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As an interface between an individual and its environment, the skin is a major site of direct exposure to exogenous substances. Once absorbed, these substances may interact with different biomolecules within the skin. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) signaling pathway is one mechanism whereby the skin responds to exposures, predominantly through the induction or upregulation of metabolizing enzymes. One known physiological role of the AhR in many tissues is its involvement in the control of cell cycle progression. In skin, almost nothing is known about this physiological function. Moreover, the question whether frequently used naturally occurring phenolic derivatives like eugenol and isoeugenol impact on the AhR within the skin has rarely been studied so far. Eugenol and isoeugenol are due to their odour referred to as fragrances. The ubiquitous distribution of eugenol and isoeugenol results in an almost unavoidable contact with these substances in our daily lives. Despite this fact, their molecular mechanisms of action in skin are poorly understood. There is evidence supporting the hypothesis that these substances may impact on the AhR. On the one hand, eugenol is shown to induce cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1), a well-known target gene of the AhR. On the other hand, their known anti-proliferative properties might also be mediated by the AhR, based on its physiological function. In order to proof this hypothesis, it was investigated whether eugenol and isoeugenol impact on the AhR signaling pathway in skin cells. Results revealed that eugenol as well as isoeugenol impact on the AhR signaling pathway in skin cells. Both substances caused the translocation of the AhR into the nucleus, induced the expression of the well-known AhR target genes CYP1A1 and AhR repressor (AhRR) and exhibited impact on cell cycle progression. Both substances caused an AhR-dependent cell cycle arrest in skin cells, modulated protein levels of several cell cycle regulatory proteins, inhibited DNA synthesis and thereby reduced cell numbers. The comparison of wildtype cells to AhR knockdown cells revealed an influence of the AhR on cell cycle progression in skin cells in the absence of exogenous ligands. AhR knockdown cells exhibited a slower progression through the cell cycle caused by an accumulation of cells in the G0/G1 phase of the cell cycle and a decreased DNA synthesis rate. Modulation of cell cycle regulatory proteins involved in the transition from the G0/G1 to the S phase of the cell cycle was altered in AhR knockdown cells as well. To conclude, eugenol as well as isoeugenol were able to impact on the AhR signaling pathway in skin cells. Their molecular mechanisms of action are similar to those of classical AhR ligands, although their structural characteristics strongly differ from that of these ligands. In the absence of exogenous ligands the AhR promotes cell cycle progression in many tissues and this knowledge could be expanded on skin-derived cells within the scope of this thesis.
The skin is continuously challenged by environmental antigens that may penetrate and elicit a skin sensitization, which can develop into allergic contact dermatitis. Medical treatment for allergic contact dermatitis is limited - in fact only acute symptoms can be cured and for secondary prevention of the disease a lifelong avoidance of the allergen(s) is necessary. Therefore, the screening of the sensitization potential of substance used in commercially available products is indispensable to prevent such diseases. Hence, risk assessment is deduced from data obtained by murine local lymph node assay predominantly, but there exists a need to develop methods capable of providing the same information that do not require the use of animals in view of legislative initiatives such as REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization of chemicals) as well as the 7th Amendment to the Cosmetics Directive (2003/15/EC). Therefore, a number of promising in silico and in vitro approaches are being developed to address this need. In vitro test systems using the response of dendritic cells, which are the key player in the elicitation process of contact dermatitis, are established, but, although these novel methods for hazard identification might find application in the context of screening, it is not clear whether these approaches are useful for the purposes of risk assessment and risk management to predict allergic potency. Therefore, it was investigated whether on the one hand in vitro generated dendritic cells from primary blood monocytes (MoDC) and on the other hand a continuous monocytic cell line, the THP-1 cells, suggested as dendritic cell surrogate, react to a presumably weak