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© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

Pollution by active ingredients is one of the most significant and widespread forms of pollution on Earth. Medicines can have a negative impact on ecosystems, and contamination can have unpredictable consequences. An urgent and unexplored task is to study the Lake Baikal ecosystem and its organisms for the presence of trace concentrations of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Our study aimed to conduct a qualitative analysis of active pharmaceutical ingredients, and quantitative analysis of ibuprofen in endemic amphipods of Lake Baikal, using methods of high-performance liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin), ibuprofen, acetaminophen, azithromycin, dimetridazole, metronidazole, amikacin, spiramycin, and some tetracycline antibiotics were detected in the studied littoral amphipods. We also detected different annual loads of active pharmaceutical ingredients on amphipods. Using the multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode mentioned in GOST International Technical Standards, we detected molecules, fragmented as amikacin, chlortetracycline, doxycycline, oxytetracycline, dimetridazole, metronidazole and spiramycin. Thus, we first revealed that invertebrates of Lake Baikal can uptake pharmaceutical contaminants in the environment.

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Title
Detection of Pharmaceutical Contamination in Amphipods of Lake Baikal by the HPLC-MS Method
Author
Telnova, Tamara Y  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Morgunova, Maria M  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Shashkina, Sophie S  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vlasova, Anfisa A  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dmitrieva, Maria E  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Shelkovnikova, Victoria N  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Malygina, Ekaterina V  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Imidoeva, Natalia A  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Belyshenko, Alexander Y  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Konovalov, Alexander S  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Misharina, Evgenia A; Axenov-Gribanov, Denis V  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
First page
738
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20796382
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3097799369
Copyright
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.