Determining the heavy metal levels of malleus and incus by optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES).

Öcal H., UNUR E., Leblebici Z., Susar H.

Joint Meeting of Anatomical Societies, Turkey, 1 - 04 May 2011, vol.5, pp.168, (Full Text)

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Volume: 5
  • Country: Turkey
  • Page Numbers: pp.168
  • Erciyes University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

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Determining the heavy metal levels of malleus and

incus by optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)

Ocal H*, Unur E*, Leblebici Z**, Susar H*

Department of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, Erciyes University, Kayseri,

Turkey*; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Erciyes University,

Kayseri, Turkey****

There are three mobile auditory ossicles (malleus, incus,

stapes) between the ear membrane in middle ear and inner ear.

We used 10 malleus and 10 incus in our study. We obtained

these bones from bone collection and cadaver those used for

education of Erciyes University in Faculty of Medicine in

Anatomy department. We determined the heavy metal content

of the ossicles (ferrum, zinc, cadmium, copper, nickel, lead,

manganese) by optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES).

Heavy metal analysis processes have been carried out in the

Ecology Laboratuary of Erciyes University in Science Faculty

in Biology Department by the Liberty ICP-OES Sequential

device called Varian. 0.5 grams of powdered samples were

brought ossicles taken by adding 10 ml 65% HNO3 CEMMarsh

5(CEM Corporation Mathews) was dissolved in

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microwave sample-solving device. We drew calibration charts

for each element. We read each sample for three times.

According to the heavy metal analysis processes, these heavy

metal contents have been determined in malleus as below; ferrum

0.3060-0.2987 μg g-1, zinc 0.2503-0.1143 μg g-1, cadmium

0.0028-0.0007 μg g-1, lead 0.0483-0.0125 μg g-1, copper

0.0334-0.0092 μg g-1, manganese 0.0121-0.0214 μg g-1, nickel

0.0129-0.0045 μg g-1. These heavy metal contents have been

determined in incus as below; ferrum 0.1902-0.1216 μg g-1,

zinc 0.2572-0.1214 μg g-1, cadmium 0.0021-0.0006 μg g-1,

lead 0.0385-0.0061 μg g-1, copper 0.0273-0.0053 μg g-1, manganese

0.0043-0.0045 μg g-1, nickel 0.0129-0.0045 μg g-

1.Other research results are much higher at levels than ours.

And this situation indicates that there are no heavy metal dirtiness

in the malleus and incus that we made analysis.