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BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 5, Pages 591-596Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00128-011-0394-9
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Recombinant receptor-reporter gene bioassay; High-throughput luminescent umu test; Yarra River; Victoria; Australia
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- Victorian Water Trust [33V-4000]
- Department of Primary Industries [08160, 06889]
- Centre for Aquatic Pollution, Identification and Management (CA-PIM) at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne Water
- Australian Research Council [DP0343410]
- Australian Research Council [DP0343410] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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A pilot study was initiated to provide the first information on the recombinant receptor-reporter gene bioassay (hormonal) activity of freshwaters in Victoria. The project involved the collection of water samples from six stations on the main stem of the Yarra River in and upstream of the city of Melbourne, Australia in April 2008 and April 2009. Samples were prepared for measurement of sample toxicity using a modified photobacterium test, genotoxicity using a high-throughput luminescent umu test method, and human and medaka estrogen receptor (hER alpha and medER alpha), retinoic acid receptor (RAR), aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and thyroid receptor (TR) assay activity using the relevant yeast-based bioassays. Most samples were only weakly or moderately toxic, with no relationship observed to location along the river. The data for 2008 suggests that at that time the Yarra River samples contained few compounds that were, in and of themselves, genotoxic. No estrogenic or thyroid, and <1 ng/L retinoic acid receptor activity was observed. AhR activity increased with progressed downstream. AhR activity was higher in April 2009 than at the same time in 2008, perhaps as a result of extensive bush fires in the catchment in the months immediately prior to sampling. About 24% of the total AhR activity observed was associated with suspended solids.
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