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  title info:
    title: Organochlorine distribution and immune responses in rehabilitating northern elephant seals
  name:
    name part: Shoda, Lisl Katharine Mie
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 176 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The overall goal of this study was to use rehabilitating
  abstract: juvenile northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) as
  abstract: a model to investigate changes in organochlorine (OC)
  abstract: concentrations in serum and blubber relative to changes in
  abstract: body composition. According to this model, rehabilitating
  abstract: seals are hypothesized to initially demonstrate poor body
  abstract: condition, high levels of serum OCs and relatively low
  abstract: blubber OCs; after rehabilitation, seals are hypothesized to
  abstract: demonstrate improved body condition, decreased serum OCs and
  abstract: increased blubber OCs. An additional goal was to establish
  abstract: assays to assess immune responsiveness relative to serum OC
  abstract: concentration. Samples for the determination of' body
  abstract: condition, serum and blubber OC concentrations, and immune
  abstract: responses were obtained from each seal on three occasions at
  abstract: one month intervals. Fat mass was used as an index of body
  abstract: condition and was determined from total body water (TBW)
  abstract: using the equation, TB W (kg) = -2.96 + 0.51 -M (kg). Paired
  abstract: serum and blubber samples yielded comparable determinations
  abstract: of OC concentration, but a predictive relationship could not
  abstract: be developed to estimate blubber OC concentrations from blood
  abstract: OC concentrations. Similarly, a consistent relationship
  abstract: could not be identified between OC concentrations and body
  abstract: condition. Two assays were established to assess immune
  abstract: responses in northern elephant seals. These were an
  abstract: interleukin 2 MRNA expression assay and a whole blood
  abstract: lymphoproliferative assay. In summary, the data could not
  abstract: demonstrate a consistent
  abstract: relationship between body condition and OC concentrations in
  abstract: this system; however, the data did show that OC
  abstract: concentrations were dynamic in serum and blubber. It was
  abstract: suggested that a greater number of samples per seal, analyzed
  abstract: relative to a more accurate index of body composition would
  abstract: permit the identification of a relationship between body fat
  abstract: and OCs. The immunotoxic risk imposed by serum levels is
  abstract: still unknown, but two additional assays developed as part of
  abstract: this project are expected to assist in future elucidation of
  abstract: this subject.
  note: by Lisl Katharine Mie Shoda.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 124-139.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 1997.
  subject:
    topic: Major wildlife and fisheries sciences
  identifier: 98-00809 UMI
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    record creation date: 980409
    record change date: 20190325093503.0
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