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Whales, Pilot

 
 
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Anatomical context of Whales, Pilot

  • A cohort of 1022 consecutive singleton births was generated during 1986-1987 in the Faroe Islands. Increased methylmercury exposure from maternal consumption of pilot whale meat was indicated by mercury concentrations in cord blood and maternal hair [7].
  • Hepatocyte vacuolation and autolytic changes in the liver of pilot whales, Globicephala melas, stranded on Cape Cod, MA, USA [8].
  • Beluga liver microsomes oxidized 3,3',4,4'-TCB at rates averaging 21 and 5 pmol/min per mg for males and females, respectively, while pilot whale samples oxidized this congener at 0.3 pmol/min per mg or less [9].
  • OBJECTIVES: Autometallography (AMG) was applied for tracing mercury in long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) harvested in the Faroe Islands. RESULTS: Ample mercury accumulation was found in kidney tubules, in contrast to the largely unstained glomeruli [10].
 

Associations of Whales, Pilot with chemical compounds

  • Growth-related changes in testicular mass and plasma testosterone concentrations in long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas [11].
  • In the years 1980 and 1981 the cadmium intake from consuming pilot whale foods exceeded the PTWI by a factor of 2 [12].
  • Liver, muscle and blubber tissues of two short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) and two pygmy sperm whales(Kogia breviceps) stranded on the coast of New Caledonia have been analysed for 12 trace elements (Al, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu. Fe, organic and total Hg, Mn, Ni, Se, V, and Zn) [13].
  • PCB concentrations found in fulmar egg and muscle are in the same range as seen in the pilot whale, i.e. 590-5700 ng/gl.w. for CB-153 [14].
  • Total DDT and PCB concentrations were determined in blubber of 130 long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas (100 females and 30 males) from the Faroe Islands (northern north-east Atlantic) [15].
 

Gene context of Whales, Pilot

  • Concentrations of organochlorine (OC) contaminants (e.g., PCB congeners, pesticides, DDTs) were measured in tissue samples from pilot whales that stranded in 1986 and 1990 along the Massachusetts coast [16].
  • Published estimates of pilot whale tissue consumption are used to evaluate dietary organochlorine intake in relation to established national and international guidelines and clinical studies conducted in the North American Great Lakes [17].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Whales, Pilot

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  11. Growth-related changes in testicular mass and plasma testosterone concentrations in long-finned pilot whales, Globicephala melas. Desportes, G., Saboureau, M., Lacroix, A. J. Reprod. Fertil. (1994) [Pubmed]
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  14. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and traditional organochlorine pollutants in fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) from the Faroe Islands. Fängström, B., Athanasiadou, M., Athanassiadis, I., Bignert, A., Grandjean, P., Weihe, P., Bergman, A. Chemosphere (2005) [Pubmed]
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