Accumulation, tissue distribution and elimination of 203HgCl2 and CH3 203HgCl in the tissues of the American oyster Crassostrea virginica
Tóm tắt
Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) were exposed for 3 days to mercury-203 labeled HgCl2 or CH3HgCl added directly to artificial seawater or added preconcentrated on the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. The concentration of mercury in 5 tissues was measured for 45 days after mercury was removed from the ambient water. At the beginning of the depuration period, the highest concentrations of mercury in tissues were attained in: gill>digestive system>mantle>gonad>muscle in oysters exposed to water containing mercury; and in digestive system>gill>mantle> gonad>muscle in oysters fed labeled algae. This same distribution pattern is seen for both chemical forms of mercury. Although the initial pattern of accumulation was identical for both mercury compounds within each exposure group, the fate of the accumulated mercury was very different after 45-days depuration. In oysters accumulating mercury directly from seawater, inorganic mercury residues rapidly declined in gill and digestive tissue, but were slowly reduced in mantle, gonadal, and muscle tissue. This pattern was duplicated by oysters exposed to methyl mercuric chloride in seawater except that gonadal and muscle residues greatly increased during depuration. In oysters ingesting labeled P. tricornutum cells, mercuric chloride and methyl mercuric chloride residues rapidly declined in gill and digestive tissue, remained constant in the mantle, but sharply increased in gonadal and muscle tissue during depuration.
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