Suspicion of immunodegradation in Organotin 1998.10.15

Professors of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University announced the results of the research that organotin compounds such as tributyltin (TBT) used in ship paints may degrade the immune function of marine mammals such as dolphins and seals. It strongly suppresses proliferation by adding TBT such as over 100PPP to lymphocytes involved in immune function ingested from seven heads, such as bottlenose dolphins. The view that it is affecting the mass death of the virus infection of the mammal of the sea successive from the 1970s.