(Table 1) Lipid content and organohalogen contaminant concentration in captive sledge dogs (Canis familiaris) and wild female polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Greenland ...

• Main Authors: Verreault, Jonathan, Dietz, Rune, Sonne, Christian, Gebbink, Wouter A, Shahmiri, Soheila, Letcher, Robert J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2008
• Subjects: Event label; Time coverage; Species, common name; Species; Treatment; Sample amount; Sample type; Lipids; Lipids, standard deviation; Hexachlorobenzene; Hexachlorobenzene, standard deviation; Chlordane; Chlordane, standard deviation; Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane; Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, standard deviation; Polychlorinated biphenyl; Polychlorinated biphenyl, standard deviation; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, standard deviation; alpha-Hexabromocyclododecane; Hexabromocyclododecane, standard deviation; Hydroxy-polychlorinated biphenyl; Hydroxy-polychlorinated biphenyl, standard deviation; Hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers; Hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers, standard deviation; Biological sample; International Polar Year 2007-2008 IPY; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; East Greenland; Greenland; International Polar Year; IPY; minke whale; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.841347; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.841347

The limited knowledge and/or the inability to control physiological condition parameters that influence the fate of organohalogen contaminants (OHCs) has been the foremost confounding aspect in monitoring programs and health risk assessments of wild top predators in the Arctic such as the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). In the present comparative study, we used a potential surrogate Canoidea species for the East Greenland polar bear, the captive sledge dog (Canis familiaris), to investigate some factors that may influence the bioaccumulation and biotransformation of major chlorinated and brominated OHCs in adipose tissue and blood (plasma) of control (fed commercial pork fat) and exposed (fed West Greenland minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) blubber) adult female sledge dogs. Furthermore, we compared the patterns and concentrations of OHCs and their known or suggested hydroxylated (OH) metabolites (e.g., OH-PCBs) in sledge dogs with those in adipose tissue and blood (plasma) of East Greenland adult ... : Concentrations per gram wet weight.Sum Chlordane: sum of heptachlor epoxide, oxychlordane, trans-chlordane, cis-chlordane, trans-nonachlor and cis-nonachlor. Sum DDT: sum of p,p'-DDE and p,p'-DDD.Sum PCBs: sum of CB31/28,42,44,49, 52, 56/60,64/41,70/76,74, 87,95/66,97,99,101/90,105,110,118, 128, 138,141,146,149,151,153,158,170/190,172,174,177, 178, 179, 180, 183, 187, 194, 195, 196/203, 200, 202/171/156 and 206. Sum PBDEs: sum of BDE28, 47, 66, 85, 99, 100, 138, 153, 154, 183 and 209. Alpha-HBCD total: Thermal isomerization of beta- and gamma-isomers to alpha-HBCD.Sum OH-PCBs: sum of 4'-OH-CB79, 4-OH-CB97, 4'-OH-CB101/134, 4-OH-CB107/4'-0H-CB108, 2'-OH-CB114, 3-OH-CB118, 4'-OH-CB127, 4'-OH-CB120, 4'-OH-CB130, 3'-OH-CB138,4-OH-CB146,4'-OH-CB159,4-OH-CB162,4-OH-CB163,4'-OH-CB172,4'-OH-CB177,4-OH-CB178, 3'-OH-CB180, 3'-OH-CB182, 3'-OH-CB183, 3'-OH-CB184, 4-OH-CB187, 4-OH-CB193, 4'-OH-CB199, 4'-OH-CB200, 4'-OH-CB201, 4'-OH-CB202, 4,4'-diOH-CB202, 3'-OH-CB203/198 and 4'-OH-CB208.Sum OH-PBDEs: sum of 6'-OH-BDE17, ...