1. Eliciting heavy metal contamination on selected native organisms from Cochin estuary using contemporary biomarker approach
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S.R. Marigoudar, D. Mohan, P. R. Jayachandran, N.D. Don Xavier, S. Bijoy Nandan, and Kariyil Veettil Neethu
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Veterinary medicine ,geography ,Metal contamination ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,biology ,Chemistry ,Estuary ,Contamination ,biology.organism_classification ,Hazard quotient ,Villorita cyprinoides ,Bioaccumulation ,Etroplus suratensis ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Biomarker (medicine) - Abstract
The accumulation trends of Cu, Zn, Pb and Ni and their effects on two native species, Etroplus suratensis and Villorita cyprinoides from Cochin estuary and their biomarker responses were explored. Bioaccumulation and metal selectivity index (MSI) in E. suratensis for gill and liver showed the highest accumulation for Zn (209.33 ± 17.14 mg kg−1) followed by Cu (64.16 ± 8.07 mg kg−1), while in V. cyprinoides Cu showed the highest accumulation (80.78 ± 6.92 mg kg−1) in gill tissue followed by Zn (65.28 ± 7.06 mg kg−1). Histological alterations were evaluated in gill and liver tissues of E. suratensis using histopathological index (Ih) method. Lamellar hyperplasia and deformed lamellar architecture were the evident changes in gill tissue, while the alterations in liver tissues were marked by the presence of melanomacrophage centers and necrotic lesions in liver parenchyma. The high target hazard quotient (THQ) obtained for Pb (0.94) indicated that the daily consumption of aquatic products contaminated with metals Pb, Cu and Zn has obvious health risk to human consumption. Thus, the elevated metal accumulation rate in the tissues with supportive histological changes suggests that these alterations can serve as definite signature of heavy metal contamination in native organisms of Cochin estuary.
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- 2021
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