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Arsenic geochemistry and health 总被引:19,自引:0,他引:19
Arsenic occurs naturally in the earth's crust and is widely distributed in the environment. Natural mineralization and activities of microorganisms enhance arsenic mobilization in the environment but human intervention has exacerbated arsenic contamination. Although arsenic is useful for industrial, agricultural, medicinal and other purposes, it exerts a toxic effect in a variety of organisms, including humans. Arsenic exposure may not only affect and disable organs of the body, especially the skin, but may also interfere with the proper functioning of the immune system. This paper, therefore, generally highlights the toxic effects of arsenic as well as its mobilization in the natural environment and possible controls. It also briefly attempts to outline the impact of arsenic on the immune system, whose alteration could lead to viral/bacterial infections. 相似文献
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Magnoli Karen Carranza Cecilia Soledad Aluffi Melisa Eglé Magnoli Carina Elizabeth Barberis Carla Lorena 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2020,27(31):38501-38512
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - One of the main herbicides used in the agricultural environments is 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). It is a synthetic plant hormone auxin... 相似文献
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Summary Magpie (Pica pica) brood defense against a human at the nest was studied in a Mediterranean population with low renesting potential. Variations in two defense measures recorded during 106 trials at 41 different nests were positively correlated with brood age. Ineremental effects due to the number of successive visits to nests by us, brood size, and the time in the breeding season were not significant. Partial correlation analyses showed that visit rate was not an important determinant of nest defense, which thus favors an adaptive explanation of nest defense patterns. Two functional hypotheses to account for the increase in defense intensity with brood age were tested: whether (1) increased parental defense serves to compensate the higher predation risk of older nests or (2) increased parental defense reflects the increasing reproductive value of nestlings as they grow older. Daily mortality and incidende of predation (estimated from contribution of whole-brood losses to total mortality) was higher early in the nestling period, hence providing weak evidence for the assumption on which hypothesis (1) is based. The timing of parental defense intensity did not mirror variations in predation risk for the nest but variations in reproductive value of the brood, as can be estimated from daily mortality, thus supporting hypothesis (2). Magpie parents increased defense intensity in response to premature escaping by almost fully-developed nestlings. Since such a response lowers predation risk for the offspring and increases their probability of survival, this finding supports hypothesis (2), but runs contrary to hypothesis (1). Parents also increased defense in response to play-backs of alarm calls uttered by nestlings during escaping episodes. It is argued that parents should continuously monitor the degree of offspring development in order to assess their reproductive value and that, by alarm calling, chicks honestly make their parents aware of the gain in reproductive value that results from enhancement in locomotory abilities that occur at the end of the nestling period. 相似文献
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Ballesteros ML Bianchi GE Carranza M Bistoni MA 《Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B》2007,42(4):351-357
Toxicity tests using adult specimens of Jenynsia multidentata were carried out during 96 hours in order to determine the lethal concentration (LC50) of endosulfan. Histological alterations were determined in gills and liver. Gill damage was quantified as secondary lamellae thickness. The 96 hr LC50 values were significantly different between males (0.719 microg x L(-1)) and females (1.317 microg x L(-1)). The sex difference was attributed to the dimorphism in the lipid content in females (2.16%) and males (1.79%). Histological alterations in gills included hypertrophy and lifting of the epithelium of the secondary lamellae and aneurisms. These alterations caused a significant increase of the secondary lamellae thickness in treatment versus control fish. Finally, reversible histological alterations (such as hydropic degeneration and dilation of sinusoids) were observed in the liver of exposed fish as well as an irreversible change such as necrosis at the highest concentrations. 相似文献
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Cecilia S. Carranza Carla L. Barberis Stella M. Chiacchiera Ana María Dalcero Carina E. Magnoli 《Journal of environmental science and health. Part. B》2016,51(1):35-43
