Levels of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) and PCBs were measured in the brain of melon-headed whales (MW: Peponocephala electra), striped dolphins (SD: Stenella coeruleoalba) and finless porpoises (FP: Neophocaena phocaenoides) st...
In Monirith, Daisuke Ueno, Shin Takahashi, Haruhiko Nakata, Agus Sudaryanto, Annamalai Subramanian, Subramanian Karuppiah, Ahmad Ismail, Muswerry Muchtar, Jinshu Zheng, Bruce J. Richardson, Maricar Prudente, Ngyen Duc Hue, Touch Seang Tana, Alexander V. Tkalin, Shinsuke Tanabe
Marine Pollution Bulletin 46 281-300 2003年3月
Contamination of persistent organochlorines (OCs) such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), HCH (hexachlorocyclohexane) isomers (HCHs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), and HCB (hexachlorobenzene) were examined in mussel...
D. Ueno, S. Takahashi, H. Tanaka, A. N. Subramanian, G. Fillmann, H. Nakata, P. K S Lam, J. Zheng, M. Muchtar, M. Prudente, K. H. Chung, S. Tanabe
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 45(3) 378-389 2003年10月
Concentrations of organochlorines (OCs) representing persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane iso...
UENO D, IKEDA K, SUBRAMANIAN A N, FILLMANN G, LAM P K S, MUCHTAR M, PRUDENTE M, CHUNG K, TANABE S
Environmental Pollution 127(1) 1-12 2004年1月
Butyltin compounds (BTs) including mono- (MBT), di- (DBT), tri-butyltin (TBT) and total tin (ΣSn), were determined in the liver of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) collected from Asian offshore waters (off-Japan, the Japan Sea, off-Taiwan, the E...
Marine Environmental Research 57(5) 397-414 2004年6月
The concentrations of butyltins along the Japanese coastline were investigated from 1997 to 1999, 7 to 9 years after implemantion of legislation limiting the use of tributyltin (TBT) in Japan. Seawater was sampled at 0.5 m depth, and Caprella spp....
SUDARYANTO A, TAKAHASHI S, IWATA H, TANABE S, ISMAIL A
Environmental Pollution 130(3) 347-358 2004年8月
Concentration of butyltin compounds (BTs), including tributyltin (TBT), dibutyltin (DBT) and monobutyltin (MBT) and total tin (ΣSn) were determined in green mussel (Perna viridis), 10 species of muscle fish and sediment from coastal waters of Mala...
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84 911-918 2004年10月
Caprella spp. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) inhabiting the Sargassum algal community in Otsuchi Bay near unpopulated areas of northern Japan, were collected from 1994 to 2001 and subjected to analysis of butyltin (BT) concentrations. The period from 1994...
Restrictions on the use of tributyltin (TBT) in aquaculture and on boats in coastal regions, except for ocean-going vessels, have been in place in Japan since 1990 due to the strong toxic effects of TBT on marine organisms. However, TBT pollution ...
An intercalibration study on organobromine compounds has been conducted to evaluate the accuracy and reliability in the analysis of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their related compounds like ...
Lin Tao, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Natsuko Kajiwara, Mônica M. Costa, Gilberto Fillmann, Shin Takahashi, Shinsuke Tanabe
Environmental Science and Technology 40 7642-7648 2006年12月
Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) have been used as surfactants in industrial and commercial products for over 50 years. Earlier studies of the geographical distribution of PFCs focused primarily on the Northern Hemisphere, while little attention wa...
Environmental Science and Technology 41 1487-1493 2007年2月
Many researchers are increasingly interested in human exposure to house dust containing household compounds such as polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs). Nevertheless, no investigations have addressed the endocrine-disrupting potencies of compoun...
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 52 458-465 2007年5月
Surficial sediment samples were collected from Hochiminh City canals, the Sai Gon-Dong Nai River, and its estuary, one of the most predominant industrial areas in Hochiminh City, southern Vietnam, for determination of selected persistent organic p...
The hydrothermal degradation pathways of decabromodiphenyl ether during hydrothermal treatment were investigated. After an initial "Heating time", the reaction runs were carried out at constant temperature (heating to 300 °C and keeping temperatur...
Karri Ramu, Natsuko Kajiwara, Tomohiko Isobe, Shin Takahashi, Eun Young Kim, Byung Yoon Min, Sung Ug We, Shinsuke Tanabe
Environmental Pollution 148 562-569 2007年7月
Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) from 20 locations along the coastal waters of Korea were analyzed to elucidate the characteristic distribution and contamination status of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs), polyc...
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs), hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) and polybrominated diethyl ethers (PBDEs) were detected in three sediment cores and six surface sediments of Tokyo Bay, Japan. HBCDs were detected for the first time in this regio...
