Fluorescence quenching of 22 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by nitromethane in toluene and acetonitrile solutions has been studied. Contrary to Sawicki's observations that the fluorescence of hydrocarbons with the fluoranthene skeleton is not quenched that of 11J2and 3.4-benzofluoranthene and fluoranthene itself is quenched. These compounds have a high energy of the fluorescence transition. T...

The aim of this study was to analyze changes in the content of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban soils fertilized with municipal sewage sludge. The factors in the experiment were three lawns along the main roads in Bialystok (in Popieluszki, Hetmanska and Raginisa Strs.), doses of sewage sludge (0 – control; 75 and 150 Mg/ha) and two years of study (2011 and 2012). The s...

The mutagenic activity of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocar bon-containing fraction of several soot samples was measured in Salmonella typhimurium, using resistance to the purine analog 8-azaguanine as a genetic marker. A postmitochondrial supernatant derived from livers of phénobarbitaland/or Aroclor-pretreated male Sprague-Dawley rats was incorporated into all assays to allow metabolism of pr...

A bacterial strain P2 capable of using phenanthrene as a sole source of carbon and energy was isolated from a lubricant-contaminated soil sample collected from a garage in Prajinburi province, Thailand and identified by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis to be in the genus of Sphingomonas. The Sphingomonas sp. strain P2 rapidly degraded phenanthrene from 100 mgl to undetectable level by HPLC analy...

Fifteen bacterial strains isolated from solid waste oil samples were selected due to their capacity of growing in the presence of hydrocarbons. The isolates were identified by PCR of the 16S rDNA gene using fD1 and rD1 primers. The majority of the strains belonged to genera Bacillus, Bacillus pumilus (eight strains) and Bacillus subtilis (two strains). Besides, three strains were identified as ...

Sediment quality guidelines and toxic equivalent factors have been used for assessment of the toxicity of sedimentary long-range atmospherically transported polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to the organisms living in high mountain European lakes. This method has provided indices that are consistent with experimental studies evaluating in situ sedimentary estrogenic activity or physiologi...

BACKGROUND Exposure to air pollutants including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), and specifically pyrene from combustion of fuel oil, coal, traffic and indoor sources, has been associated with adverse respiratory health outcomes. However, time trends of airborne PAH and metabolite levels detected via repeat measures over time have not yet been characterized. We hypothesized that PAH leve...

Dibenzo(a,e)fluoranthene (DBF), a powerful carcinogenic nonalternant aromatic hydrocarbon, has been metabolized in vitro by incubation in mouse and rat liver microsomal homogenates. Five major stable metabolites were separated by highpressure liquid chromatography and then analyzed by spectroscopic procedures and comparison with synthetic model com pounds. Three of them are phenols correspondin...