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Provedor de dados: | 74
País: | Brazil
Título: | Mutagenic effects of tributyltin and inorganic lead (Pb II) on the fish H. malabaricus as evaluated using the comet assay and the piscine micronucleus and chromosome aberration tests
Autores: | Ferraro,Marcos Vinícius M.; Fenocchio,Alberto Sérgio; Mantovani,Mario Sérgio; Ribeiro,Ciro de Oliveira; Cestari,Marta Margarete.
Data: | 2004-01-01
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Comet assay; Micronucleus; Chromosome aberrations; Tributyltin; Lead; Fish.
Resumo: | Genotoxicity studies on toxic metals and their organic compounds are very important, especially so in the investigation of the effects of these compounds on the aquatic environments where they tend to accumulate. The use of endemic aquatic organisms as biological sentinels has proved useful to environmental monitoring. We assessed the mutagenic potential of tributyltin (TBT) and inorganic lead (PbII) using samples of the fish Hoplias malabaricus (commonly called traíra) using the comet assay and the piscine micronucleus and chromosome aberration tests. Eighteen H. malabaricus were acclimatized in three individual aquariums, each containing six fish, six fish being exposed to 0.3 mg/g of body weight (bw) of TBT, six to 21 mg/g bw of PbII and six being used as controls. Exposure to TBT and PbII was achieved by feeding the fish every five days with Astyanax (a small fish that is part of the normal diet of H. malabaricus) which had been injected with solutions of TBT, PbII or with water (the control group). After two months the H. malabaricus were sacrificed and their peripheral blood collected and subjected to the comet and micronucleus assays, the chromosome aberration assay being conducted using kidney-tissue. Although the comet assay showed now mutagenic effects at the lead concentrations used but encountered results with TBT, the micronucleus and chromosome aberrations assays both indicated that TBT and PbII are potentially mutagenic (p &lt; 0.01), the micronucleus assay showing morphological alterations of the nucleus.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572004000100017
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
Relação: | 10.1590/S1415-47572004000100017
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.27 n.1 2004
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess