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AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 265-270Publisher
NATL INQUIRY SERVICES CENTRE PTY LTD
DOI: 10.2989/16085914.2012.703127
Keywords
4-chlorophenol; biochemical marker; p-phenylene diamine
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KF-2008-23]
- Harbin Science and Technology Innovation Talents Special Foundation [2010RFQXS055]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [20090450942]
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Chironomids are a globally distributed family of insects that can serve as biological indicators of environmental pollution. Substituted benzenes are a group of serious environmental pollutants and severely threaten biological and human health. In order to investigate potential stress biomarkers of substituted benzenes, the effects of 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine on superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione S-transferase (GST), carboxylesterase (CarE), acid phosphatase (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities of 4th-instar larval Propsilocerus akamusi were investigated. During 48 h exposure to 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine, the larval CAT, SOD, GST and CarE activities responded to 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine in a concentration- and time-dependent way. The ACP and ALP activities of larval P. akamusi responded slowly to 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine, and only the ALP activities were inhibited significantly under the exposure to p-phenylene diamine for 6 and 24 h. These results suggest that CAT, SOD, GST and CarE activities of chironomids can be used as potential stress biomarkers to monitor 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine pollution.
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