Glyphosate-based herbicides are extensively used in Argentina's agricultural system to control undesirable weeds. This study was conducted to evaluate the culturable mycobiota [colony forming units (CFU) g?1 and frequency of fungal genera or species] from an agricultural field exposed to pesticides. In addition, we evaluated the tolerance of A. oryzae and nontoxigenic A. flavus strains to high concentrations (100 to 500 mM – 17,000 to 84,500 ppm) of a glyphosate commercial formulation. The analysis of the mycobiota showed that the frequency of the main fungal genera varied according to the analyzed sampling period. Aspergillus spp. or Aspergillus section Flavi strains were isolated from 20 to 100% of the soil samples. Sterilia spp. were also observed throughout the sampling (50 to 100%). Aspergillus section Flavi tolerance assays showed that all of the tested strains were able to develop at the highest glyphosate concentration tested regardless of the water availability conditions. In general, significant reductions in growth rates were observed with increasing concentrations of the herbicide. However, a complete inhibition of fungal growth was not observed with the concentrations assayed. This study contributes to the knowledge of culturable mycobiota from agricultural soils exposed to pesticides and provides evidence on the effective growth ability of A. oryzae and nontoxigenic A. flavus strains exposed to high glyphosate concentrations in vitro. 相似文献
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Carranza ML Acosta AT Stanisci A Pirone G Ciaschetti G 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2008,140(1-3):99-107
Many recent developments in coastal science have gone against the demands of European Union legislation. Coastal dune systems
which cover small areas of the earth can host a high level of biodiversity. However, human pressure on coastal zones around
the world has increased dramatically in the last 50 years. In addition to direct habitat loss, the rapid extinction of many
species that are unique to these systems can be attributed to landscape deterioration through the lack of appropriate management.
In this paper, we propose to use of an ecosystem classification technique that integrates potential natural vegetation distribution
as a reference framework for coastal dune EU Habitats (92/43) distribution analysis and assessment. As an example, the present
study analyses the EU Habitats distribution within a hierarchical ecosystem classification of the coastal dune systems of
central Italy. In total, 24 land elements belonging to 8 land units, 5 land facets, 2 land systems and 2 land regions were
identified for the coastal dunes of central Italy, based on diagnostic land attributes. In central Italy, coastal dune environments
including all the beach area, mobile dunes and all the fixed-dune land elements contain or could potentially hold at least
one EU habitat of interest. Almost all dune slack transitions present the potentiality for the spontaneous development of
EU woodlands of interest. The precise information concerning these ecosystems distribution and ecological relationships that
this method produces, makes it very effective in Natura 2000 European network assessment. This hierarchical ecosystem classification
method facilitates the identification of areas to be surveyed and eventually bound, under the implementation of EU Habitat
directive (92/43) including areas with highly disturbed coastal dune ecosystems. 相似文献
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Alvar Carranza Omar Defeo Juan Carlos Castilla Thiago Fernando L. V. B. Rangel 《Marine Biology》2009,156(9):1917-1928
We tested to what extent mean sea surface temperature, geometric constraints in range size frequency distributions (the mid-domain
effect) and geographical coastline distance to the equator are related to species richness of coastal Mytilidae and Ostreidae
in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of South America (excluding islands). The location and magnitude of the peaks in species
richness, as well as the shape of the pattern, varied between oceans. Results were not biased by spatial autocorrelation,
although strong multicollinearity among predictor variables was detected. However, these regional-extent regression models
suggest differences in the causal factors that explain richness gradients of studied bivalves in South American coasts, most
likely related to historical events such as the Southeastern Pacific Pleistocene mass extinction of bivalves. Our results
reinforced the conclusion that there is no single best explanatory cause for the latitudinal gradient in species richness
and showed that the correlative approach is not useful when predictor variables are strongly correlated. 相似文献
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Nikoloff Noelia Carranza Martin Ana C. Fabra Mariana C. Furnus Cecilia C. 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2021,28(23):29188-29199
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The aim of this study was to evaluate the genotoxic and cytotoxic effects of amitraz (AMZ) on the primary culture of bovine cumulus cells (CC) and... 相似文献