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Duarte-Restrepo E, Noguera-Oviedo K, Butryn D, Wallace JS, Aga DS, Jaramillo-Colorado BE. Spatial distribution of pesticides, organochlorine compounds, PBDEs, and metals in surface marine sediments from Cartagena Bay, Colombia. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2021; 28:14632-14653. [PMID: 33216302 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-11504-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 04/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
Abstract
Cartagena Bay is an estuarine system located in the Caribbean Sea (Colombia, South America), that receives fresh water from Canal del Dique, which is connected to the Magdalena River, the most important river of Colombia, with some of the most prominent Colombian cities located in its watershed, which has a high sediment yield. An analysis of persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals was carried out on marine sediments from Cartagena Bay. Cartagena Bay sediments deployed the occurrence of total levels of pesticides (thiocarbamates, bromacil, triazines, organochlorines, and organophosphorus), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), in sediments ranging from 0.83-33.67 ng/g dry-weight, 0.05-0.34 ng/g dry-weight, and 0.06-19.58 ng/g dry-weight, respectively. Their concentrations were lower than those reported in NOAA Screening Quick Reference Tables. DDTs and PCBs are banned organochlorine compounds, since, even at low levels, their presence in sediments represents a threat to aquatic organisms and, therefore, to human health through the trophic chain. Sediments showed high concentrations of strontium (50-959.6 mg/kg). All metals evaluated in the marine sediments were found in the S6 sampling point; this was near tannery and hydrocarbon industries (Pb 37.1 mg/kg, Cr 137.2 mg/kg, Cd 1.7 mg/kg, Cu 64.4 mg/kg, As 13.1 mg/kg, Sr 318.9 mg/kg); these results exceeded the accepted values of threshold effect levels (TEL) used as an indicator of their potential risk on marine life.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edisson Duarte-Restrepo
- Agrochemical Research Group, Chemistry Program, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
- Doctoral Program in Environmental Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia
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- Chemistry Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 611 Natural Science Complex, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 611 Natural Science Complex, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 611 Natural Science Complex, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
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- Chemistry Department, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, 611 Natural Science Complex, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA.
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- Agrochemical Research Group, Chemistry Program, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
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Duarte-Restrepo E, Jaramillo-Colorado BE, Duarte-Jaramillo L. Effects of chlorpyrifos on the crustacean Litopenaeus vannamei. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231310. [PMID: 32282847 PMCID: PMC7153863 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 03/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Shrimps can be used as indicators of the quality of aquatic systems exposed to a variety of pollutants. Chlorpyrifos is one of the most common pesticides found in environmental samples. In order to evaluate the effects of chlorpyrifos, adult organisms of Litopenaeus vannamei were exposed to two sublethal concentrations of the pesticide (0.7 and 1.3 μg/L) for four days. The LC50 (96-hours) value was determined and Lipid oxidation levels (LPO) and the activities of catalase (CAT), glutathion peroxidase (GPx), glutathion-S-transferase (GST) were assessed on the muscle, hepatopancreas and gills from the exposed organisms. In addition, inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was determined in the brain. LC50 (96-hours) was 2.10 μg/L of chlorpyrifos. Catalase activity and LPO were elevated in the three tissues, whereas a decrease of AChE activities in the brain and an increase of GST activity in the hepatopancreas were observed.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edisson Duarte-Restrepo
- Agrochemical Research Group, Chemical Program, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
- Doctoral Program in Environmental Toxicology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia
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- Agrochemical Research Group, Chemical Program, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
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- Agrochemical Research Group, Chemical Program, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia
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Jaramillo-Colorado B, Echeverri G, Duarte-Restrepo E, Aga D, Noguera-Oviedo K. Pesticide residues in marine sediments. A case study: Cartagena Bay (Colombia). Toxicol Lett 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2016.07.516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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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