmaceutical sector but most of their industrial units discharge wastewater into domestic sewage network without any treatment. The application of untreated wastewater (industrial and domestic) and biosolids (sewage sludge and manure) in agriculture causes the contamination of surface water, soil, groundwater, and the entire food web with pharmaceutical compounds (PCs), their metabolites and transformed products (TPs), and multidrug resistant microbes. This pharmaceutical contamination in Asian countries poses global risks via product export and international traveling. Several prospective research hypotheses including the development of new analytical methods to monitor these PCs/TPs and their metabolites, highly resistant microbial strains, and mixture toxicity as a consequence of pharmaceutical contamination in these emerging pharmaceutical exporters have also been proposed based on the available literature.
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- Muhammad Saif Ur Rehman
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea; Institute of Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Institute of Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan
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- Department of Environmental Science, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Advanced Wastewater Treatment Lab, Institute of Geology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
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Liu Y, Bao Y, Cai Z, Zhang Z, Cao P, Li X, Zhou Q. The effect of aging on sequestration and bioaccessibility of oxytetracycline in soils. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2015; 22:10425-10433. [PMID: 25721525 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4190-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2014] [Accepted: 01/29/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Veterinary antibiotics introduced into soil environment may change the composition and functioning of soil microbial communities and promote the spreading of antibiotic resistance. Actual risks depend on the antibiotic's bioaccessibility and sequestration in soils, which may vary with contact time and soil properties. We elucidated changes in the horsebean plant's bioaccessible oxytetracycline with increasing contact time in three different soils (cinnamon, red, and brown soil) and observed discrepancy in oxytetracycline dissipation using sequential extractions with H2O-, 0.01 M CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- in the same three soils. The results showed lower quantities of oxytetracycline with increasing contact time over 20 days than the level in freshly contaminated soils but hugely discrepant quantities among the three tested soils. In addition, aging largely reduced dissipation of H2O-, 0.01 M CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- extracted oxytetracycline in soils before planting. However, bioturbation helped increase the H2O-, CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- extracted oxytetracyline from cinnamon and brown soils with aging. Lastly, correlation analysis indicated that bioaccessibility of oxytetracycline significantly correlates with the total of H2O-, CaCl2-, and Mcllvaine- extracted oxytetracycline (0.676**, p < 0.01) in soils, especially the H2O- (0.789**, p < 0.01) and Mcllvaine- (0.686**, p < 0.01) extracted oxytetracycline with aging. Overall, this study provides some basic understanding of the aging effect on sequestration and bioaccessibility of veterinary antibiotics in soils.
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- Yuxia Liu
- Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, Ministry of Education/Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China
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Pino MR, Val J, Mainar AM, Zuriaga E, Español C, Langa E. Acute toxicological effects on the earthworm Eisenia fetida of 18 common pharmaceuticals in artificial soil. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2015; 518-519:225-237. [PMID: 25765375 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2014] [Revised: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 02/22/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Following soil applications of recycled water and biosolids, pharmaceutical residues can eventually enter the terrestrial environment. In vitro and in vivo assays have largely focused on the acute ecotoxicity of these compounds in aquatic systems. However, studies on the ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceuticals in soil biota are especially scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate the acute toxicity of 18 pharmaceuticals (4 NSAIDs, 5 blood lipid-lowering agents, 6 β-blockers and 3 antibiotics) that are usually found in the environment by using an Eisenia fetida bioassay. In addition, the presence of these pharmaceuticals in artificial soil was verified at the end of the test. Our results indicate that seven of the studied drugs cause acute adverse effects in E. fetida, in particular, the NSAIDs and the blood lipid-lowering agents. Ibuprofen (LC50=64.80 mg/kg) caused the highest acute toxicity for all tested compounds, followed by diclofenac (LC50=90.49 mg/kg) and simvastatin (LC50=92.70 mg/kg). Other tested pharmaceuticals from NSAIDs and blood lipid-lowering families have toxicity effects, from a LC50=140.87 mg/kg for gemfibrozil to 795.07 mg/kg for lovastatin. Atorvastatin, bezafibrate, β-blockers and antibiotics showed no detectable lethality in E. fetida. The four NSAIDs showed evidence of modification of their original chemical structure after 14 days so the detected toxicity may be due to the original product as well as their degradation products. The three blood lipid-lowering agents seem to be more stable in soil. From an environmental perspective, the lethal concentrations of the tested drugs are much greater than those reported in wastewater and biosolids, therefore acute toxic effects may be improbable. However, little is known about the accumulation of these substances in soils after regular applications, so accumulative and chronic effects cannot be excluded. Moreover, more studies are needed to determine the role of the degradation products of these pharmaceuticals on terrestrial toxicity.
