TY - JOUR A1 - Almeida, Ângela A1 - Calisto, Vânia A1 - Domingues, M. Rosário M. A1 - Esteves, Valdemar I. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf A1 - Soares, Amadeu M.V.M. A1 - Figueira, Etelvina A1 - Freitas, Rosa T1 - Comparison of the toxicological impacts of carbamazepine and a mixture of its photodegradation products in Scrobicularia plana N2 - In the aquatic environment, pharmaceutical drugs are submitted to degradation processes, where pho-todegradation is one of the most important mechanisms affecting the fate, persistence and toxicity of thecompounds. Carbamazepine, a widely used antiepileptic, is known to suffer photodegradation in waterbodies and generate photoproducts, some of them with higher potential toxicity than the parent com-pound. Therefore, to evaluate the toxic effects of CBZ when combined with its photoproducts, an acuteexposure (96 h) with the edible clam Scrobicularia plana was performed using environmental concentra-tions of CBZ (0.00–9.00 µg/L) irradiated (and non-irradiated) with simulated solar radiation. The analysisof the irradiated CBZ solutions by mass spectrometry revealed the formation of 5 photoproducts, includ-ing acridine (a compound known to be carcinogenic). Oxidative stress results showed that the exposureto CBZ photoproducts did not increase the toxicity to clams, by comparison with the parent compound. KW - Pharmaceutical drugs KW - Photodegradation KW - Biomarkers KW - Oxidative stress KW - Bivalves PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2016.05.009 VL - 323 SP - 220 EP - 232 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-39151 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -