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Oyedele GT, Adedara IA, Ikeji CN, Afolabi BA, Rocha JBT, Farombi EO. Metoprolol elicits neurobehavioral insufficiency and oxidative damage in nontarget Nauphoeta cinerea nymphs. Environ Toxicol 2023; 38:3006-3017. [PMID: 37584562 DOI: 10.1002/tox.23934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
Abstract
Metoprolol, a drug for hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, has become a contaminant of emerging concern because of its frequent detection in various environmental matrices globally. The dwindling in the biodiversity of useful insects owing to increasing presence of environmental chemicals is currently a great interest to the scientific community. In the current research, the toxicological impact of ecologically relevant concentrations of metoprolol at 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, and 0.5 μg/L on Nauphoeta cinerea nymphs following exposure for 42 consecutive days was evaluated. The insects' behavior was analyzed with automated video-tracking software (ANY-maze, Stoelting Co, USA) while biochemical assays were done using the midgut, head and fat body. Metoprolol-exposed nymphs exhibited significant diminutions in the path efficiency, mobility time, distance traveled, body rotation, maximum speed and turn angle cum more episodes, and time of freezing. In addition, the heat maps and track plots confirmed the metoprolol-mediated wane in the exploratory and locomotor fitness of the insects. Compared with control, metoprolol exposure decreased acetylcholinesterase activity in insects head. Antioxidant enzymes activities and glutathione level were markedly decreased whereas indices of inflammation and oxidative injury to proteins and lipids were significantly increased in head, midgut and fat body of metoprolol-exposed insects. Taken together, metoprolol exposure induces neurobehavioral insufficiency and oxido-inflammatory injury in N. cinerea nymphs. These findings suggest the potential health effects of environmental contamination with metoprolol on ecologically and economically important nontarget insects.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gbemisola T Oyedele
- Drug Metabolism and Toxicology Research Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Drug Metabolism and Toxicology Research Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Drug Metabolism and Toxicology Research Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Natural and Exact Sciences (CCNE), Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
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- Drug Metabolism and Toxicology Research Laboratories, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Chaves-Barquero LG, Humeniuk BW, Luong KH, Cicek N, Wong CS, Hanson ML. Crushed recycled glass as a substrate for constructed wetland wastewater treatment: a case study of its potential to facilitate pharmaceutical removal. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2021; 28:52306-52318. [PMID: 34003437 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-14483-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The use of recycled glass as a substrate for constructed wetlands was assessed through two studies. The first study examined the dissipation of atenolol, carbamazepine, and sulfamethoxazole in mesocosm-modeled wetlands using glass or limestone gravel as substrates, with or without cattails (Typha spp.). Following pseudo-first-order kinetics, atenolol dissipated the fastest from the water surface of the mesocosms (t1/2~1 day), followed by sulfamethoxazole (t1/2~14 days), and carbamazepine (t1/2~48 days), with no significant differences across treatments. Increased half-lives were observed at greater depth, likely due to light screening. A Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis diagnosed sunlight absorption rates and second-order hydroxyl-mediated indirect photolysis rates to be the main sources of uncertainty in our dissipation rate estimates, compared to our observed rates. The second study examined in situ pharmaceutical removal in tertiary pilot-scale subsurface filters made of crushed recycled glass or sand in a wastewater treatment facility in Manitoba, Canada. Glass and sand showed no significant differences for pharmaceutical removals; atenolol and metoprolol were removed below limits of detection, while carbamazepine and sulfamethoxazole persisted over a retention time of 24 h. Overall, recycled glass performed similarly to traditional substrates for wetland-based wastewater treatment.
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- Luis G Chaves-Barquero
- Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada.
- Escuela de Química, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Cartago, 30101, Costa Rica.
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Richardson College for the Environment, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 5V6, Canada
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
- Escuela de Química, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Cartago, 30101, Costa Rica
- Richardson College for the Environment, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9, Canada
- Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626, USA
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada
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Feitosa MH, Prado TM, Santos AM, Silva LP, Grosseli GM, Fadini PS, Fatibello-Filho O, Moraes FC. Titanium dioxide/cadmium sulfide photoanode applied to photoelectrodegradation of naproxen in wastewater. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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