allergen. Ascaridol, predicted as one of the possible causes for tea tree oil contact dermatitis, was studied and its effects in these two in vitro skin sensitization models were explored. Thus, the surface expression of CD86, HLADR, CD54, and CD40, which are known as activation markers in both in vitro models, were measured via flow cytometry. For MoDC, an augmented CD86 and HLADR surface expression in comparison to untreated cells were determined after 24 h exposure with ascaridol. An increased CD54 and CD40 surface expression were found only in some donors. After long term incubation of 96 h, ascaridol-treated MoDC still up-regulated CD86 and additionally an augmented CD40 expression was measured in all studied donors. An enhanced CD54 expression was determined for 50 percentage of all investigated donors. Furthermore, CD80, CD83 and CD209 protein expression were up-regulated in MoDC after 96 h of ascaridol incubation. In addition, it was determined that after 24 h ascaridol-treated MoDC showed an increased capacity to uptake antigens, whereas after 96 h this capacity got lost and antigen-capturing devices were reduced in comparison to non-treated MoDC. Moreover, the cytokine release of ascaridol-treated MoDC were measured after 24 h. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)alpha, interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL 6 secretion were determined in some donors. Furthermore, IL-8 release was clearly increased after 24 h ascaridol treatment. By the same token, THP-1 cells were analyzed after ascaridol treatment for several activation markers. We found a similar response pattern as measured in MoDC. Ascaridol induced CD86 expression as well as CD54 after 24 h incubation. Additionally, the impact of ascaridol on phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase, which had been shown to be involved in increased expression of activation markers like CD86 by others, were studied via Western blot analysis. A phosphorylation of p38 was determined after 15 min of ascaridol stimulation. Moreover, an augmented CD40 and HLADR surface expression were measured in a dose-response manner after 24 h ascaridol treatment. Also similar to MoDC an enhanced IL-8 secretion after ascaridol stimulation was observed in THP-1 cells. Hence, for the first time it was shown that ascaridol has immuno-modulating effects. The obtained data from both in vitro systems, MoDC and THP-1 cells, identified ascaridol as a sensitizer. Although for both systems there remain significant challenges to overcome for potency assessment, ascaridol is presumed to be a weak sensitizer probably. Interestingly, ascaridol treatment of THP-1 cells resulted also in an increased augmentation of CD184 and CCR2, two chemokine receptors expressed on monocyte. Therefore, these data encouraged the exploration of chemokine receptors as tools in skin sensitization prediction. Consequently, the combination of chemical assays with in vitro techniques may provide a useful surrogate to animal testing for skin sensitization. Due to the continuously changing environmental conditions, it is necessary to regularly monitor and update the spectrum of sensitizers that elicit contact dermatitis. Therefore, both debated in vitro test systems will become indispensable tools.
Evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the most important variables in hydrological studies. In the ET process, energy exchange and water transfer are involved. ET consists of transpiration and evaporation. The amount of plants transpiration dominates in ET. Especially in the forest regions, the ratio of transpiration to ET is in general 80-90 %. Meteorological variables, vegetation properties, precipitation and soil moisture are critical influence factors for ET generation. The study area is located in the forest area of Nahe catchment (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany). The Nahe catchment is highly wooded. About 54.6 % of this area is covered by forest, with deciduous forest and coniferous forest are two primary types. A hydrological model, WaSiM-ETH, was employed for a long-term simulation from 1971-2003 in the Nahe catchment. In WaSiM-ETH, the potential evapotranspiration (ETP) was firstly calculated by the Penman-Monteith equation, and subsequently reduced according to the soil water content to obtain the actual evapotranspiration (ETA). The Penman-Monteith equation has been widely used and recommended for ETP estimation. The difficulties in applying this equation are the high demand of ground-measured meteorological data and the determination of surface resistance. A method combined remote sensing images with ground-measured meteorological data was also used to retrieve the ETA. This method is based on the surface properties such as surface albedo, fractional vegetation cover (FVC) and