• 생태와환경
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.431-440
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• 2008

Turbid water or suspended sediment is associated with negative effects on aquatic organisms; fish, aquatic invertebrate, and periphyton. Effects of turbid water on fish differ depending on their developmental stage and a level of turbidity. Low turbid water may cause feeding and predation rates, reaction distance, and avoidance in fish, and it could make fish to die under high turbidity and long period. Therefore, it is very important to find out how turbid water or suspended sediment can affect fish in domestic watersheds. The objectives of this study were 1) to introduce international case studies and their standards to deal with suspended sediment, 2) to determine acute toxicity in 4 major freshwater fishes, and 3) to determine in relation to adverse effect of macroinvertebrates and fish. Impacts of turbid water on fish can be categorized into direct and indirect effects, and some factors such as duration and frequency of exposure, toxicity, temperature, life stage of fish, size of particle, time of occurrence, availability of and access to refugia, etc, play important role to decide magnitude of effect. A review of turbidity standard in USA, Canada, and Europe indicated that each standard varied with natural condition, and Alaska allowed liberal increase of turbidity over natural conditions in streams. Even though acute toxicity with four different species did not show any fatal effect, it should be considered to conduct a chronic test (long-term) for more detailed assessment. Compared to the control, dominance index of macroinvertebrates was greater in the turbid site, whereas biotic index, species diversity index, species richness index, and ecological score were smaller in the turbid site. According to histopathological analysis with gills of macroinvertebrate and fishes, morphological and physiological modification of gills due to suspended sediments can cause disturbance of respiration, excretion and secretion. In conclusion, in order to maintain good and healthy aquatic ecosystem, it is the best to minimize or prevent impact by occurrence of turbid water in stream and reservoir. We must make every effort to maintain and manage healthy aquatic ecosystem with additional investigation using various assessment tools and periodic biomonitoring of fish.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.261-265
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• 1999

시안의 만성적 조건에서 이스라엘 잉어의 생존, 섭이 및 성장에 미치는 독성영향을 파악하기 위하여 유수식방법에 의해 6주 동안 실험을 실시하였다. 시안의 만성적 조건하에 노출시킨 이스라엘잉어의 생존율은 시안농도 $151{\mu}$g/$\ell$이상에서 유의한 감소를 나타내었고, 실험종료시 시안농도 151, $289{\mu}$g/$\ell$에서 대조구에 비해 각각 15.2, $24.5\%$가 감소하였다. 섭이율은 시안농도 $151{\mu}$g/$\ell$에서는 3주, $289{\mu}$g/$\ell$에서는 1주 후부터 실험종료까지, 사료효율은 시안농도 $151{\mu}$g/$\ell$이상에서 2주 후부터 실험종료시까지 대조구에 비해 유의한 감소가 인정되었다. 성장률 및 일일성장율은 시안농도 $73{\mu}$g/$\ell$에서 6주 후에, 시안 농도 $151{\mu}$g/$\ell$이상에서는 2주 후부터 실험 종료시가지 유의한 감소를 나타냈다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.811-818
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• 2011

Daphnia Magna Stratus has been widely accepted as useful species for estimating the toxicity of chemicals to aquatic invertebrate and recommended as species for the testing chemicals from the international guideline as well as Korean guideline. The study was performed for the acute toxicity test by using water flea(D. Magna) for effluents from several wastewater treatment plants and drainage canals in GyeongBuk area. Five heavy metals, 1,4-Dioxane and Perchlorate were tested. Most Toxicity Units(TU) of Industrial wastewater effluents were less than 1 which means effluent was not toxic to D. Magna. However, effluents containing 1,4-Dioxane and Perchlorate were significantly toxic to D. Magna. Therefore, facilities should reduce the 1,4-dioxane since new regulations will force them after the year of 2011.