Karri Ramu, Natsuko Kajiwara, Agus Sudaryanto, Tomohiko Isobe, Shin Takahashi, Annamalai Subramanian, Daisuke Ueno, Gene J. Zheng, Paul K S Lam, Hideshige Takada, Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria, Pham Hung Viet, Maricar Prudente, Touch Seang Tana, Shinsuke Tanabe
Environmental Science and Technology 41 4580-4586 2007年7月
Mussel samples were used in this study to measure the levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and organochlorines (OCs) in the coastal waters of Asian countries like Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, th...
A diastereoisomer (α, β, and γ) specific analytical method for measuring hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) was developed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS). The method developed was applied to analyze blubber of small ce...
Agus Sudaryanto, Agus Sudaryanto, In Monirith, Natsuko Kajiwara, Shin Takahashi, Philippus Hartono, Muawanah, Koji Omori, Hidetaka Takeoka, Shinsuke Tanabe
Environment International 33 750-758 2007年8月
Organochlorines such as PCBs, DDTs, HCHs, CHLs and HCB were determined in pooled whole body homogenized of fish samples collected from five locations during 1998 and 2003 in order to understand their contamination status, temporal and spatial vari...
Ana Sousa, Chiho Matsudaira, Shin Takahashi, Shinsuke Tanabe, Carlos Barroso
Marine Pollution Bulletin 54 1645-1653 2007年10月
Organotin (OT) compounds have been used as biocide agents in antifouling paints since the mid 1960s and are now ubiquitous in the marine environment. Due to their high toxicity to non-target species they were banned from antifouling paints in the ...
The present study determined concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and persistent organochlorines (OCs) in Japanese human adipose tissues collected during 2003-2004. Concentrations of PBDEs in adipose tissues were 1-2 orders of ...
Concentrations of 21 trace elements (V, Cr, Mn, Co, Cu, Zn, Se, Rb, Sr, Mo, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Cs, Ba, Hg, Tl, Pb and Bi) were determined in the liver and muscle of Baikal seals (Pusa sibirica) (n = 44) collected from Lake Baikal, R...
Concentrations of particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) in ambient air were investigated every month during the period Apr. 2004 to Mar. 2006 at two sampling sites in Ehime Prefecture; Site-N in Niihama city industrial area and Site-U...
Agus Sudaryanto, Agus Sudaryanto, Natsuko Kajiwara, Shin Takahashi, Muawanah, Shinsuke Tanabe
Environmental Pollution 151 130-138 2008年1月
The present study reports concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and organochlorines (OCs) in human breast milk from Indonesia covering urban, suburban and rural areas. PBDEs were detected in all the samples of the present study ...
Environmental Science and Technology 42 685-691 2008年2月
The present study investigated concentrations and patterns of brominated flame retardants, such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs), and persistent organochlorines (OCs) in liver and adipose tissues of rac...
Environmental Science and Technology 42 1794-1800 2008年3月
Our previous study demonstrated that compounds in indoor dusts strongly inhibit thyroxine (T4) binding to the human thyroid hormone transport protein transthyretin (TTR) in vitro. Exposure assessment indicated that house dust is an important mediu...
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) were determined in muscle, liver and eggs of freshwater fishes from the lower reach of the Yangtze River, China. The present study is the first to report HBCD concentration...
Organotin compounds (OTs) including mono- to tri-butyltins, -phenyltins, and -octyltins were determined in the liver of adult sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead along the coasts of California, Washington, and Alaska in the USA and Kamchatka, R...
The present study determined concentrations and patterns of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in specimens of open sea, and Japanese coastal and inland avian species, which have been stored in the Environm...
Miléne Rato, Miguel B. Gaspar, Shin Takahashi, Shinichi Yano, Shinsuke Tanabe, Carlos Barroso
Marine Pollution Bulletin 56 1323-1331 2008年7月
Imposex and organotin (OT) tissue contamination of the netted whelk Nassarius reticulatus (L.) were assessed in the continental shelves around the main estuaries of the central coast of Portugal (Lisbon: Tagus estuary; Setúbal: Sado estuary) and t...
Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 10 93-101 2008年9月
The End-of-life Vehicles Recycling Act went into effect on January 1, 2005, in Japan and requires the proper treatment of airbags, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and automobile shredder residue (ASR). The need for optimal treatment and recycling of A...
Kimberly Hart, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Lin Tao, Shin Takahashi, Shinsuke Tanabe
Science of the Total Environment 403 215-221 2008年9月
Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) have emerged as global environmental contaminants. Studies have reported the widespread occurrence of PFCs in biota from marine coastal waters and in remote polar regions. However, few studies have reported the dist...
