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21510015

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-4-19
pubmed:abstractText
With their widespread applications in industry, agriculture and many other fields, more and more rare earth elements (REEs) are getting into the environment, especially the aquatic systems. Therefore, understanding the aquatic ecotoxicity of REEs has become more and more important. In the present work, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) was used as a test organism and life-cycle endpoints were chosen along with elemental assay to evaluate the aquatic toxicity of lanthanum (La), a representative of REEs. The results show La³+ had significant adverse effects on the growth and reproduction of worms above a concentration of 10 ?mol L?¹. The elemental mapping by microbeam synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence (?-SRXRF) illustrated how La treatment disturbed the metals distribution in the whole body of a single tiny nematode at lower levels. Our results suggested that the high-level REEs in some polluted water bodies would lead to an aquatic ecological crisis. The assessment we performed in the present work could be developed as a standardized test design for aquatic toxicological research.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1756-591X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
806-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Ecotoxicological assessment of lanthanum with Caenorhabditis elegans in liquid medium.
pubmed:affiliation
CAS Key Laboratory of Nuclear Analytical Techniques, CAS Key Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't