Biomonitoring of Toxic Metals in Feathers of Birds from North-Eastern Pakistan

The current study was designed to determine the concentrations of toxic metals (Ni, Pb and Cr) in feathers of birds collected from four regions of NE Pakistan. Feather samples of birds (House Crow, Common Myna and House Sparrow) were collected from different areas. Atomic absorption spectrophotomete...

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Autores principales: Aziz, Bushra, Zubair, Muhammad, Irshad, Nausheen, Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique, Mahmood, Majid, Tahir, Majid Mahmood, Shah, Khizar Hussain, Shaheen, Aqeela
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33743020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-021-03184-w
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author Aziz, Bushra
Zubair, Muhammad
Irshad, Nausheen
Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique
Mahmood, Majid
Tahir, Majid Mahmood
Shah, Khizar Hussain
Shaheen, Aqeela
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Zubair, Muhammad
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description The current study was designed to determine the concentrations of toxic metals (Ni, Pb and Cr) in feathers of birds collected from four regions of NE Pakistan. Feather samples of birds (House Crow, Common Myna and House Sparrow) were collected from different areas. Atomic absorption spectrophotometer was used to determine the concentration of metals in feathers. Analysis of the data revealed that concentrations of Pb and Cr were significantly different (p < 0.05) among bird species, whereas no difference (p > 0.05) was detected among bird species (house crow, common myna and house sparrow) for Ni. A significant difference was found for the concentration of Pb and Ni in all the four studied regions. Whereas, non-significant difference was found in all the studied regions for the concentrating of Cr. It was revealed that there is significant rising concentration of metals (Pb, Cr) in feathers of birds in Azad Kashmir.
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spelling pubmed-80498922021-04-29 Biomonitoring of Toxic Metals in Feathers of Birds from North-Eastern Pakistan Aziz, Bushra Zubair, Muhammad Irshad, Nausheen Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique Mahmood, Majid Tahir, Majid Mahmood Shah, Khizar Hussain Shaheen, Aqeela Bull Environ Contam Toxicol Article The current study was designed to determine the concentrations of toxic metals (Ni, Pb and Cr) in feathers of birds collected from four regions of NE Pakistan. Feather samples of birds (House Crow, Common Myna and House Sparrow) were collected from different areas. Atomic absorption spectrophotometer was used to determine the concentration of metals in feathers. Analysis of the data revealed that concentrations of Pb and Cr were significantly different (p < 0.05) among bird species, whereas no difference (p > 0.05) was detected among bird species (house crow, common myna and house sparrow) for Ni. A significant difference was found for the concentration of Pb and Ni in all the four studied regions. Whereas, non-significant difference was found in all the studied regions for the concentrating of Cr. It was revealed that there is significant rising concentration of metals (Pb, Cr) in feathers of birds in Azad Kashmir. Springer US 2021-03-20 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8049892/ /pubmed/33743020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-021-03184-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Ahmad, Khawaja Shafique
Mahmood, Majid
Tahir, Majid Mahmood
Shah, Khizar Hussain
Shaheen, Aqeela
Biomonitoring of Toxic Metals in Feathers of Birds from North-Eastern Pakistan
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