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Título: Are pet dogs good sentinels of human exposure to environmental polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls?
Autores/as: Ruiz-Suárez, Norberto
Rial, Cristian 
Boada, Luis D. 
Henríquez-Hernández, Luis A. 
Valeron, Pilar F. 
Camacho, María 
Zumbado, Manuel 
González, Maira Almeida 
Lara, Pedro 
Luzardo, Octavio P. 
Clasificación UNESCO: 3212 Salud pública
3308 Ingeniería y tecnología del medio ambiente
Palabras clave: Organochlorine pesticides
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Organohalogenated contaminants
Body burden, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2016
Editor/a: 0971-2119
Publicación seriada: Journal of Applied Animal Research 
Resumen: Several studies have shown that pet dogs and cats, since they share the habitat with people, could be good sentinels for human exposure to environmental pollutants. However, some publications have suggested that dogs could efficiently metabolize and eliminate some persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which are accumulated by humans throughout life. For this reason, the role of domestic dogs as sentinels could not be appropriate, at least for certain contaminants. To test this hypothesis, we designed this study in which we determined plasma levels of 56 POPs (11 organochlorine pesticides [OCPs], 18 polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs] and 27 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in the plasma of 87 dogs and 100 people from the same area (the Canary Islands, Spain). We detected most of these contaminants in the plasma of both species, although the frequencies of detection, concentrations and profiles were very different from each other, especially for Sigma OCPs and Sigma PCBs. In light of these results, we can conclude that, although they share the environment, sources of exposure to these pollutants and/or the metabolic capabilities do not seem to be comparable between the two species, so that the dog does not seem to be a good sentinel for human exposure to these contaminants.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/43019
ISSN: 0971-2119
DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2015.1021808
Fuente: Journal of Applied Animal Research [ISSN 0971-2119], v. 44, p. 135-145, (2016)
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