Excess of REE in plant foods as a cause of geophagy in animals in the Teletskoye Lake basin, Altai Republic, Russia

Panichev,Alexander M.; Baranovskaya,Nataliya V.; Seryodkin,Ivan V.; Chekryzhov,Igor Y.; Vakh,Elena A.; Kalinkin,Yury V.; Lutsenko,Tatyana N.; Popov,Nikita Yu.; Ruslan,Alexey V.; Ostapenko,Dmitry S.; Еlоvskiy,Еvgeny V.; Vetoshkina,Alena V.; Patrusheva,Olga V.; Makarevich,Raisa A.; Manakov,Yury A.; Kholodov,Aleksei S.; Spandidos,Demetrios A.; Tsatsakis,Aristidis; Golokhvast,Кirill Sergeevich

doi:10.3892/wasj.2022.183

Excess of REE in plant foods as a cause of geophagy in animals in the Teletskoye Lake basin, Altai Republic, Russia

Authors:
- Alexander M. Panichev
- Nataliya V. Baranovskaya
- Ivan V. Seryodkin
- Igor Y. Chekryzhov
- Elena A. Vakh
- Yury V. Kalinkin
- Tatyana N. Lutsenko
- Nikita Yu. Popov
- Alexey V. Ruslan
- Dmitry S. Ostapenko
- Еvgeny V. Еlоvskiy
- Alena V. Vetoshkina
- Olga V. Patrusheva
- Raisa A. Makarevich
- Yury A. Manakov
- Aleksei S. Kholodov
- Demetrios A. Spandidos
- Aristidis Tsatsakis
- Кirill Sergeevich Golokhvast
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Affiliations: Pacific Geographical Institute of The Far Eastern Branch of The Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), Vladivostok 690014, Russian Federation, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk 634050, Russian Federation, Pacific Geographical Institute of The Far Eastern Branch of The Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), Vladivostok 690014, Russian Federation, Far East Geological Institute of The Far Eastern Branch of The Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), Vladivostok 690022, Russian Federation, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok 690922, Russian Federation, Altai State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Gorno‑Altaisk 649000, Russian Federation, Siberian Federal Scientific Center for Agrobiotechnology of The Russian Academy of Sciences (SFSCA RAS), Krasnoobsk 630501, Russian Federation, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece, Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Medicine, University of Crete, 73100 Heraklion, Greece
Published online on: December 19, 2022 https://doi.org/10.3892/wasj.2022.183
Article Number: 6
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Abstract

Geological and hydrobiogeochemical studies carried out in two areas in the Teletskoye Lake basin in the Altai Mountains suggest that geophagy among wild and domestic herbivores in the studied areas develops in mountain‑taiga with steppe landscapes on Proterozoic metamorphic rocks near the Paleozoic granitoids with high concentrations of magmatogenic minerals of rare earth elements (REE). This fact is the reason for high concentrations of REE in loose diluvial deposits and glacial deposits adjacent to granitoids, as well as in derivative soils and vegetation. REE concentrations in the vegetation of the studied territories were almost similar to the geophagy sites previously investigated in the Sikhote‑Alin. The geochemical specificity of landscapes revealed both in the Altai Mountains and in the Sikhote‑Alin may be the cause of REE imbalance in the hormonal system of the body. It forces animals to address the resulting problems with mineral sorbents of the quartz‑feldspar‑illite‑chlorite type which can remove the excess of REE from the body. When selecting these, the animals tend to find sodium‑enriched varieties if possible.

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