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Scientists at the University of Murcia research work in unwanted effects on the endocrine system of exposure to mixtures of persistent pollutants ambiantales.
The team, led by Professor of Toxicology Juan Antonio García Fernández, of the fact that these contaminants are never alone in nature, they tend to be mixed in different concentrations.
What research scientists at the University of Murcia is to determine the effects of the mixture, as far as is known is the toxicity of each in isolation.
For the study, with funding from the Ministry of Education and Science, the scientists will take samples from a non-invasive or invasive forest raptors such as eagles driveways, buzzards, hawks and others.
In fact, the team has already studied for some years the blood of these animals, only the healthy.
Now, non-invasive samples to be analyzed will be feathers and unhatched eggs infertile, and their study will get the parameters will guide the preparation of mixtures of pollutants to be tested experimentally.
Later, the researchers tested these mixtures of persistent environmental pollutants in vitro cultures of cells from human breast cancer.
The results can be used to implement both the management and conservation of wildlife species to predict the risks for human beings in general, including the human species.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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