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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 188, Issue -, Pages 37-44Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.01.001
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As speciation; HPLC-ICP-MS; Bioaccessibility; Daily intakes of inorganic As
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- Special Equipment Grant [SEG HKBU09]
- Research Grant Council of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong [HKBU260209]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China/Research Grants Council [NSFC/RGC N_HKBU210/11]
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Speciation of inorganic trivalent arsenicals (iAs(III)), inorganic pentavalent arsenicals (iAs(V)), monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) in total arsenic (As) content and its bioaccessible fractions contained in road dust, household air-conditioning (AC) filter dust and PM2.5 was investigated. Inorganic As, especially iAs(V), was observed as the dominant species. Physiologically based extraction test (PBET), an in-vitro gastrointestinal method, was used to estimate the oral As bioaccessibility in coarse particles and the species present in the oral bioaccessible fraction. A composite lung simulating serum was used to mimic the pulmonary condition to extract the respiratory bioaccessible As and its species in PM2.5. Reduction of iAs(V) to iAs(III) occurred in both in-vitro gastrointestinal and lung simulating extraction models. The inorganic As species was the exclusive species for absorption through ingestion and inhalation of atmospheric particles, which was an important exposure route to inorganic As, in addition to drinking water and food consumption. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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