Heavy metals and proteins interactions in marine benthic bivalves
Abstract
The pollution of the marine environment from human activities increased during the past decades, with serious consequences to ecosystems and humans. Heavy metals are major pollutants, some of which (e.g. Ni, Fe, Cu) in small concentrations assist in the organisms’ metabolism, while others do not (e.g. Cd, Cr, Hg, Pb, etc.). Organisms have developed defense mechanisms to minimize the effects of toxic metals to them. A multiparametric study is very important in order to understand the toxicity mechanisms of heavy metals in each organism as well as the defense mechanisms organisms have developed in order to evaluate the ''health'' of ecosystems. This Thesis aims to study the effect of heavy metals in benthic organisms and particularly the development of their defense mechanisms. During its implementation, experiments were performed with different organisms (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Callista chione, Venus verrucosa) which were collected from their natural environment, cultivated in aquar ...
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