land surface temperature (LST) to obtain the latent heat flux (LE, corresponding to ETA) through the surface energy balance equation. LST is a critical variable for surface energy components estimation. It was retrieved from the TM/ETM+ thermal infrared (TIR) band. Due to the high-quality and cloudy-free requirements for TM/ETM+ data selection as well as the overlapping cycle of TM/ETM+ sensor is 16 days, images on only five dates are available during 1971-2003 (model ran) " May 15, 2000, July 05, 2001, July 19, August 04 and September 21 in 2003. It is found that the climate conditions of 2000, 2001 and 2003 are wet, medium wet and dry, respectively. Therefore, the remote sensing-retrieved observations are noncontinuous in a limited number over time but contain multiple climate conditions. Aerodynamic resistance and surface resistance are two most important parameters in the Penman-Monteith equation. However, for forest area, the aerodynamic resistance is calculated by a function of wind speed in the model. Since transpiration and evaporation are separately calculated by the Penman-Monteith equation in the model, the surface resistance was divided into canopy surface resistance rsc and soil surface resistance rse. rsc is related to the plants transpiration and rse is related to the bare soil evaporation. The interception evaporation was not taken into account due to its negligible contribution to ET rate under a dry-canopy (no rainfall) condition. Based on the remote sensing-retrieved observations, rsc and rse were calibrated in the WaSiM-ETH model for both forest types: for deciduous forest, rsc = 150 sm−1, rse = 250 sm−1; for coniferous forest, rsc = 300 sm−1, rse = 650 sm−1. We also carried out sensitivity analysis on rsc and rse. The appropriate value ranges of rsc and rse were determined as (annual maximum): for deciduous forest, [100,225] sm−1 for rsc and [50,450] sm−1 for rse; for coniferous forest, [225,375] sm−1 for rsc and [350,1200] sm−1 for rse. Due to the features of the observations that are in a limited number but contain multiple climate conditions, the statistical indices for model performance evaluation are required to be sensitive to extreme values. In this study, boxplots were found to well exhibit the model performance at both spatial and temporal scale. Nush-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE), RMSE-observations standard deviation ratio (RSR), percent bias (PBIAS), mean bias error (MBE), mean variance of error distribution (S2d), index of agreement (d), root mean square error (RMSE) were found as appropriate statistical indices to provide additional evaluation information to the boxplots. The model performance can be judged as satisfactory if NSE > 0.5, RSR ≤ 0.7, PBIAS < -±12, MBE < -±0.45, S2d < 1.11, d > 0.79, RMSE < 0.97. rsc played a more important role than rse in ETP and ETA estimation by the Penman-Monteith equation, which is attributed to the fact that transpiration dominates in ET. The ETP estimation was found the most correlated to the relative humidity (RH), followed by air temperature (T), relative sunshine duration (SSD) and wind speed (WS). Under wet or medium wet climate conditions, ETA estimation was found the most correlated to T, followed by RH, SSD and WS. Under a water-stress condition, there were very small correlations between ETA and each meteorological variable.
The study analyzes the long-term trends (1998–2019) of concentrations of the air pollutants ozone (O3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) as well as meteorological conditions at forest sites in German midrange mountains to evaluate changes in O3 uptake conditions for trees over time at a plot scale. O3 concentrations did not show significant trends over the course of 22 years, unlike NO2 and NO, whose concentrations decreased significantly since the end of the 1990s. Temporal analyses of meteorological parameters found increasing global radiation at all sites and decreasing precipitation, vapor pressure deficit (VPD), and wind speed at most sites (temperature did not show any trend). A principal component analysis revealed strong correlations between O3 concentrations and global radiation, VPD, and temperature. Examination of the atmospheric water balance, a key parameter for O3 uptake, identified some unusually hot and dry years (2003, 2011, 2018, and 2019). With the help of a soil water model, periods of plant water stress were detected. These periods were often in synchrony with periods of elevated daytime O3 concentrations and usually occurred in mid and late summer, but occasionally also in spring and early summer. This suggests that drought protects forests against O3 uptake and that, in humid years with moderate O3 concentrations, the O3 flux was higher than in dry years with higher O3 concentrations.
