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Identification of 4-Hydroxyheptachlorostyrene in Polar Bear Plasma and Its Binding Affinity to Transthyretin:  A Metabolite of Octachlorostyrene?

Centre for Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada, Department of Toxicology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Tuinlaan 5, 6703 HE Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wellington Laboratories Inc., 398 Laird Road, Guelph,...

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Analysis of Hydroxylated Metabolites of PCBs (OH-PCBs) and Other Chlorinated Phenolic Compounds in Whole Blood from Canadian Inuit.

In this study, we identified the main hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) and other chlorinated phenolic compounds and we determined their relative concentrations in whole blood from 13 male and 17 female Inuit from northern Quebec, Canada, and from a pooled whole blood sample from southern Quebec. We...

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The Enantioselective Bioaccumulation of Chiral Chlordane and α-HCH Contaminants in the Polar Bear Food Chain

The enantiomer ratios (ERs) of α-HCH and chlordane related compounds (CHLs) were examined in the polar bear food chain (arctic cod−ringed seal−polar bear), using chiral gas chromatography−mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The cod showed near-racemic mixtures (ER = 1) for most of the compounds. In contrast, ERs in ringed...

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Enantioselective Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry of Methylsulfonyl PCBs with Application to Arctic Marine Mammals

Four different commercially available cyclodextrin (CD) capillary gas chromatography (GC) columns were tested for the enantioselective separation of nine environmentally persistent atropisomeric 3- and 4-methylsulfonyl PCBs (MeSO2-CBs). The selected columns contained cyclodextrins with various cavity diameters (β- or...

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