Predicting the Relative Bioavailability of DDT and Its Metabolites in Historically Contaminated Soils Using a Tenax-Improved Physiologically Based Extraction Test (TI-PBET)
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- 作者：Chao Li ; Hongjie Sun ; Albert L. Juhasz ; Xinyi Cui ; Lena Q. Ma
- 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：February 2, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：50
- 期：3
- 页码：1118-1125
- 全文大小：385K
- ISSN：1520-5851
文摘
Due to their static nature, physiologically based in vitro assays often fail to provide sufficient sorption capacity for hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs). The addition of a sorption sink to in vitro intestinal solution has the potential to mimic dynamic intestinal uptake for HOCs, thereby increasing their desorption from soil. However, the effectiveness of sorption sinks for improving in vitro assays needs to be compared with in vivo data. In this study, Tenax was added as a sorption sink into the physiologically based extraction test (PBET), while DDT and its metabolites (DDTr) were investigated as typical HOCs. Tenax added at 0.01–0.2 g to the PBET intestinal solution sorbed ～100% of DDTr in 6.3–19 min, indicating its ability as an effective sorption sink. DDTr bioaccessibility in six contaminated soils using Tenax-improved PBET (TI-PBET; 27–56%) was 3.4–22 fold greater than results using the PBET (1.2–15%). In vivo DDTr relative bioavailability (RBA) was measured using a mouse adipose model with values of 17.9–65.4%. The inclusion of Tenax into PBET improved the in vivo-in vitro correlation from r2 = 0.36 (slope = 2.1 for PBET) to r2 = 0.62 (slope = 1.2 for TI-PBET), illustrating that the inclusion of Tenax as a sorption sink improved the in vitro prediction of DDTr RBA in contaminated soils.