Effects of petroleum on adrenocortical activity and on hepatic naphthalene-metabolizing activity in mallard ducks
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Abstract
Unstressed mallard ducks (Anas platyrhychos), given uncontaminated food and maintained on a short photoperiod, show two daily maxima in plasma corticosterone concentration ([B]); one occurring early in the light phase and a second just before the onset of darkness. After one week of exposure to food containing 3% (v/w) South Louisiana crude oil, plasma [B] were significantly lowered throughout the day. Similar abrupt declines in plasma [B] also occurred during the first 10 days of exposure to food containing 1% and 0.5% crude oil. Although the plasma [B] in birds consuming food contaminated with 0.5% crude oil increased between 10 and 50 days of exposure, the concentration after 50 days was still lower than normal. During the same interval, normal plasma [B] were restored in birds consuming food containing 1% and 3% crude oil. Significant increases occurred in the naphthalene-metabolizing properties of hepatic microsomes prepared from birds acutely exposed to all levels of petroleum-contaminated food and elevated levels were sustained throughout the first 50 days of exposure. Birds given food containing 3% crude oil for more than 50 days, however, showed steady declines in hepatic naphthalene-metabolizing activity. After 500 days, the activity was similar to that found in contemporaneous controls. During the same interval, the plasma [B] increased until the levels were higher than normal after 500 days of exposure; at this time, an inverse relationship, similar to that seen during the first week of exposure to contaminated food, was once more established between plasma [B] and the concomitant hepatic naphthalene-metabolizing activity.
Publication type | Article |
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Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Title | Effects of petroleum on adrenocortical activity and on hepatic naphthalene-metabolizing activity in mallard ducks |
Series title | Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology |
DOI | 10.1007/BF01054860 |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 6 |
Year Published | 1981 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Springer |
Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
Description | 13 p. |
First page | 765 |
Last page | 777 |
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