Jacob Smoot, Stephanie Padilla, Yong Ho Kim, Deborah Hunter, Alan Tennant, Bridgett Hill, Morgan Lowery, Bridget R Knapp, Wendy Oshiro, Mehdi S Hazari, Michael D Hays, William T Preston, Ilona Jaspers, M Ian Gilmour, Aimen K Farraj
Combustion of mixed materials during open air burning of refuse or structural fires in the wildland urban interface produces emissions that worsen air quality, contaminate rivers and streams, and cause poor health outcomes including developmental effects. The zebrafish, a freshwater fish, is a useful model for quickly screening the toxicological and developmental effects of agents in such species and elicits biological responses that are often analogous and predictive of responses in mammals. The purpose of this study was to compare the developmental toxicity of smoke derived from the burning of 5 different burn pit-related material types (plywood, cardboard, plastic, a mixture of the three, and the mixture plus diesel fuel as an accelerant) in zebrafish larvae...
April 30, 2024: Heliyon