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Persistent organic pollutant burden, experimental POP exposure, and tissue properties affect metabolic profiles of blubber from gray seal pups

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20/11/2018
Author
Robinson, Kelly J.
Hall, Ailsa J.
Debier, Cathy
Eppe, Gauthier
Thomé, Jean Pierre
Bennett, Kimberley A.
Keywords
Dioxin-like PCBS
Glucose uptake
Lipolysis
Lactate production
Blubber depth
Energetic state
Environmental contamination
Fasting
Feeding
QH301 Biology
Chemistry(all)
Environmental Chemistry
NDAS
NERC
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Abstract
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic, ubiquitous, resist breakdown, bioaccumulate in living tissue, and biomagnify in food webs. POPs can also alter energy balance in humans and wildlife. Marine mammals experience high POP concentrations, but consequences for their tissue metabolic characteristics are unknown. We used blubber explants from wild, gray seal (Halichoerus grypus) pups to examine impacts of intrinsic tissue POP burden and acute experimental POP exposure on adipose metabolic characteristics. Glucose use, lactate production, and lipolytic rate differed between matched inner and outer blubber explants from the same individuals and between feeding and natural fasting. Glucose use decreased with blubber dioxin-like PCBs (DL-PCB) and increased with acute experimental POP exposure. Lactate production increased with DL-PCBs during feeding, but decreased with DL-PCBs during fasting. Lipolytic rate increased with blubber dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDX) in fasting animals, but declined with DDX when animals were feeding. Our data show that POP burdens are high enough in seal pups to alter adipose function early in life, when fat deposition and mobilization are vital. Such POP-induced alterations to adipose metabolic properties may significantly alter energy balance regulation in marine top predators, with the potential for long-term impacts on fitness and survival.
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Robinson , K J , Hall , A J , Debier , C , Eppe , G , Thomé , J P & Bennett , K A 2018 , ' Persistent organic pollutant burden, experimental POP exposure, and tissue properties affect metabolic profiles of blubber from gray seal pups ' , Environmental Science and Technology , vol. 52 , no. 22 , pp. 13523-13534 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04240
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Environmental Science and Technology
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04240
ISSN
0013-936X
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04240
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The long term program of research on grey seals at the Isle of May was funded by the SMRU national capability grant (SMRU 1001). K.A.B. was funded by NERC grant NE/M013723/1 and A.J.H. and K.J.R. were funded by NE/M01357X/1 for this project.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18712

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