• 생태와환경
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.275-282
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 미국, 유럽연합, 호주/뉴질랜드, 캐나다 등 선진국에서 수생태계 보호를 위해 사용되는 수서독성자료의 경도 보정 적용 사례를 분석하였으며, 이를 바탕으로 국내 적용 가능한 경도 보정 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 경도 의존 중금속에 대한 경도 보정은 주로 수서독성자료의 독성치와 수서독성자료로부터 도출된 준거치에 대해 경도 보정 알고리즘을 적용하는 방법이며, 미국, 유럽연합, 호주/뉴질랜드, 캐나다 등 주요 국가에서 적용하고 있다. 또한 수서독성자료로부터 도출된 준거치를 경도 범위에 따라 차등 제시하는 방법이 있으며, 이는 주로 캐나다에서 활용하고 있다. 미국과 호주/뉴질랜드는 수서독성자료를 기반으로 개발된 알고리즘을 적용하여 주요 경도 의존 중금속에 대한 경도를 보정한 결과 경도 보정 전후의 독성치의 차이가 분명하였으며, 미국과 호주/뉴질랜드의 경도 보정 후 독성치는 거의 유사한 수준을 나타냈다. 또한 일정 경도 범위 내에서 미국과 호주/뉴질랜드의 경도 보정 알고리즘을 적용하여 경도 보정을 한 결과 경도 의존 중금속에서는 미국과 호주/뉴질랜드의 방법이 유사 또한 동일한 수준을 나타냈다. 그러나 카드뮴의 경우는 경도 30 mg $CaCO_3\;L^{-1}$ 이하에서 약간 차이가 있었다. 우리나라는 현재 기준경도를 설정하고 있지 않으나, 호주/뉴질랜드의 경도 보정 알고리즘 내 기준경도 인자를 국내 기준경도가 마련되면 국내인자로 보완하여 적용 가능한 경도 보정 알고리즘으로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.357-369
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 국내 수계에 서식하고 있는 수서생물을 대상으로 수행된 바 있는 국내외 독성 시험법의 노출 기간, 종말점 등 시험 세부 조건을 수렴하여, 향후 국내생태 독성시험법 개발을 위해 각 생물종별 시험 세부 조건별 범위와 생태독성평가기법 구축을 위한 방향을 제시하였다. 기존에 국내 생물종을 대상으로 국내외에서 수행된 바 있는 독성 시험법에 대한 연구 사례를 검토한 결과, OECD등의 표준시험법에서 추천한 시험종을 대상으로 한 독성자료가 상당 부분을 차지하였다. 또한 표준시험법의 공시종 이외에도 국내 생물종에 대한 소량의 연구 자료가 있었으나, 대체로 표준시험법을 개별 상황에 맞게 수정 적용한 것으로 나타났다. 특히 노출기간 및 배양액은 생물종마다 상이한 조건으로 수행된 바, 물벼룩류 독성시험에 있어서 가장 유의해야 할 조건인 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같이 국내 생물종을 이용한 생태독성평가 기반이 미비한 현 시점에서 보다 체계적인 국내생태독성시험법을 개발하기 위해서는 향후 실험 조건과 동일한 조건에서 생활사를 측정하여 보다 명확한 노출기간을 설정, 본 연구에서 선정한 물벼룩류 9종을 대상으로 도출된 생태독성시험기법에 대한 검증 그리고 기존 연구에서 사용되지 않았던 새로운 시험종 개발 및 각각의 시험종에 따른 최적 실험 조건 규명이 선행되어야 할 것이다. 따라서 본 연구는 국내 생물종을 대상으로 한 독성시험기법 및 방향을 제시함으로써 국내 수생태계 실정 및 먹이 연쇄를 통한 생물종 간 상호 관련성 등을 고려할 수 있는 국내 시험종 및 그에 따른 시험법 개발을 위한 중요한 기반이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.804-812
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• 2011

To prevent the overflow of various harmful chemicals, it is necessary to modify the chemical management system with an expansion to institutionally regulated substances. This modification should be preceded by selection of the priority chemicals, with a diverse chemical ranking system (CRS) applied to select the chemicals in developed countries. In Korea, a systematic CRS was used in a project related to soil and groundwater, however, it is inadequate to compare soil and groundwater CRS to that of surfacewater. In this study, a priority chemical ranking system for surfacewater was proposed through the analysis of international and domestic CRS cases. This was then applied to 161 chemicals to derive the priority list of harmful chemicals. As a result, Chemical RAnking of surFacewater polluTants (CRAFT) is presented for the protection of human health and the aquatic ecosystem from surfacewater pollutants. The components of CRAFT are the human health toxicity, aquatic ecosystem toxicity and reliability assessment factors. Three lists were derived from the 161 priority harmful chemicals for the protection of human health, aquatic ecosystem or both. It is expected that this result can be useful to prioritize harmful chemicals for the protection of human health and the aquatic ecosystem from Korean surfacewater.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.49-62
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• 2023