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- Ma Rosa Pino
- Universidad San Jorge, Instituto de Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, GIMACÉS, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Instituto de Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, GIMACÉS, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A), GATHERS, Calle Mariano Esquillor, s/n, Edificio de Institutos, I3A, Bloque 5, 2.ª planta, 20018 Zaragoza, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Instituto de Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, GIMACÉS, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Instituto de Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, GIMACÉS, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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- Universidad San Jorge, Instituto de Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, GIMACÉS, Villanueva de Gállego, Zaragoza 50830, Spain.
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Bernard F, Brulle F, Dumez S, Lemiere S, Platel A, Nesslany F, Cuny D, Deram A, Vandenbulcke F. Antioxidant responses of Annelids, Brassicaceae and Fabaceae to pollutants: a review. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2015; 114:273-303. [PMID: 24951273 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2013] [Revised: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 04/20/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Pollutants, such as Metal Trace Elements (MTEs) and organic compounds (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides), can impact DNA structure of living organisms and thus generate damage. For instance, cadmium is a well-known genotoxic and mechanisms explaining its clastogenicity are mainly indirect: inhibition of DNA repair mechanisms and/or induction of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). Animal or vegetal cells use antioxidant defense systems to protect themselves against ROS produced during oxidative stress. Because tolerance of organisms depends, at least partially, on their ability to cope with ROS, the mechanisms of production and management of ROS were investigated a lot in Ecotoxicology as markers of biotic and abiotic stress. This was mainly done through the measurement of enzyme activities The present Review focuses on 3 test species living in close contact with soil that are often used in soil ecotoxicology: the worm Eisenia fetida, and two plant species, Trifolium repens (white clover) and Brassica oleracea (cabbage). E. fetida is a soil-dwelling organism commonly used for biomonitoring. T. repens is a symbiotic plant species which forms root nodule with soil bacteria, while B. oleracea is a non-symbiotic plant. In literature, some oxidative stress enzyme activities have already been measured in those species but such analyses do not allow distinction between individual enzyme involvements in oxidative stress. Gene expression studies would allow this distinction at the transcriptomic level. A literature review and a data search in molecular database were carried out on the basis of keywords in Scopus, in PubMed and in Genbank™ for each species. Molecular data regarding E. fetida were already available in databases, but a lack of data regarding oxidative stress related genes was observed for T. repens and B. oleracea. By exploiting the conservation observed between species and using molecular biology techniques, we partially cloned missing candidates involved in oxidative stress and in metal detoxification in E. fetida, T. repens and B. oleracea.
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- F Bernard
- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement EA4515 - Université Lille Nord de France - Lille 1, Ecologie Numérique et Ecotoxicologie, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales et Fongiques - Université de Lille 2, EA4483, F-59006 Lille Cedex, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales et Fongiques - Université de Lille 2, EA4483, F-59006 Lille Cedex, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales et Fongiques - Université de Lille 2, EA4483, F-59006 Lille Cedex, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement EA4515 - Université Lille Nord de France - Lille 1, Ecologie Numérique et Ecotoxicologie, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire de Toxicologie - Institut Pasteur de Lille, EA 4483, F-59800 Lille, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire de Toxicologie - Institut Pasteur de Lille, EA 4483, F-59800 Lille, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales et Fongiques - Université de Lille 2, EA4483, F-59006 Lille Cedex, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire des Sciences Végétales et Fongiques - Université de Lille 2, EA4483, F-59006 Lille Cedex, France; Faculté de Management de la Santé (ILIS) - Université de Lille 2, EA4483, F-59120 Loos, France
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- Université Lille Nord de France, F-59000 Lille, France; Laboratoire de Génie Civil et géo-Environnement EA4515 - Université Lille Nord de France - Lille 1, Ecologie Numérique et Ecotoxicologie, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