Environmental Science and Technology 42 7132-7137 2008年10月
As a result of the phase-out of production of perfluorooctanesulfonyl-based compounds by a major producer, concentrations of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) in marine mammals from North American and European coastal waters have been declining sinc...
Agus Sudaryanto, Natsuko Kajiwara, Oyuna V. Tsydenova, Tomohiko Isobe, Hongxia Yu, Shin Takahashi, Shinsuke Tanabe
Chemosphere 73 1661-1668 2008年11月
Fourteen PBDE congeners from mono- to deca-BDE were determined in breast milk of primiparous mothers from two locations in East China, i.e. Nanjing (n = 9), an urban area, and Zhoushan (n = 10), a semi rural coastal area. PBDEs were detected in al...
Gan Zhang, Paromita Chakraborty, Jun Li, Pichai Sampathkumar, Thangavel Balasubramanian, Kandasamy Kathiresan, Shin Takahashi, Annamalai Subramanian, Shinsuke Tanabe, Kevin C. Jones
Environmental Science and Technology 42 8218-8223 2008年11月
India is of prime interest due to the large past and ongoing use of pesticidal persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Rapid dissipation of POPs to the atmosphere in the tropical climate of India infers an atmospheric outflow of these chemicals. Yet...
Trace elements (22) and stable isotope ratios (δ15N and δ13C) were analyzed in marine organisms from shallow (SW) and deep-water (DW) of the East China Sea to understand biomagnification and prey source of trace elements. In the benthic marine org...
Developments in Environmental Science 7 587-627 2007年12月
Although Indonesia has been using vast amounts of chemicals for accelerating its economic development as well as for combating various vector borne diseases, the state of knowledge on toxic pollutants in the country is not much understood, due to ...
Developments in Environmental Science 7 515-555 2007年12月
This chapter provides an overview of the contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Vietnam on the basis of the results of extensive monitoring studies conducted in our laboratory during the last two decades. Surveys conducted in the...
Journal of Environmental Monitoring 10(2) 188-197 2008年2月
In this paper, we summarize spatial and temporal trends of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) in coastal and marine biota, and further assess human exposure to these brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in Asi...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 193 213-290 2008年12月
Global contamination and toxic effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been an emerging environmental issue and have received considerable attention during the past four decades. Although the extent of contamination by POPs has been d...
Shin ichi Sakai, Hideto Yoshida, Yasuhiro Hirai, Misuzu Asari, Hidetaka Takigami, Shin Takahashi, Keijirou Tomoda, Maria Victoria Peeler, Jakub Wejchert, Thomas Schmid-Unterseh, Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, Roy Hathaway, Lars D. Hylander, Christian Fischer, Gil Jong Oh, Li Jinhui, Ngo Kim Chi
Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management 13 86-102 2011年8月
Reduce, reuse, and recycle (3R) policies form the basis of waste management and global warming countermeasures globally, so we conducted a comparative study of 3R and waste management policies in the European Union (EU), USA, Korea, Japan, China, ...
Organotin compounds are industrial chemicals used as biocides, polyvinyl chloride stabilizers and industrial catalysts for the manufacture of silicone and polyurethane foams. Despite multiple applications, organotin notoriety is due to tributyltin...
阿草哲郎, 阿草哲郎, 國頭恭, TUE Nguyen Minh, LAN Vi Thi Mai, MINH Tu Binh, TRANG Pham Thi Kim, 藤原純子, 竹下治男, 高橋真, VIET Pham Hung, 田辺信介, 岩田久人
日本衛生学雑誌 70(3) 186-196 (J-STAGE)-196 2015年1月
Arsenic metabolism affects the susceptibility of humans to arsenic toxicity; therefore, clarification of the factors associated with individual variations in arsenic metabolism is an important task. Genetic polymorphisms such as single nucleotide ...
Sakai Shin-ichi, Yano Junya, Hirai Yasuhiro, Asari Misuzu, Yanagawa Ritsuki, Matsuda Takeshi, Yoshida Hideto, Yamada Tetsuji, Kajiwara Natsuko, Suzuki Go, Kunisue Tatsuya, Takahashi Shin, Tomoda Keijiro, Wuttke Joachim, Maehlitz Paul, Rotter Vera Susanne, Grosso Mario, Astrup Thomas Fruergaard, Cleary Julian, Oh Gil-Jong, Liu Lili, Li Jinhui, Ma Hwong-wen, Chi Ngo Kim, Moore Stephen
JOURNAL OF MATERIAL CYCLES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 19(4) 1295-1313 2017年10月 [査読有り]
Global contamination and toxic effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been an emerging environmental issue and have received considerable attention during the past four decades. Although the extent of contamination by POPs has been d...
This chapter provides an overview of the contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Vietnam on the basis of the results of extensive monitoring studies conducted in our laboratory during the last two decades. Surveys conducted in the...
