Mitogen induced proliferative responses of lymphocytes from spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated environments
- Virginia Institute of Marine Science, School of Marine Science, College of William Mary, Gloucester Point (United States)
The marine fish spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, was collected from five sites in the lower Chesapeake Bay system representing a gradient of sediment polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations. The proliferative responses to mitogens by anterior kidney lymphocytes were assessed using (3H)-thymidine uptake by replicating DNA. The data show two different mitogen-dependent lymphocytic responses as the sediment PAH levels increase at the sampling sites; a suppression of the response to the T cell mitogens, concanavalin A (Con A) and phytohemagglutinin, and a sharp augmentation of the response to B cell mitogen, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), as well as to poke weed mitogen and peanut agglutinin. The magnitude of the lymphoproliferative responses correlated strongly with the total sediment PAH concentrations (r2 greater than 0.8). A similar correlation was also observed with 15 selected individual PAH compounds regardless of their molecular weights. By maintaining the fish in clean York River water for up to 24 weeks, it was possible to reverse the augmented proliferative responses to LPS of fish from all sampling sites and to increase the reduced responses to Con A, in fish from three sites, and partially in two sites where sediments were highly contaminated with PAH. These results suggest that the proliferative responses of fish lymphocytes to mitogens may be a potentially sensitive biomarker of exposure to, and effects of xenobiotics.
- OSTI ID:
- 6101377
- Journal Information:
- Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology; (United States), Vol. 13:3; ISSN 0892-3973
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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FISHES
SENSITIVITY
LYMPHOCYTES
CELL PROLIFERATION
POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
WATER POLLUTION
BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
CHESAPEAKE BAY
CONCANAVALIN A
LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES
MITOGENS
PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ
THYMIDINE
TRACER TECHNIQUES
TRITIUM COMPOUNDS
AGGLUTININS
ANIMAL CELLS
ANIMALS
ANTIBODIES
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
AROMATICS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
AZINES
BAYS
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BLOOD
BLOOD CELLS
BODY FLUIDS
CARBOHYDRATES
COASTAL WATERS
CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS
HEMAGGLUTININS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS
LECTINS
LEUKOCYTES
LIPIDS
MATERIALS
MUCOPROTEINS
NUCLEOSIDES
NUCLEOTIDES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
POLYSACCHARIDES
PROTEINS
PYRIMIDINES
RIBOSIDES
SACCHARIDES
SEAS
SOMATIC CELLS
SURFACE WATERS
VERTEBRATES
540320* - Environment
Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)
560300 - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology
550501 - Metabolism- Tracer Techniques