Veterinary antibiotics are released to arable agricultural soil together with manure, including nutrients, organic matter, and microorganisms. Previously, the effects of antibiotic-contaminated manure on soil microbial community activity, function, structure, and resistance have been reported under controlled experimental conditions. This thesis further evaluated the antimicrobial effects as influenced by different manure compositions, soil microhabitats and moisture regimes, plants, and different distances to roots. Microbial community responses were determined by phenotypic phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) and genotypic 16S rRNA gene fragment analyses. (Chapter 3) demonstrates that medication of pigs with difloxacin (DIF) and sulfadiazine (SDZ) alters the molecular-chemical pattern of slurries, confounding the detection of a consistent antibiotic effect in bulk and respective rhizosphere soil. This was evaluated in a 63-day mesocosm experiment considering typical agricultural manure applications to maize planted soil. Fecal bacteria were detected even 14 days after manure amendment. Manure of DIF- and SDZ-medicated pigs clearly affected the microbial community in mesocosm bulk and rhizosphere soil, temporarily matching antibiotic effects reported in previous studies. (Chapter 4) discusses the influences of different soil microhabitats on antibiotic fate and the effects on soil microflora. Total extractable SDZ was more than two-fold larger in earthworm burrows and soil macroaggregate surfaces compared to bulk soil or the interior fraction of aggregates. Furthermore, soil microbial communities were affected by a combination of soil microhabitat and treatment, which was reflected by different structural and functional community responses to SDZ in laboratory and under field conditions. (Chapter 5) evaluates if SDZ effects on microbial communities are more pronounced in soils which undergo periodic changes in soil moisture by drying-rewetting dynamics compared to soils without such moisture fluctuations. This was tested in a 49-day climate chamber soil pot experiment grown with grass. Manure-amended pots without or with SDZ contamination were incubated under a dynamic moisture regime with repeated drying and rewetting changes of more than twenty percent maximum water holding capacity compared to the control moisture regime. The microbial biomass, but less pronouncedly the community structure, showed an increased responsiveness to the combined stress of SDZ and dynamic moisture changes in the laboratory. Similar responses were documented under field conditions. (Chapter 6) indicated adverse effects of SDZ on root geotropism, number of lateral roots, and water uptake by plants in a 40-day greenhouse experiment with willow and maize grown in soil with environmentally relevant and worst-case antibiotic contamination. (Chapter 7) showed that the associated microbial community responded to a combination of plant species, distance to the root, and antibiotic spiking concentration. In highly antibiotic-contaminated soils, the structural and functional responses of the microbial community were dominated by indirect antibiotic effects on plants and roots.
Roof and wall slates are fine-grained rocks with slaty cleavage, and it is often difficult to determine their mineral composition. A new norm mineral calculation called slatecalculation allows the determination of a virtual mineral composition based on full chemical analysis, including the amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon (C), and sulfur (S). Derived norm minerals include feldspars, carbonates, micas, hydro-micas, chlorites, ore-minerals, and quartz. The mineral components of the slate are assessed with superior accuracy compared to the petrographic analysis based on the European Standard EN 12326. The inevitable methodical inaccuracies in the calculations are limited and transparent. In the present paper, slates, shales, and phyllites from worldwide occurrences were examined. This also gives an overview of the rocks used for discontinuous roofing and external cladding.
Climate change is expected to cause mountain species to shift their ranges to higher elevations. Due to the decreasing amounts of habitats with increasing elevation, such shifts are likely to increase their extinction risk. Heterogeneous mountain topography, however, may reduce this risk by providing microclimatic conditions that can buffer macroclimatic warming or provide nearby refugia. As aspect strongly influences the local microclimate, we here assess whether shifts from warm south-exposed aspects to cool north-exposed aspects in response to climate change can compensate for an upward shift into cooler elevations.
