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Vanadium contamination and the relation between vanadium and other elements in wild birds
M Mochizuki1, F Ueda, S Sasaki
1Department of Veterinary Public Health, Nippon Veterinary and Animal Science University, 1-7-1 Kyonan, Musashino Tokyo, 180-0023 Japan. nvau-vph@interlink.or.jp
Abstract:
There is little information on vanadium (V) contamination in wildlife. In the present study, the mean V contents in liver and kidney from 41 wild Japanese water birds were less than 3.69 and 8.11 microg/g dry wt, respectively. The V contents in the liver and kidney of the spotbill duck were more than two times higher than those of other species in Japan. Spotbill ducks obtained in a residential district had a strong correlation between the V contents in the kidneys and those in the livers (R=0.924), and also between V and Ti, Cd, and Li contents in the liver (R>0.8). These results suggest that V accumulation in wild birds reflects the degree of environmental contamination.
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