ECOTOXICOLOGICAL STUDIES TO ASSESS SAFETY LEVEL OF LEAD (Pb) ALONG THE CHENNAI COAST
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The presence of toxic chemicals in the marine environment has long been recognized as a potential threat to the health of the oceans and coasts. The oceans are the repository for many chemicals of anthropogenic origin. Research in marine toxicology ultimately seeks to monitor and predict the effects of a toxicant and to understand how environmental pollutants might be endangering marine species. The analysis of biological damages (biochemical and histology) in conjunction with other endpoints provides the evaluation of new insights that could help the interpretation of the effects of contaminants on aquatic organisms.
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Heavy metal accumulation in certain marine animals along the East Coast of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Heavy metals disposed through anthropogenic activities find their way into the oceans and seas through the rivers or through direct fall out from factory effluents. These heavy metals resuspend back into the water column along with the sediments and are known to affect the marine animals. Marine animals like fish, prawn, crab and mussel were collected along the East Coast (off Pulicat lake to C...
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