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Gopinathan R, Kanhere J, Banerjee J. Effect of malachite green toxicity on non target soil organisms. CHEMOSPHERE 2015; 120:637-644. [PMID: 25462308 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.09.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Revised: 09/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/12/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Although malachite green (MG), is banned in Europe and US for its carcinogenic and teratogenic effect, the dye being cheap, is persistently used in various countries for fish farming, silk, dye, leather and textile industries. Current research, however, fails to elucidate adequate knowledge concerning the effects of MG in our ecosystem. In the present investigation, for the first time, an attempt has been made to study the effects of MG on soil biota by testing Bacillus subtilis, Azotobacter chroococcum, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Penicillium roqueforti, Eisenia fetida and seeds of three crop plants of different families. Various tests were conducted for determining cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, acute toxicity, morphological and germination effect. Our data confirmed MG toxicity on fungi and bacteria (gram positive and gram negative organisms) showing elevated level of ROS. Genotoxicity caused in the microorganisms was detected by DNA polymorphism and fragmentation. Also, scanning electron microscopy data suggests that the inhibitory effect of MG to these beneficial microbes in the ecosystem might be due to pore formation in the cell and its eventual disruption. Filter paper and artificial soil test conducted on earthworms demonstrated a LC 50 of 2.6 mg cm(-2) and 1.45 mg kg(-1) respectively with severe morphological damage. However, seed germination of Mung bean, Wheat and Mustard was found to be unaffected in presence of MG up to 100 mL(-1) concentration. Thus, understanding MG toxicity in non target soil organisms and emphasis on its toxicological effects would potentially explicate its role as an environmental contaminant.
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- R Gopinathan
- Biology Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India
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- Biology Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India
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- Biology Department, 900 NCL Innovation Park, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411 008, India.
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Gao M, Zhou Q, Song W, Ma X. Combined effects of oxytetracycline and Pb on earthworm Eisenia fetida. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 2014; 37:689-696. [PMID: 24607684 DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2014.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2013] [Revised: 01/25/2014] [Accepted: 02/01/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Combined effects of oxytetracycline (OTC) and Pb on lysosomal membrane stability and coelomocyte apoptosis of earthworm were studied in the paper. Compared with control, the lysosomal membrane stability decreased and coelomocyte apoptosis increased in the treatments of single OTC and Pb contamination. As for compound pollution, combined effect of (5 mg/kg OTC+50 mg/kg Pb) treatment on earthworm lysosomal was synergistic (except 28 d). However, it was antagonistic at higher concentration of (10 mg/kg OTC+50 mg/kg Pb) and (20 mg/kg OTC+50 mg/kg Pb) treatment. In addition, coelomocyte apoptosis of earthworm decreased significantly compared with single OTC, indicating an antagonistic reaction. And joint toxicity of OTC and Pb decreased significantly with the increasing OTC concentration.
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- Minling Gao
- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China.
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China
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- School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, No. 399 Binshui Western Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China
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Vangheel M, Traunspurger W, Spann N. Effects of the antibiotic tetracycline on the reproduction, growth and population growth rate of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. NEMATOLOGY 2014. [DOI: 10.1163/15685411-00002740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The antibiotic tetracycline (TC) has been reported in natural systems, a consequence of its abundant usage in farming. TCs are protein synthesis inhibitors that are effective against bacteria but adverse effects on non-target organisms, whilst less well understood, have also been demonstrated. This study is the first investigation into the effects of this common antibiotic on the growth, reproduction and population growth rate (PGR) of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. All toxicological endpoints were shown to be affected negatively. TC concentrations as low as 5 mg l−1 (5 ppm) significantly reduced growth and reproduction, and even lower concentrations (3 mg l−1 or 3 ppm) significantly decreased the PGR. These levels are much higher than the TC concentrations detected in surface waters, sediments and soils (0.005-300 ppb). However, although the antibiotic might not pose a direct significant risk to nematodes in the natural environment, its use in RNAi experiments involving C. elegans may cause unwanted effects that influence interpretations of the results.
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- Matthew Vangheel
- 1Department of Biology, Laboratory for Aging Physiology and Molecular Evolution, Ghent University, Proeftuinstraat 86 N1, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
- 2Department of Animal Ecology, Bielefeld University, Morgenbreede 45, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- 2Department of Animal Ecology, Bielefeld University, Morgenbreede 45, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- 2Department of Animal Ecology, Bielefeld University, Morgenbreede 45, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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