In order to discuss potential sustainability issues of expanding silage maize cultivation in Rhineland-Palatinate, spatially explicit monitoring is necessary. Publicly available statistical records are often not a sufficient basis for extensive research, especially on soil health, where risk factors like erosion and compaction depend on variables that are specific to every site, and hard to generalize for larger administrative aggregates. The focus of this study is to apply established classification algorithms to estimate maize abundance for each independent pixel, while at the same time accounting for their spatial relationship. Therefore, two ways to incorporate spatial autocorrelation of neighboring pixels are combined with three different classification models. The performance of each of these modeling approaches is analyzed and discussed. Finally, one prediction approach is applied to the imagery, and the overall predicted acreage is compared to publicly available data. We were able to show that Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification and Random Forests (RF) were able to distinguish maize pixels reliably, with kappa values well above 0.9 in most cases. The Generalized Linear Model (GLM) performed substantially worse. Furthermore, Regression Kriging (RK) as an approach to integrate spatial autocorrelation into the prediction model is not suitable in use cases with millions of sparsely clustered training pixels. Gaussian Blur is able to improve predictions slightly in these cases, but it is possible that this is only because it smoothes out impurities of the reference data. The overall prediction with RF classification combined with Gaussian Blur performed well, with out of bag error rates of 0.5% in 2009 and 1.3% in 2016. Despite the low error rates, there is a discrepancy between the predicted acreage and the official records, which is 20% in 2009 and 27% in 2016.
The collapse of the tailings pond of the Aznalcállar open pit mine (West of Seville, Spain) in April 1998 left more than 4000 ha of arable land and floodplains contaminated with heavy metal containing pyrite sludge. After a first remediation campaign a considerable contamination remained in the soil. The present study evaluates the possibilities of reflectance spectroscopy and airborne hyperspectral remote sensing for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of heavy metal contamination and the acidification risk related to the mining accident. Based on an extensive data set consisting of geochemical analyses and reflectance measurements of more than 300 soil samples different chemometrics methods (multiple linear regression, partial least squares and artificial neural networks) are tested for computation of concentrations of soil constituents on the basis of the spectral reflectance. Spectral mixture analysis is applied for the analysis of the spatial distribution of the contamination. The abundance information derived from spectral mixture analysis is turned into quantitative information incorporating an artificial mixture experiment. The results of this experiment provide a link between sludge abundance and sludge weight, allowing as a consequence calculation of the amount of residual sludge per pixel, the acidification potential and other parameters important for remediation planning. The application of laboratory, field and imaging spectroscopy for providing quantitative information about the contamination levels in their spatial context is a good complement to conventional methods. The advantage is the reduction of the time and labour-intensive geochemical analysis, because after the model calibration, further samples can be analysed directly with the chemometric models. Furthermore, the spatial distribution can be mapped with imaging spectroscopy data helping in a more precise remediation planning.
Measurements of dust emissions and the modeling of dissipation dynamics and total values are related to great uncertainties. Agricultural activity, especially soil cultivation, may be an essential component to calculate and model local and regional dust dynamics and even connect to the global dust cycle. To budget total dust and to assess the impact of tillage, measurement of mobilized and transported dust is an essential but rare basis. In this study, a simple measurement concept with Modified Wilson and Cook samplers was applied for dust measurements on a small temporal and spatial scale on steep-slope vineyards in the Moselle area. Without mechanical impact, a mean horizontal flux of 0.01 g m2 min−1 was measured, while row tillage produced a mean horizontal flux of 5.92 g m2 min−1 of mobilized material and 4.18 g m2 min−1 emitted dust from site (=soil loss). Compared on this singular-event basis, emissions during tillage operations generated 99.89% of total emitted dust from the site under low mean wind velocities. The results also indicate a differing impact of specific cultivation operations, mulching, and tillage tools as well as the additional influence of environmental conditions, with highest emissions on dry soil and with additional wind impact. The dust source function is strongly associated with cultivation operations, implying highly dynamic but also regular and thus predictable and projectable emission peaks of total suspended particles. Detailed knowledge of the effects of mechanical impulses and reliable quantification of the local dust emission inventory are a basis for analysis of risk potential and choice of adequate management options.