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Chlorinated biphenyls in fish, mussels and birds from the River Rhine and the Netherlands coastal area.
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Polychlorinated biphenyls are widely used in industry, and they are now making an appearance in the world's wildlife.Abstract:
Polychlorinated biphenyls are widely used in industry, and they are now making an appearance in the world's wildlife. Besides being a hazard in their own right, they interfere with the detection of organochlorine insecticides such as DDT.read more
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Seabirds as monitors of the marine environment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used stable isotopes of N and C from the same feathers used for mercury measurement, a technique that also permits the monitoring of trophic status over time or between regions.
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Separation and characterization of highly purified forms of liver microsomal cytochrome P-450 from rats treated with polychlorinated biphenyls, phenobarbital, and 3-methylcholanthrene.
TL;DR: The forms of cytochrome P-450 obtained from phenobarbitaland 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats are indistinguishable from the corresponding forms from Aroclor 1254~treated rats by all criteria examined.
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Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated fish induces vitamin A and thyroid hormone deficiency in the common seal (Phoca vitulina)
TL;DR: It is suggested that reduced plasma retinol and thyroid hormone levels, which may result in an increased susceptibility to microbial infections, reproductive disorders and other pathological alterations, are critically involved in the recently reported reproductive Disorders and the lethal viral infections in seals and other marine mammal populations in the Baltic, North Sea and Wadden Sea.
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Great Lakes embryo mortality, edema, and deformities syndrome (GLEMEDS) in colonial fish-eating birds: similarity to chick-edema disease.
TL;DR: More reliable data show that the onset of the improvement of reproduction of Lake Ontario herring gulls coincided with the declines in organochlorine compounds and particularly 2,3,7,8-TCDD and PCB.
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Birds as monitors of pollutants
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that birds may reflect pollutant hazards to humans better than do most invertebrates, since they are high in food chains and have more complex physiology.
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Clean-up of animal fats and dairy products for the analysis of chlorinated pesticide residues
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Organochlorine pesticides in seals and porpoises.
A. V. Holden,K. Marsden +1 more
TL;DR: Seals and porpoises in Scotland and Canada, far from the sites of application of pesticides, can accumulate high concentrations of residues in their blubber which cannot be confined to their place of discharge.
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Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in British Wildlife
TL;DR: Polychlorobiphenyl compounds have been detected in British wildlife, and in birds' livers and eggs they are often in greater quantities than organochlorine pesticide residues.
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Studies of the Chick Edema Disease 3. Similarity of Symptoms Produced by Feeding Chlorinated Biphenyl
TL;DR: Early attempts to chemically identify the chick edema disease factor have confirmed and extended the early studies and have shown that the factor is quite toxic for the chick.