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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
Volume 14, 1984 - Issue 8
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Original Article

Determination of metabolites of xenobiotics in the bile of fish from polluted waterways

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Pages 633-646 | Received 09 Aug 1983, Published online: 30 Sep 2009
 

Abstract

1. An h.p.l.c.-fluorescence technique was used to estimate relative concentrations of metabolites of xenobiotics in bile of 103 English sole (Parophrys vetulus) from both polluted and minimally polluted (reference) sites in Puget Sound, WA.

2. Fish from polluted sites had concentrations of xenobiotics in bile with naphthalene-, phenanthrene- and benzo[a]pyrene-like fluorescence that averaged 9, 14 and 19 times, respectively, those of fish from reference sites.

3. Within a polluted site, fish with liver lesions had significantly higher bile concentrations of xenobiotics with benzo[a]pyrene-like fluorescence than did fish without liver lesions.

4. Individual metabolites of fluorene, phenanthrene, anthracene, biphenyl and dimethylnaphthalene were determined by g.I.e.-mass spectrometry in extracts of hydro-Is sed bile of three English sole from polluted waterways; concentrations ranged from 90 to 19000 ng/g, wet wt. Other xenobiotics were tentatively identified, but not quantified.

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