Cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of water and sediment samples from gypsum mining area in channel catfish ovary (CCO) cells

Ternjej, Ivančica; Srček, Višnja Gaurina; Mihaljević, Zlatko; Kopjar, Nevenka

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2013.09.014

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“…Copper in MWE and seawater reached levels of land/surface water category 5 (toxic levels), and seawater category 2 (sea affected by pollution from land). Chromium in MWE samples (up to 34.5 µg/L, land water category 5) exceeded the maximum allowed Cr according to Croatian law [48], and it was slightly above a Dutch intervention value (30.0 µg/L) for Cr(III) in groundwater [49]. This could be related to the spatial proximity of Krapan soil polluted with chromium (max Cr value in Table 2), explained in the context of a possible hazardous disposal of chemicals from chrome plate factory into the Krapan stream ( Figure 1D).…”

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Selenium, Sulphur, Trace Metal, and BTEX Levels in Soil, Water, and Lettuce from the Croatian Raša Bay Contaminated by Superhigh-Organic-Sulphur Coal

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This paper elaborates soil, water, and lettuce contamination status with respect to selenium, sulphur, trace metals, and BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes) in a coal-based area (Raša Bay, Adriatic Sea, Croatia). A local coal-fired power plant polluted soil with S, Se, Cd, and PAHs due to the combustion of domestic superhigh-organic-sulphur coal. The locality is dotted with waste from coal mining/separation, coal combustion, former metal factories, untreated municipal and coal mine effluents, along with various harbour activities, which contribute to environmental contamination. The methodology involved ICP-MS and GC-MS for the measurement of trace elements and BTEX, respectively, while soil sulphur was determined with Eschka’s mixture. The max values of the analysed trace elements in soil (mg/kg) are reported: Hg 1.14, Cd 3.29, V 624, Se 10.3, Pb 872, Cr 1860, Zn 6580, Cu 1850, and U 25.2. According to ecological indices, these values fall into the category of an extremely high level of soil pollution. Elevated total Se values in surface water are ascribed to leaching of seleniferous coal, ash, and coal-polluted soil. Levels of BTEX in water samples were very low (0–0.83 µg/L). The data provide basic information on the inorganic and organic contamination status of the Raša Bay area.

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Selenium, Sulphur, Trace Metal, and BTEX Levels in Soil, Water, and Lettuce from the Croatian Raša Bay Contaminated by Superhigh-Organic-Sulphur Coal

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“…The application of cell lines in the evaluation of toxicity can be of paramount importance in elucidating intracellular, molecular, or physiological mechanism induced by different xenobiotics. In aquatic toxicology, cytotoxicity tests with the continuous fish cell lines have been used as a tool for toxicity ranking of anthropogenic chemicals, compound mixtures and environmental samples (Fent, 2001;Ternjej et al 2013). Herewith, several water samples selected from the Raša area were tested for the fish RTG-2 cells viability (see Figure 5).…”

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“…Bioassays have proven very attractive in this regard. By examining the bioaccumulation of pollutants and their interactions, it is possible to get an insight into the cytotoxic and genotoxic potential of an environmental compartment (water, soil and sediment) affecting living organisms (Sasmaz et al, 2019;Ternjej et al, 2013). It has been shown that interactions of coal and coal combustion by-products with biological systems can induce cytotoxic, phytotoxic, and genotoxic effects in several organisms (Awoyemi and Dzantor, 2017;Medunić et al, 2016;Nordin et al, 2018;Radić et al, 2018).…”

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Raša coal, mined on the Istrian Peninsula (NW Croatia) for nearly 400 years up to 1999, is notable for having superhigh organic sulfur, and high levels of selenium, uranium, vanadium, and molybdenum. Selenium is the poison responsible for the widespread loss of cattle and sheep. It is essential to human health in trace amounts, but higher concentrations can be harmful. An estimated 4.4Mt. of coal remains underground within marine carbonate rocks. The study area belongs to the coastal karst of the Adriatic Sea. Several abandoned coalmine discharges (CMDs) were released into local streams and the Raša Bay for decades. Therefore, the water quality of a natural karst spring (Fonte Gaja), the Raša Bay seawater, municipal wastewater, and the Raša CMDs were investigated, focusing on sulfur, selected metal(loid)s (major, minor, and trace), radioactivity, and cytotoxicity. The Fonte Gaja spring water, unrelated to the Raša CMD, served as a reference. Its values of Se, U, V, and Mo (µg/L) were as follows: 1.09, 0.75, 1.37, and 2.04, respectively. However, the respective levels (µg/L) were increased in the rest of the water samples as follows: 10.9, 10.8, 4.60, and 33.1. Water sulfate levels were low though. Total beta activities of the CMDs and Raša Bay water were 235 and 1320 Bq/m 3 , respectively, below the guideline level of 2000 Bq/m 3. The cytotoxicity of water samples on the RTG-2 fish cells was not statistically significant. The large volumes of water involved mean the transport of rather large amounts of Se and U, and their deposition in the Adriatic Sea. Due to the complexity of the karst hydrogeology, knowledge of Se and U circulation patterns is highly needed.

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“…CCO cells used in this study have proven to be a good in vitro test-system in cytotoxicity studies of metals (Tan et al, 2008), as well as in our previous reports on cytotoxicity of estrogens (Radošević et al, 2011), environmental samples (Ternjej et al, 2013), and imidazolium ionic liquids (Radošević et al, 2013). In the present work we have evaluated the cytotoxicity towards CCO cells of several imidazolium ILs with functionalized and unsaturated side groups.…”

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Cytotoxicity towards CCO cells of imidazolium ionic liquids with functionalized side chains: Preliminary QSTR modeling using regression and classification based approaches

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Cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of water and sediment samples from gypsum mining area in channel catfish ovary (CCO) cells

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Selenium, Sulphur, Trace Metal, and BTEX Levels in Soil, Water, and Lettuce from the Croatian Raša Bay Contaminated by Superhigh-Organic-Sulphur Coal

Selenium, Sulphur, Trace Metal, and BTEX Levels in Soil, Water, and Lettuce from the Croatian Raša Bay Contaminated by Superhigh-Organic-Sulphur Coal

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Cytotoxicity towards CCO cells of imidazolium ionic liquids with functionalized side chains: Preliminary QSTR modeling using regression and classification based approaches

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