Phthalates are animal carcinogens. Potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP), which has the least complicated structure among phthalates, is used for the analysis of total organic carbon and formaldehyde. However, its toxicity has not been confirmed. A 24-hour acute toxicity test was performed using Daphnia magna, a water flea used to evaluate aquatic toxicity owing to its high sensitivity. The lowest observed effect concentration of KHP was found to be 240 mg/L. The effects of phosphorus, nitrogen, and Cr(6+), which are able to be discharged along with KHP, were also confirmed using tests. At 240 mg/L KHP, toxicity increased as phosphorus, nitrogen, and Cr(6+) increased. In addition, tests were performed to confirm the half maximal effective concentration of KHP. Through 10 test repetitions, the average ecotoxicity value was found to be 0.3, the average half maximal effective concentration was 327.75 mg/L, and the coefficient of variation (%) was 3.16%; because the latter value is lower than 25%, which is what is generally suggested for the water pollution standard method, the reproducibility of the tests is sufficient to replace the existing standard reference toxicity test that uses potassium dichromate. In addition, the half maximum effective concentration of potassium hydrogen phthalate is approximately 218 times more than that of potassium dichromate; therefore, toxicity is relatively low. In conclusion, KHP is a feasible alternative to the highly toxic potassium dichromate for performing the standard reference toxicity test.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.1179-1184
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• 2008

Commercial nanometer sized silver is widely used for its antibacterial effect; however, nanoparticles may also have ecotoxicological effects after being discharged into water. Nanometer sized silver can flow into aquatic environments, where it can exert a variety of physiologically effects in living organisms, including fish. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of nanometer sized silver on the development of zebrafish embryos, analyze the properties of commercial nanometer sized silver and define the toxicity relationship between embryogenesis and hatched flies. The commercial nanometer sized silver was analyzed in the $Ag^+$ ion form. The hatch rate decreased in the nano-silver exposed groups (10 and 20 ppt); furthermore, the hatched flies had an abnormal notochord, weak heart beat, damaged eyes and curved tail. The expression of the Sel N1 gene decreased in the nano-silver exposed groups, and the catalase activities of the exposed groups increased relative to those in the control group. Therefore, the $Ag^+$ ions in commercial nanometer sized silver could accumulate in aquatic environments and seriously damage the development of zebrafish embryos.

• Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.32.1-32.7
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• 2017

Recent in vitro studies have demonstrated that extract of soft coral Dendronephthya gigantea (SCDE) had strong anti-inflammatory activities. However, the direct effects of SCDE on anti-inflammatory activities in vivo model remained to be determined. Therefore, the present study was designed to assess in vivo anti-inflammatory effect of SCDE using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated zebrafish model. We also investigated whether SCDE has toxic effects in zebrafish model. The survival, heart beat rate, and developmental abnormalities were no significant change in the zebrafish embryos exposed to at a concentration below $100{\mu}g/ml$ of SCDE. However, lethal toxicity was caused after exposure to 200 and $400{\mu}g/ml$ of SCDE. Treating zebrafish model with LPS treatment significantly increased the reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO) generation. However, SCDE inhibited this LPS-stimulated ROS and NO generation in a dose-dependent manner. These results show that SCDE alleviated inflammation by inhibiting the ROS and NO generation induced by LPS treatment. In addition, SCDE has a protective effect against the cell damage induced by LPS exposure in zebrafish embryos. This outcome could explain the profound anti-inflammatory effect of SCDE both in vitro as well as in vivo, suggesting that the SCDE might be a strong anti-inflammatory agent.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.813-816
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• 1998

동해안 강릉 연안의 양식산과 자연산 참가리비의 마비성패독 (PSP)에 의한 독화상황을 파악하기 위하여 1997년 1월부터 6월까지 중장선의 독성을 조사하였다. 마우스를 이용한 생물검정법으로 조사한 결과, 4월 30일과 5월 15일 시료에서 비록 $2 MU\;g^{-1}$의 낮기는 하였지만 독성이 검출되었으며, HPLC로 독조성을 분석하였 더니 gonyautoxins (GTXs)과 protogonyautoxins (PXs)이 주요 성분으로 확인되었다. 이로써 우리나라 동해안에서도 PSP에 의해서 패류가 독화한다는 사실을 확인할 수 있었다.