Defining drinking water metal contaminant mixture risk by coupling zebrafish behavioral analysis with citizen science.

ABSTRACT: Contaminated drinking water is an important public health consideration in New England where well water is often found to contain arsenic and other metals such as cadmium, lead, and uranium. Chronic or high level exposure to these metals have been associated with multiple acute and chronic diseases, including cancers and impaired neurological development. While individual metal levels are often regulated, adverse health effects of metal mixtures, especially at concentrations considered safe for human consumption remain unclear. Here, we utilized a multivariate analysis that examined behavioral outcomes in the zebrafish model as a function of multiple metal chemical constituents of 92 drinking well water samples, collected in Maine and New Hampshire. To collect these samples, a citizen scie

SUBMITTER: Babich R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8397788 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature