Impact of hypoxia on hemolymph contamination by uranium in an aquatic animal, the freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea |
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Authors: | Tran Damien Massabuau Jean-Charles Garnier-Laplace Jacqueline |
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Institution: | a Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Place du Dr Peyneau, 33120 Arcachon, France b Laboratoire de Radioécologie et Ecotoxicologie, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Cadarache, Bat. 186, BP3, 13115 Saint Paul-Lez-Durance, Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | Multi-stress situations are a major question and low-oxygenated waters (hypoxia) are a growing problem. Importantly, hypoxia stimulates the ventilatory flow rate in aquatic animals and this increases gill exposure to contaminants. Surprisingly, in the freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea, this is associated with increased bioaccumulation of uranium in gills but not in deep tissues. We searched for an explanation by analyzing hemolymph U-transport in Corbicula exposed to 0.36 μM dissolved uranium at various O2-levels for 10 days. In hypoxia, one observed an increased U concentration in the arterial hemolymph flowing from gills to tissues but this was not associated with an increased U concentration in the venous hemolymph nor in the other tissues. We conclude that the cardiac flow rate must have decreased to explain this absence of over-accumulation. In addition to its already known deleterious effects, uranium can thus deeply impair cardiac flow rate in exposed aquatic animals during multi-stress exposures. |
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Keywords: | Hypoxia Hemolymph Arterial Venous Uranium Corbicula fluminea |
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