title: Tributyltin in blood of marine fish collected from a coastal area of northern Kyushu, Japan.
abstract: We investigated levels of the pollutant tributyltin (TBT) in blood of pufferfishes (six species), Japanese sea perch, red sea bream, Japanese common goby, Japanese flounder, rockfish, conger eel, and sea mullet collected off the coast of northern Kyushu, Japan. We found considerable levels of TBT (1.4-190 ng/mL) accumulated in the blood of these fish. Blood TBT concentrations were 1.3-22.5 times liver concentrations and 4.9-78 times muscle concentrations, except in conger eel and mullet. We detected TBT (16-111 ng/mL-blood) in the plasma of the fine-patterned puffer (Takifugupoecilonotus) year-round, without any apparent seasonal trend. These results suggest that fish inhabiting coastal areas of Kyushu, Japan, continue to be contaminated with TBT.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.
authors.forename: Shizuho
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miki
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Yumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oba
authors.forename: Hina
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Satone
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: Yohei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimasaki
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Onikura
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Arakawa
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oshima
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D003625:Data Collection; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000097:blood*; D005399:Fishes / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D007564:Japan; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D012621:Seasons; D013045:Species Specificity; D014220:Trialkyltin Compounds / Q000097:blood* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D014220:Trialkyltin Compounds; C011559:tributyltin