Experimentally determined blood and water flow limitations for hydrophobic compounds using perfused gills of trout
- Utrecht Univ. (Netherlands). Environmental Chemistry Group
- Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Zoophysiology
- NICM, The Hague (Netherlands)
The influence of physiologically relevant water and blood flows on the uptake of a number of hydrophobic compounds was investigated using perfused gills of rainbow trout. For all compounds studied, the uptake rate constants increased with water flow at lower flow and remained constant at higher flow. The uptake rate constants did not change when blood flow decreased at lower flow, while they increased at higher flow. Both water and blood flows thus influence the uptake of hydrophobic chemicals. using these experimental data and allometric relations, it was established that the water flow can limit the uptake of hydrophobic chemicals for fish weighing more than 5 g. The flow of water will not limit uptake in fish < 5 g, irrespective of physiological conditions and oxygen concentration. At low oxygen concentration, which will increase the water flow in large fish, the uptake of hydrophobic chemicals may increase with a factor of 5 or more. Increasing the blood flow may maximally increase the uptake of hydrophobic chemicals two-fold, in small as well as in large fish.
- OSTI ID:
- 197564
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9511137-; ISBN 1-880611-03-1; TRN: IM9612%%338
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) world conference, Vancouver (Canada), 5-9 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Second SETAC world congress (16. annual meeting): Abstract book. Global environmental protection: Science, politics, and common sense; PB: 378 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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