Ashauer, Roman orcid.org/0000-0002-9579-8793, O’Connor, Isabel and Escher, Beate I. (2017) Toxic Mixtures in Time—The Sequence Makes the Poison. Environmental Science and Technology. pp. 3084-3092. ISSN 1520-5851
Abstract
“The dose makes the poison”. This principle assumes that once a chemical is cleared out of the organism (toxicokinetic recovery), it no longer has any effect. However, it overlooks the other process of re-establishing homeostasis, toxicodynamic recovery, which can be fast or slow depending on the chemical. Therefore, when organisms are exposed to two toxicants in sequence, the toxicity can differ if their order is reversed. We test this hypothesis with the freshwater crustacean Gammarus pulex and four toxicants that act on different targets (diazinon, propiconazole, 4,6-dinitro-o-cresol, 4-nitrobenzyl chloride). We found clearly different toxicity when the exposure order of two toxicants was reversed, while maintaining the same dose. Slow toxicodynamic recovery caused carry-over toxicity in subsequent exposures, thereby resulting in a sequence effect–but only when toxicodynamic recovery was slow relative to the interval between exposures. This suggests that carry-over toxicity is a useful proxy for organism fitness and that risk assessment methods should be revised as they currently could underestimate risk. We provide the first evidence that carry-over toxicity occurs among chemicals acting on different targets and when exposure is several days apart. It is therefore not only the dose that makes the poison but also the exposure sequence.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | ACS AuthorChoice - This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2017 16:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:37 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b06163 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1021/acs.est.6b06163 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112935 |
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