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Controlled antimony exposure (Sb, 2 μg/L) in Patella vulgata leads to selective Sb accumulation exclusively in the digestive gland, with mean levels rising to 0.42 μg/g and hotspots to 5.3 μg/g.
- Why it matters: Bulk biomonitoring in coastal ecosystems can miss where contaminants localize within organisms, limiting interpretation of uptake, storage, and sequestration dynamics.
- What they did: The study used quantitative, spatially resolved multi-element imaging with LA-ICP-TOFMS to map elemental distributions across organs and within digestive gland microdomains in exposed Patella vulgata.
- The result: Spatially resolved elemental imaging shows that Patella vulgata can record elevated Sb exposure patterns at microanatomical resolution, supporting biomonitoring beyond bulk tissue measurements.
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