Increased levels of the oxidative stress biomarker 8-iso-prostaglandin F 2α in wastewater associated with tobacco use
Wastewater analysis has been demonstrated to be a complementary approach for assessing the overall patterns of drug use by a population while the full potential of wastewater-based epidemiology has yet to be explored. F -isoprostanes are a prototype wastewater biomarker to study the cumulative oxida...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Scientific reports Jg. 6; S. 39055 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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15.12.2016
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| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Wastewater analysis has been demonstrated to be a complementary approach for assessing the overall patterns of drug use by a population while the full potential of wastewater-based epidemiology has yet to be explored. F
-isoprostanes are a prototype wastewater biomarker to study the cumulative oxidative stress at a community level. In this work, 8-iso-prostaglandin F
(8-iso-PGF
) was analysed in raw 24 h-composite wastewater samples collected from 4 Norwegian and 7 other European cities in 2014 and 2015. Using the same samples, biomarkers of alcohol (ethyl sulfate) and tobacco (trans-3'-hydroxycotinine) use were also analysed to investigate any possible correlation between 8-iso-PGF
and the consumption of the two drugs. The estimated per capita daily loads of 8-iso-PGF
in the 11 cities ranged between 2.5 and 9.9 mg/day/1000 inhabitants with a population-weighted mean of 4.8 mg/day/1000 inhabitants. There were no temporal trends observed in the levels of 8-iso-PGF
, however, spatial differences were found at the inter-city level correlating to the degree of urbanisation. The 8-iso-PGF
mass load was found to be strongly associated with that of trans-3'-hydroxycotinine while it showed no correlation with ethyl sulfate. The present study shows the potential for 8-iso-PGF
as a wastewater biomarker for the assessment of community public health. |
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| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep39055 |