PMID- 31923702
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200408
LR  - 20200408
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 710
DP  - 2020 Mar 25
TI  - First evaluation of legacy persistent organic pollutant contamination status of 
      stranded Yangtze finless porpoises along the Yangtze River Basin, China.
PG  - 136446
LID - S0048-9697(19)36442-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136446 [doi]
AB  - Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis), 
      inhabiting the Yangtze River, are an endangered species in China. They are 
      threatened by various kinds of pollutants, among which persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) are of special concern due to their toxicities, high 
      persistency and bioaccumulation potential. To better understand the POP 
      contamination status of Yangtze finless porpoises, an investigation of stranded 
      porpoises along the Yangtze River and adjacent two major lakes in the Yangtze 
      River basin was conducted; the concentrations of four groups of legacy POPs, 
      i.e., hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), 
      polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), were 
      determined in the blubber samples. The mean concentrations of SigmaHCHs (the sum of 
      all congeners/isomers), SigmaDDTs, SigmaPBDEs and SigmaPCBs, were 1670 +/- 4210, 28,800 +/- 
      52,300, 141 +/- 174, and 1020 +/- 1070 ng/g lipid weight, respectively; the high 
      DDTs/PCBs ratio reflected a strong influence of agricultural pollution in the 
      Yangtze River basin, and the high alpha/gamma ratio of HCH isomers indicated the usage of 
      lindane in the corresponding areas; the predominance of low-brominated congeners 
      of PBDEs may be related to congruent patterns in the related environmental 
      matrices. A hazard quotient risk assessment revealed that DDTs could pose a 
      relatively high risk to Yangtze finless porpoises compared with the risks posed 
      by the other POPs.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - Zhang, Kai
AU  - Zhang K
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; 
      State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat 
      Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
FAU - Qian, Zhengyi
AU  - Qian Z
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China; 
      University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
FAU - Ruan, Yuefei
AU  - Ruan Y
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat 
      Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
FAU - Hao, Yujiang
AU  - Hao Y
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
FAU - Dong, Weiwei
AU  - Dong W
AD  - Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu 233030, China.
FAU - Li, Ke
AU  - Li K
AD  - Wuhan Institute for Drug and Medical Device Control, Wuhan 430075, China.
FAU - Mei, Zhigang
AU  - Mei Z
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
FAU - Wang, Kexiong
AU  - Wang K
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
FAU - Wu, Chenxi
AU  - Wu C
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
FAU - Wu, Jianhong
AU  - Wu J
AD  - Wuhan Institute for Drug and Medical Device Control, Wuhan 430075, China. 
      Electronic address: wujianhong8212@163.com.
FAU - Zheng, Jinsong
AU  - Zheng J
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China. 
      Electronic address: zhengjinsong@ihb.ac.cn.
FAU - Lam, Paul K S
AU  - Lam PKS
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat 
      Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
FAU - Wang, Ding
AU  - Wang D
AD  - Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191231
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - China
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls
MH  - Porpoises
MH  - Rivers/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
OT  - Hexachlorocyclohexane
OT  - Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
OT  - Polychlorinated biphenyl
OT  - Risk assessment
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2020/01/11 06:00
MHDA- 2020/04/09 06:00
CRDT- 2020/01/11 06:00
PHST- 2019/11/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/12/29 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/12/30 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/01/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/04/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/01/11 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(19)36442-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136446 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2020 Mar 25;710:136446. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136446. 
      Epub 2019 Dec 31.