PMID- 27113024
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170515
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 107
IP  - 1
DP  - 2016 Jun 15
TI  - Validating the use of biopsy sampling in contamination assessment studies of 
      small cetaceans.
PG  - 364-369
LID - S0025-326X(16)30222-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.04.021 [doi]
AB  - Remote biopsy sampling is the most common technique for acquiring samples from 
      free-ranging marine mammals. However, such techniques may result in variable 
      sampling being sometimes superficial skin and blubber biopsies. For decades, 
      blubber has been used to monitor the exposure of marine mammals to persistent 
      organic pollutants (POPs), but little is known regarding the variability of POPs 
      as a function of blubber depth in small cetaceans and the available literature 
      offers variable results. Thus, the aim of the present study was to validate 
      biopsy sampling for monitoring contaminant concentrations in small, free-ranging 
      cetaceans. Samples from the dorsal blubber of 10 incidentally captured Atlantic 
      spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) were separated into two different layers 
      (outer and inner) to investigate the influence of sampling depth on POP 
      concentrations. POP concentrations were compared to those of the full blubber 
      layer. The results revealed no significant differences in lipid content between 
      males and females or among the inner, outer and full blubber layers (p>0.05). 
      Moreover, the wet and lipid weight concentrations of all POP classes analysed 
      [i.e. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), 
      polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), 
      hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), chlordanes (CHLs) and mirex] did not differ 
      significantly with blubber depth (p>0.05). POP classes followed the same 
      decreasing order of wet weight concentrations in blubber layers and full blubber: 
      PCBs>DDTs>PBDEs>mirex>HCB>HCHs>CHLs. Moreover, there was a low degree of 
      differentiation in the accumulation of POP congeners. The present findings 
      indicated that the distribution of contaminants was homogenous with blubber 
      depth, which validates the use of biopsy sampling for the assessment of 
      contaminants in small cetaceans.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Mendez-Fernandez, Paula
AU  - Mendez-Fernandez P
AD  - Laboratorio de Quimica Organica Marinha, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidade de 
      Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP 05508-120, Brazil. Electronic address: 
      paula.mendez_fernandez@outlook.com.
FAU - Galluzzi Polesi, Paola
AU  - Galluzzi Polesi P
AD  - Laboratorio de Quimica Organica Marinha, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidade de 
      Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP 05508-120, Brazil.
FAU - Taniguchi, Satie
AU  - Taniguchi S
AD  - Laboratorio de Quimica Organica Marinha, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidade de 
      Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP 05508-120, Brazil.
FAU - de O Santos, Marcos C
AU  - de O Santos MC
AD  - Laboratorio de Biologia da Conservacao de Mamiferos Aquaticos, Instituto 
      Oceanografico, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP 05508-120, Brazil.
FAU - Montone, Rosalinda C
AU  - Montone RC
AD  - Laboratorio de Quimica Organica Marinha, Instituto Oceanografico, Universidade de 
      Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP 05508-120, Brazil.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20160423
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 12789-03-6 (Chlordan)
RN  - 4Z87H0LKUY (Hexachlorobenzene)
RN  - CIW5S16655 (DDT)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adipose Tissue/*chemistry
MH  - Animals
MH  - Biopsy
MH  - Chlordan/analysis
MH  - DDT/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Female
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/*analysis
MH  - Hexachlorobenzene/analysis
MH  - Male
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
MH  - *Stenella
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Blubber
OT  - Contamination assessment
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
OT  - Stenella frontalis
EDAT- 2016/04/27 06:00
MHDA- 2017/05/16 06:00
CRDT- 2016/04/27 06:00
PHST- 2016/01/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/04/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/04/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/04/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/04/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/05/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0025-326X(16)30222-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.04.021 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2016 Jun 15;107(1):364-369. doi: 
      10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.04.021. Epub 2016 Apr 23.