Publications by authors named "Kristen M Prossner"
Article Synopsis
- Crassostrea virginica, a type of oyster, helps scientists check for harmful chemicals in water, like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).
- Researchers compared wild oysters to farmed ones (triploid and diploid) to see how much PAH they absorbed over six weeks at a polluted site.
- The study found that wild oysters and transplanted ones had different levels of contamination, which could mean they need more time to adjust in new environments to show accurate results.
Bivalve mollusks including oysters have low metabolic potential and are therefore susceptible to accumulating high levels of lipophilic organic contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Human exposure to PAHs via consumption of this important commercial shellfish can be a serious public health concern in areas where high PAH contamination exists. Previous PAH immunohistochemical studies have been limited to laboratory-based exposures focusing on one or a few individual PAH compounds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConventional PAH analytical methods are time-consuming and expensive, limiting their utility in time sensitive events (i.e. oil spills and floods) or for widespread environmental monitoring.
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