Paukert J, Obrusník I
J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol. 1986;30(1):27-32.
We made the INAA of hair of the common hare (Lepus europaeus Pall.) and of the common vole (Microtus arvalis Pall.) living in the emission zones. Both the hare and the vole are almost exclusively herbivores; they consume relatively large amounts of contaminated food and mirror reliably the contamination degree of the respective ecosystem. The use of free-living animals for the control of the environmental quality may complete effectively the information obtained by examination of habitants. Though the free-living animals lead a rather different way of existence it has been found that the analyses of their hair correlate very well with the analyses of human hair. It may be expected that the changes of concentrations of heavy metals will manifest themselves earlier in animals than in men, because the animals are strictly tied to the local food sources. The hair samples of hares contained increased concentrations of Sm, La, Au, As, Se, Cr, Sc, Fe, Ce, Th and Co. The hair of voles showed increased concentrations of Sm, La, Zn, As, Se, Cr, Sc, Fe, Sb, Ce, Cs and Co. A conspicuous trend towards the cumulation in hair was observed in the following elements: As, Se, Sc and Fe. The increase of their concentrations in the hair of animals from the emission regions amounted as such as to 10(3)%.
我们对生活在排放区域的草兔（Lepus europaeus Pall.）和普通田鼠（Microtus arvalis Pall.）的毛发进行了仪器中子活化分析。草兔和田鼠几乎都是食草动物；它们食用相对大量的受污染食物，并能可靠地反映各自生态系统的污染程度。利用自由生活的动物来控制环境质量，可以有效地完善通过检测栖息地所获得的信息。尽管自由生活的动物有着截然不同的生存方式，但已发现对它们毛发的分析与对人类毛发的分析相关性非常好。由于动物严格依赖当地的食物来源，可以预期重金属浓度的变化在动物身上会比在人类身上更早显现出来。草兔的毛发样本中钐、镧、金、砷、硒、铬、钪、铁、铈、钍和钴的浓度增加。田鼠的毛发中钐、镧、锌、砷、硒、铬、钪、铁、锑、铈、铯和钴的浓度增加。在以下元素中观察到毛发中有明显的累积趋势：砷、硒、钪和铁。来自排放区域的动物毛发中这些元素的浓度增加幅度高达10³%。
