PMID: 16519326Mar 8, 2006Paper

Assessment of the toxicity of mixtures of copper, 9,10-phenanthrenequinone, and phenanthrene to Daphnia magna: evidence for a reactive oxygen mechanism

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Fangli XieB M Greenberg

Abstract

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives are ubiquitous environmental contaminants. They are commonly present in complex mixtures with other contaminants, such as metals. The toxicities of phenanthrene (PHE) and 9,10-phenanthrenequinone (PHQ) with or without Cu were determined using Daphnia magna. Copper was the most toxic among the three chemicals tested, followed by PHQ and then PHE, with 48-h median effective concentrations (EC50s) of 0.96, 1.72, and 5.33 microM, respectively. Copper at 0.31 microM, or approximately the 5% effective concentration, decreased the EC50 of PHQ from 1.72 to 0.28 microM. Likewise, PHQ at 1.2 microM, or approximately the 10% effective concentration, significantly lowered the EC50 of Cu from 0.96 to 0.30 microM. This synergistic effect was not observed, however, in mixtures of Cu and PHE based on the response addition model. Assimilation of Cu wasfound to be similar with or without PHQ at increasing external concentrations of Cu, indicating that the increased toxicity of their mixtures is physiologically based. The ability of Cu plus PHQ to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) was measured as well. Copper alone caused elevated ROS levels at a low concentration (0.63 microM). With PHQ...Continue Reading

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