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ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171433
Keywords
Caretta caretta; Corexit 9500A; crude oil; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; small volume samples; whole blood
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- OiledWildlife Care Network
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We used proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-1-NMR) to evaluate metabolic impacts of environmentally relevant crude oil and Corexit exposures on the physiology of hatchling loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Sample extraction and data acquisition methods for very small volume whole blood samples and sources of variation between individual hatchlings were assessed. Sixteen unclotted, whole blood samples were obtained from 7-day-old hatchlings after a 4-day cutaneous exposure to either control seawater, crude oil, Corexit 9500A or a combination of crude oil and Corexit 9500A. After extraction, one- and two-dimensional H-1-NMR spectra of the samples were obtained, and 17 metabolites were identified and confirmed in the whole blood spectra. Variation among samples due to the concentrations of metabolites 3-hydroxybutyrate, lactate, trimethylamine oxide and propylene glycol did not statistically correlate with treatment group. However, the characterization of the hatchling loggerhead whole blood metabolome provides a foundation for future metabolomic research with sea turtles and a basis for the study of tissues from exposed hatchling sea turtles.
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