An integrated approach with the zebrafish model for biomonitoring of municipal wastewater effluent and receiving waters

Assessment of Health Risks Associated with Contaminants in Groundwater in the Catchment Area of Selected Dumpsites in Abuja, North Central Nigeria

“…The results in Table 3 revealed that the risk involved for an adult to contract cancer is something to be worried about. The results belong to Grade VI which means one out of every one thousand adults that take from any of the sampled waters is at a very high risk of contracting cancer 14 .…”

Improving the assessment of polluted sites using an integrated bio-physico-chemical monitoring framework

“…Experiments may be conducted in bioassays / mesocosms designed on simplifications of the natural environment, to control for the complexities of real-world field conditions. Monitoring the modification to the organisms behaviour provides an early warning of potentially significant ecological disturbances that may follow due to increasing contaminant / pollution levels (Cavusoglu et al 2010;Bilal et al 2016;Li et al 2018;Bonnail et al 2019;Hybská et al 2020).…”

“…Toxicity monitoring is widely applied using fish, macroinvertebrates, bryophytes and macrophytes (Li et al 2018;Bonnail et al 2019;Hybská et al 2020;). Ecosystem monitoring is comparatively less popular in terms of toxicity and sensitivity but has the ability to demonstrate the ecological significance and effects in the natural environment.…”

O Modelo Zebrafish e sua Contribuição ao Meio Ambiente

“…A avaliação toxicológica por microarray de efluentes descartados de duas plantas de tratamento de água na cidade de Pima no Arizona (EUA) feita expondo diretamente embriões de zebrafish selvagens ou transgênicos às águas revelou alterações na expressão de genes relacionados ao ciclo celular, metabolismo, sistemas nervoso, cardiovascular, hematológico, reprodutivo e hepático (Li et al,. 2018).…”