Chlordane induced neurotoxicosis in urban and suburban Detroit, Michigan striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis)
John Buchweitz,
Rachel Sheffler,
Birgit Puschner
et al.
Abstract:Despite the ban of technical chlordane, contamination from this persistent organic pollutant threatens wildlife and human health nearly forty years since its last application. In this study, eight of seventeen skunks displaying illness and neurologic signs had brain tissue concentrations of combined oxychlordane, heptachlor epoxide, and trans-nonachlor exceeding a 1,000 ng/g wet weight diagnostic threshold for toxicosis. Liver tissue concentrations were ten-fold greater than brain when measured on a lipid weig… Show more
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