Effect of Electroplating Waste water on Immune Function in Kunming Mice
- 1 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 2 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 3 Library, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 4 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 5 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 6 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 7 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 8 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
- 9 College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
Abstract
Electroplating waste water is considered to be harmful to health of animals. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that electroplating waste water would suppress immune functions in Kunming mice. Twenty-six mice were randomly divided into the control group (n = 13) and the experimental group (n = 13), in which the latter drank electroplating waste water. We found that body mass and most organ wet masses (heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach, caecum, colon, testes, epididymis, seminal vesicals) were not influenced by electroplating waste water. However, stomach with its content, small intestine, small intestine with its contents and colon with its contents were higher in the experimental group than in the control group. As expected, phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) response indicative of cellular immunity was suppressed by electroplating waste water. White blood cells, thymus and spleen mass were all not response to electroplating waste water. Taken together, electroplating waste water had different effects on distinct components of immune system in Kunming mice.
- Cai, Y. (2010) Effect of Electroplating Wastewater on Human Health and Its Centralized Processing. Agricultural Journal of Environmental Science, 29, 205-208.
- Gao, C., Liu, Z. and Zhou, P. (2013) Electroplating Industry Environment Analysis and Pollution Control Countermeasures. Environmental Protection, 5, 206-207.
- Ma, S. and Qu, K. (2004) Acute Toxicity Effect of Three Kinds of Industrial Wastewater on Chinese Shrimp Larva and Postlarva. Chinese Fisheries Science, 3, 220-225.
- Qu, K., Chen, M., Ma, S. and Xin, F. (2003) Toxicity Effect of Three Kinds of Industrial Wastewater on Flounder Embryos. Chinese Fisheries Science, 2, 155-160.
- Qu, K., Chen, M., Ma, S. and Xin, F. (2002) Acute Toxic Effect and Joint Toxicity of Several Kinds of Industrial Wastewater on Flounder Larvaes. Marine Fisheries Research, 23, 40-46.
- Qu, K., Ma, S., Qi, M., Bu, X., Qiao, X. and Yuan, J. (2004) Toxic Effects of Three Kinds of Industrial Waste Water on Chinese Prawn Embryo. Marine Fisheries Research, 25, 29-35.
- Zhu, D., Hu, D., Yu, W. and Liang, Y. (2008) The Application of Acute Toxic Test in Fish on the Dead Fish Events Arbitration Monitoring. Environment and Ecology in the Three Gorges, 1, 19-22.
- Smits, J.E., Bortolotti, G.R. and Tella, J.L. (1999) Simplifying the Phytohaemagglutinin Skin-Testing Technique in Studies of Avian Immunocompetence. Functional Ecology, 13, 567-572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.1999.00338.x
- Bellocq, J.G., Krasnov, B.R., Khokhlova, I.S. and Pinshow, B. (2006) Temporal Dynamics of a T-Cell Mediated Immune Response in Desert Rodents. Comparative and Biochemical Physiology Part A, 145, 554-559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.08.045
- Savino, W. and Dardenne, M. (2000) Neuroendocrine Control of Thymus Physiology. Endocrine Reviews, 21, 412-443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/er.21.4.412
- Calder, P.C. and Kew, S. (2002) The Immune System: A Target for Functional Foods? British Journal of Nutrition, 88, S165-S176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/BJN2002682
- Smith, K.G. and Hunt, J.L. (2004) On the Use of Spleen Mass as a Measure of Avian Immune System Strength. Oecologia, 138, 28-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-003-1409-y
- Xu, D.L. and Wang, D.H. (2010) Fasting Suppresses T Cell-Mediated Immunity in Female Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). Comparative and Biochemical Physiology Part A, 155, 25-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.09.003