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Bioremediation of soil contaminated by organic compounds can remove the contaminants to a large extent, but residual contamination
levels may remain which are not or only slowly biodegraded. Residual levels often exceed existing clean-up guidelines and
thereby limit the use of bioremediation in site clean-up. A method for estimating the expected residual levels would be a
useful tool in the assessment of the feasability of bioremediation. In this study, three soil types from a creosote-contaminated
field site, which had been subjected to 6 months of bioremediation in laboratory column studies, were used to characterize
the residual contamination levels and assess their availability for biodegradation. The soils covered a wide range of organic
carbon levels and particle size distributions. Results from the biodegradation studies were compared with desorption rate
measurements and selective extractability using butanol. Residual levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons after bioremediation
were found to be strongly dependent on soil type. The presence of both soil organic matter and asphaltic compounds in the
soil was found to be associated with higher residual levels. Good agreement was found between the biodegradable fraction and
the rapidly desorbable fraction in two of the three soils studied. Butanol extraction was found to be a useful method for
roughly estimating the biodegradable fraction in the soil samples. The results indicate that both desorption and selective
extraction measurements could aid the assessment of the feasability for bioremediation and identifying acceptable end-points.
Received: 15 September 1999 / Received revision: 7 February 2000 / Accepted: 13 February 2000 相似文献
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Nutrient-limited biodegradation of PAH in various soil strata at a creosote contaminated site 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
The effects of nutrient addition on the in situ biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in creosote contaminated soil were studied in soil columns taken from various soil strata at a wood preserving plant in Norway. Three samples were used: one from the topsoil (0–0.5 m), one from an organic rich layer (2–2.5 m) and one from the sandy aquifer (4.5–5 m). The addition of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorous stimulated the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the top soil and the aquifer sand. These two soils, which differed strongly in contamination levels, responded similarly to nutrient addition with the corresponding degradation of 4-ring PAHs. The ratio between available nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) might explain the degree of degradation observed for the 4-ring PAHs. However, the degree of degradation of 3-ring PAHs did not significantly increase after nutrient addition. An increase in the respiration rate, after nutrient addition, could only be observed in the topsoil. In the aquifer sand, 4-ring PAH degradation was not accompanied by an increase in the respiration rate or the number of heterotrophic micro-organisms. PAH degradation in the organic layer did not respond to nutrient addition. This was probably due to the low availability of the contaminants for micro-organisms, as a result of sorption to the soil organic matter. Our data illustrate the need for a better understanding of the role of nutrients in the degradation of high molecular weight hydrocarbons for the successful application of bioremediation at PAH contaminated sites. 相似文献
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With regard to rheumatoid arthritis, remission as currently used in the literature can have two meanings: either a state with
persistent absence of clinical and radiological signs of disease activity without being treated for a specific time period,
or it may point to a disease state with minimal disease activity during antirheumatic treatment. A risk factor for the first
is absence of autoantibodies, with the anti-CCP-antibodies as best predictors, whereas risk factors for achieving a drug-induced
state of minimal disease activity are not well defined. These definitions of remission refer to different disease states;
therefore, we propose that the term remission is reserved for patients that are not treated with antirheumatic drugs. 相似文献
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Laboratory batch experiments were performed with contaminated aquifer sediments and four soluble aromatic components of jet fuel to assess their biodegradation under anaerobic conditions. The biodegradation of four aromatic compounds, toluene, o-xylene, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (TMB), and naphthalene, separately or together, was investigated under strictly anaerobic conditions in the dark for a period of 160 days. Of the aromatic compounds, toluene and o-xylene were degraded both as a single substrate and in a mixture with the other aromatic compounds, while TMB was not biodegraded as a single substrate, but was biodegraded in the presence of the other aromatic hydrocarbons. Substrate interaction is thus significant in the biodegradation of TMB. Biodegradation of naphthalene was not observed, either as a single substrate or in a mixture of other aromatic hydrocarbons. Although redox conditions were dominated by iron reduction, a clear relation between degradation and sulfate reduction was observed. Methanogenesis took place during the later stages of incubation. However, the large background of Fe(II) masked the increase of Fe(II) concentration due to iron reduction. Thus, although microbial reduction of Fe(III) is an important process, the evidence is not conclusive. Our results have shown that a better understanding of the degradation of complex mixtures of hydrocarbons under anaerobic conditions is important in the application of natural attenuation as a remedial method for soil and groundwater contamination. 相似文献
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Merel C. Breedveld Patrick S. Fitze 《Biological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London》2016,118(3):610-617
The benefits obtained from mating are usually condition‐dependent, favouring the evolution of flexible investment during copulation; for example, in terms of invested time, energy or sperm. Flexible investment strategies are predicted to depend on the likelihood of acquiring alternative mates and therefore they should depend on the timing of mate encounter. However, scarce experimental evidence for this hypothesis exists. In the present study, we manipulated the time delay until first mating and the interval between first and second mating in the polygynandrous common lizard Zootoca vivipara. We determined treatment effects on fertilization success and copulation duration, with the latter being a proxy for investment in mating and for the quantity of transferred sperm. The duration of the second copulation decreased with increasing inter‐mating interval and depended on the fertilization success of first mates. The former provides evidence for time‐dependent investment strategies, most likely resulting from the progression of the female's reproductive cycle. The fertilization success of first mates increased with increasing inter‐mating interval and was higher when females were closer to ovulation, showing that flexible investment strategies significantly affected male reproductive success. This indicates fertilization assurance, which may mitigate the negative effects of low population density on reproductive success (e.g. Allee effects). 相似文献
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A rapid procedure for purification of EcoRI endonuclease. 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
J Sümegi D Breedveld P Hossenlopp P Chambon 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1977,76(1):78-85
A convenient and rapid procedure has been developed to purify restriction endonuclease Eco RI. The method involves sonication of cells at low ionic strength, precipitation of the endonuclease with Polymin P (a polyethyleneimine), elution of the enzyme from the Polymin P precipitate, ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatography on phosphocellulose. The purified restriction endonuclease is free of exonuclease and other endonucleases. 相似文献
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Maarten C Kraan Dhavalkumar D Patel Jasper J Haringman Malcolm D Smith Helen Weedon Michael J Ahern Ferdinand C Breedveld Paul P Tak 《Arthritis research & therapy》2000,3(1):65-7
Paired synovial tissue samples were obtained from both clinically uninvolved (CU) and clinically involved (CI) knee joints of eight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. In addition, biopsies were taken from five control subjects. We observed the expression of the chemokines CXCL8, CXCL9, CXCL10, CCL2 and CCL4 in CI and CU joints of RA patients. In particular, CXCL8 protein levels were specifically increased in CI joints compared with CU joints, which was confirmed by immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. 相似文献
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