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A review of heavy metal and organochlorine levels in marine mammals in Australia.
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A comprehensive pathological assessment of marine mammals is needed in order to evaluate the effects of toxic contaminants, and information on organochlorine levels is sparse, and suggest low levels when compared to other parts of the world.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 1994-09-16. It has received 106 citations till now.read more
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Geographical and temporal variation in levels of organochlorine contaminants in marine mammals.
TL;DR: Assessment of organochlorine trends in the now highly polluted populations of the temperate fringe of the northern hemisphere and to the implementation of long-term monitoring of marine mammal populations inhabiting polar regions are needed.
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Heavy metals in marine mammals
TL;DR: Doubts are left about the general applicability of collected values at which an effect at individual or population level might be expected, because the available measurements have almost been all performed on animals found dead, and the data are always difficult to interpret.
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Concentration and subcellular distribution of trace elements in liver of small cetaceans incidentally caught along the Brazilian coast.
Takashi Kunito,Shinji Nakamura,Tokutaka Ikemoto,Yasumi Anan,Reiji Kubota,Shinsuke Tanabe,Fernando C. W. Rosas,Gilberto Fillmann,James W. Readman +8 more
TL;DR: Hepatic concentrations of Ag in non-soluble fraction in nuclear and mitochondrial fraction of the liver suggest that Ag might be detoxified by Se via formation of Ag2Se in the liver of Franciscana dolphin.
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CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON (HCB, DDTs AND PCBs LEVELS IN CETACEANS STRANDED ALONG THE ITALIAN COASTS: AN OVERVIEW
Letizia Marsili,Silvano Focardi +1 more
TL;DR: Remarkable differences found between males and females of each species confirm that during gestation and lactation, females undergo disintoxication by passing much of their total burden of CHs to their young.
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PCB problems in the future: Foresight from current knowledge
TL;DR: Considering all the information on the occurrence, distribution and behaviour of PCBs in the ecosystems, the marine mammals are probably the most vulnerable and possible target organisms in forthcoming long-term PCB toxicity.
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Critical review of selected heavy metal and chlorinated hydrocarbon concentrations in the marine environment
TL;DR: A critical review of existing concentrations of the potential pollutants Hg, Cd, Pb, PCBs and DDT in marine waters, sediments and biota of the global ocean indicates that the highest concentrations are usually found in the most densely populated and industrialized regions which are often located near major river estuaries as discussed by the authors.
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Retrospective of the 1988 European seal epizootic
TL;DR: The disease that killed more than 18 000 harbour seals Phoca vitulina and a small number of grey seals Halichoerus grypus in the North Sea, the Kattegat-Skagerrak and the southern Baltic in 1988 has now been well described for all afflicted areas, and the pathological and virological findings are in good concordance from all seal groups studied.
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