Enhanced antibody responses in mink (Mustela vison) exposed to dietary bleached-kraft pulp mill effluent

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1166-1170

  Smits, Judit E G ^a   Haines, Deborah M ^a   Blakley, Barry R ^a   Wobeser, Gary A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibody production; Bleached kraft mill effluent; Humoral immunity; Immunotoxicity; Mink

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; FEMALE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MINK; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULP MILL;

MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 0029792773     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620150722     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Wobeser, G., N.O. Neilsen and H.B. Schiefer. 1976. Mercury and mink II. Experimental methyl mercury intoxication. Can. J. Comp. Med. 40:34-44.
2. Bleavins, M.R., R.J. Aulerich and R.K. Ringer. 1980. Polychlorinated biphenyls (Aroclor 1016 and 1242): Effect on survival and reproduction in mink and ferrets. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 9:627-635.
3. Kupfer, D. and W.H. Bulger. 1982. Estrogenic action of chlorinated hydrocarbons. In J.E. Chambers and Y.D. Yarbrough, eds., Effects of Chronic Exposure to Pesticides on Animal Systems. Raven, New York, NY, USA, pp. 121-146.
4. Hochstein, J.R., R.J. Aulerich and S.J. Bursian. 1988. Acute toxicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin to mink. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 17:33-37.
5. Andersson, T., L. Förlin, J. Härdig and Å. Larsson. 1988. Physiological disturbances in fish living in coastal water polluted with bleached kraft pulp mill effluents. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 45: 1525-1536.
6. Servizi, J.A., R.W. Gordon, D.W. Martens, W.L. Lockhart, D.A. Metner, I.H. Rogers, J.R. McBride and R.J. Norstrom. 1993. Effects of biotreated bleached kraft mill effluent on fingerling chinook salmon (Onchorynchus tshawytscha). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 50:846-857.
7. Schroeder, S. and K. Fresh. 1992. Results of the Gray's Harbor coho survival investigations, 1987-1990. Technical Report 118. State of Washington Department of Fisheries, Olympia, WA, USA.
8. Kloepper-Sams, P.J., S.M. Swanson, T. Marchant, R. Schryer and J.W. Owens. 1994. Exposure of fish to biologically treated bleached-kraft effluent: 1. Biochemical, physiological and pathological assessment of Rocky Mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) and longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus). Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 13:1469-1482.
9. Haley, R.K., T.J. Hall and T.M. Bousquet. 1995. Effects of biologically treated bleached-kraft mill effluent before and after mill conversion to increased chlorine dioxide substitution: Results of an experimental streams study. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 14:287-298.
10. Lodmell, D.L., R.K. Bergman, W.J. Hadlow and J.J. Munoz. 1971. Cellular and humoral antibody response of normal pastel and sapphire mink to goat erythrocytes. Infect. Immun. 3:221-227.
11. Coe, J.E. and W.J. Hadlow. 1972. Studies on immunoglobulins of mink: Definition of IgG, IgA and IgM. J. Immunol. 108:530-537.
12. Rivera, E., M. Jackert-Jernberger, T. Mejerland and K.A. Karlsson. 1994. Evaluation of protein A and protein G as indicator system in an ELISA for detecting antibodies in mink to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Vet. Microbiol. 42:265-271.
13. Smits, J.E.G., G.A. Wobeser and H.B. Schiefer. 1995. Physiological, reproductive, and pathological effects of dietary bleached pulp mill effluent on mink. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 14:2095-2105.
14. Kingsbury, D.L. and N.C. Rawlings. 1993. Effect of exposure to a boar on circulating concentrations of LH, FSH, cortisol and oestradiole in prepubertal gilts. J. Reprod. Fertil. 98:245-250.
15. National Research Council. 1982. Nutrient requirements of mink and foxes. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, USA.
16. Jubb, K.V.F. and C.R. Huxtable. 1993. The nervous system. In K.V.F. Jubb, P.C. Kennedy and N. Palmer, eds., Pathology of Domestic Animals, 4th ed., Vol. 1. Academic, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 267-440.
17. Bloom, B.R. and P.E.M. Fine. 1994. The BCG experience: Implications for future vaccines against tuberculosis. In B.R. Bloom, ed., Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Protection, and Control. American Society of Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 531-558.
18. Bradford, M. 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72:248-254.
19. Burnette, W.N. 1981. Western blotting: Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels to unmodified nitrocellulose and radiographic detection with antibody and radioiodinated protein A. Anal. Biochem. 112:195-203.
20. β subsets of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules. Infect. Immun. 58:1461-1470.
21. Coligan, J.E., A.M. Kruisbeek, D.H. Margulies, E.M. Shevach and W. Strober, eds. 1994. Current Protocols in Immunology, Vol. 1. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, USA, pp. 2.1.2.-2.1.6.
22. Thoen, C.O. and A.G. Karlson. 1991. Tuberculosis. In B.W. Calnek, ed., Diseases of Poultry. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, USA, pp. 172-185.
23. Thoen, C.O. and E.M. Himes. 1981. Tuberculosis. In J.W. Davis, L.H. Karstad and D.O. Trainer, eds., Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA, USA, pp. 263-274.
24. Tizard, I. 1992. Secondary immunological defects. In I. Tizard, ed., Veterinary Immunology: An Introduction. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 434-446.
25. Hornshaw, T.C., R.J. Aulerich and H.E. Johnson. 1983. Feeding Great Lakes fish to mink: Effects on mink and accumulation and elimination of PCBs by mink. J. Toxicol Environ. Health 11:933-946.
26. Bretscher, P.A. 1981. Significance and mechanisms of cellular regulation of the immune response. Fed. Proc. 40:1473-1478.
27. Clerici, M. and G.M. Shearer. 1994. The Th1-Th2 hypothesis of HIV infection: New insights. Immunol. Today 15:575-581.
28. Smits, J.E.G., B.R. Blakley and G.A. Wobeser. 1996. Immunotoxicity studies in mink (Mustela vison) chronically exposed to dietary bleached kraft pulp mill effluent. J. Wildl. Dis. 32:199-208.
29. Valtonen, M. 1989. Hormones. In A. Brandt, ed., Haematology and Clinical Chemistry of Fur Animals - A Current Treatise. Scientifur, Tjele, Denmark, pp. 86-94.
30. Maule, A.G., R.A. Tripp, S.L. Kaattari and C.B. Shreck. 1989. Stress alters immune function and disease resistance in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). J. Endocrinol. 120:135-142.
31. Thoen, C.O., E.M. Himes and R. Harrington. 1981. Application of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detecting antibodies in sera of feral swine naturally exposed to Mycobacterium bovis. Proceedings, 85th Annual Meeting, United States Animal Health Association, St. Louis, MO, USA, pp. 500-504.
32. Ross, P.S., B. Pohajdak, W.D. Bowen and R.F. Addison. 1993. Immune function in free-ranging harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) mothers and their pups during lactation. J. Wildl. Dis. 29:21-29.
33. Malvano, R., A. Boniolo, M. Dovis and M. Zannino. 1982. ELISA for antibody measurement: Aspects related to data expression. J. Immunol. Methods 48:51-60.