Histopathological baseline levels and confounding factors in common sole (Solea solea) for marine environmental risk assessment

Cuevas, N.; Zorita, Izaskun; Costa, Pedro M.; Larreta, Joana; Franco, Javier

doi:10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.09.002

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“…Gill and liver damage was assessed using standard histological techniques (Fernandes andMazon, 2003, Bernet et al, 1999;Costa et al, 2011;Cuevas et al, 2015;van Dyk et al, 2007).…”

Section: Cellular Level: Histopathological Alterations Of the Gills And Livermentioning

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High temperature aggravates the effects of pesticides in goldfish

Jacquin

Gandar

Aguirre-Smith

et al. 2019

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

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In human-altered rivers, fish are often conjointly exposed to an increase in water temperature due to global warming and to contamination by organic pollutants such as pesticides, but their combined effects are still elusive. Thermal and chemical stressors could potentially interact because high temperature increases metabolism and toxicant uptake, and can alter the ability of organisms to set up adequate stress responses and to maintain homeostasis. These combined stressors could thus potentially result in higher level of molecular and cellular damage, and stronger effects on behavior and physiology, but experimental evidence across biological levels is still scarce. In this study, goldfish Carassius auratus were experimentally exposed to an environmentally realistic cocktail of pesticides (S-metolachlor, isoproturon, linuron, atrazinedesethyl, aclonifen, pendimethalin and tebuconazol) commonly found in rivers of South-West of France at low or high dose in two different thermal conditions: a common summer temperature (22°C) or a high temperature recorded during heat waves (32°C). Results showed that high temperature alone caused behavioral and physiological changes (increased swimming activity, increased hepatosomatic index, decreased reproductive index) but limited cellular damage. However, high temperature aggravated the effects of pesticides at the molecular and cellular level. Indeed, pesticide exposure resulted in higher genotoxic effects (micronuclei rate) and irreversible cellular damage of the gills and liver (apoptosis, inflammation, necrosis) at 32°C compared to 22°C. This suggests potential synergic effects of climate change and pollution, and highlights the need for multiple stress approaches to better predict the impacts of human activities on aquatic wildlife.

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“…Gill and liver damage was assessed using standard histological techniques (Fernandes andMazon, 2003, Bernet et al, 1999;Costa et al, 2011;Cuevas et al, 2015;van Dyk et al, 2007).…”

Section: Cellular Level: Histopathological Alterations Of the Gills And Livermentioning

confidence: 99%

High temperature aggravates the effects of pesticides in goldfish

Jacquin

Gandar

Aguirre-Smith

et al. 2019

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

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“…The histology-based health status at different levels was defined by the authors adapting the protocols by Bernet et al (1999), Gusmão et al (2012), andCuevas et al (2015), aiming to score the damages in a semi-quantitative histopathological index level. This histopathological approach considers the relative biological importance (weight) and the dissemination degree (score) of each lesion per organ.…”

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“…Senegal sole, Solea senegalensis Kaup, 1858 (order Pleuronectiformes), is a commercially relevant flatfish, natural of Atlantic coasts of Europe and Africa, and farmed in southern European countries (Morais et al, 2014). Because they are demersal and top predators, Sole species are emerging as sentinel fish (e.g., Jebali et al, 2013;Oliva et al, 2013;Cuevas et al, 2015;Briaudeau et al, 2019). Most research focused on juveniles or adults when they are benthic and, thus, susceptible to the effects of sediment contamination (Costa et al, 2009(Costa et al, , 2012.…”

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Can the toxicity of polyethylene microplastics and engineered nanoclays on flatfish (Solea senegalensis) be influenced by the presence of each other?

Santana

Rodrigues

Campos

et al. 2022

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Flatfish are considered to be suitable bioindicators due to their ecological importance, sensitivity and close contact to sediment substrates [47]. In particular, flatfish have been widely pointed out in ecotoxicological studies carried out in estuarine, coastal and marine environments, due to their benthic behavior [48]. Turbot is a marine demersal teleost flatfish which is distributed from the Atlantic coast of Europe, to the Baltic, Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea [29,34].…”

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Bioconcentration of Essential and Nonessential Elements in Black Sea Turbot (Psetta Maxima Maeotica Linnaeus, 1758) in Relation to Fish Gender

Simionov

Cristea

Petrea

et al. 2019

JMSE

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This study investigates the influence of gender in the bioconcentration of essential and nonessential elements in different parts of Black Sea turbot (Psetta maxima maeotica) body, from an area considered under high anthropogenic pressure (the Constanta City Black Sea Coastal Area in Romania). A number of 13 elements (Ca, Mg, Na, K, Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ni, Cr, As, Pb and Cd) were measured in various sample types: muscle, stomach, stomach content, intestine, intestine content, gonads, liver, spleen, gills and caudal fin. Turbot adults (4–5 years old) were separated, according to their gender, into two groups (20 males, 20 females, respectively), and a high total number of samples (1200 from both groups) were prepared and analyzed, in triplicate, with Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry and High-Resolution Continuum Source Atomic Absorption Spectrometry with Graphite Furnace techniques. The results were statistically analyzed in order to emphasize the bioconcentration of the determined elements in different tissues of wild turbot males vs. females, and also to contribute to an upgraded characterization of the Romanian Black Sea Coast, around Constanta City, in terms of heavy metals pollution. The essential elements Mg and Zn have different roles in the gonads of males and females, as they were the only elements with completely different patterns between the analyzed groups of specimens. The concentrations of studied elements in muscle were not similar with the data provided by literature, suggesting that chemistry of the habitat and food plays a major role in the availability of the metals in the body of analyzed fish species. The gender influenced the bioaccumulation process of all analyzed elements in most tissues since turbot male specimens accumulated higher concentration of metals compared to females. The highest bioaccumulation capacity in terms of Ca, Mg, Na, Ni, As, Zn and Cd was registered in caudal fin, liver and intestine tissues. Also, other elements such as K, Fe, Cu and Mn had the highest bioaccumulation in their muscle, spleen, liver and gills tissues. The concentrations of toxic metals in Black Sea turbot from this study were lower in the muscle samples compared with the studies conducted in Turkey, suggesting that the anthropogenic activity in the studied area did not pose a major impact upon the habitat contamination.

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Histopathological baseline levels and confounding factors in common sole (Solea solea) for marine environmental risk assessment

Cited by 16 publications

References 49 publications

High temperature aggravates the effects of pesticides in goldfish

High temperature aggravates the effects of pesticides in goldfish

Can the toxicity of polyethylene microplastics and engineered nanoclays on flatfish (Solea senegalensis) be influenced by the presence of each other?

Bioconcentration of Essential and Nonessential Elements in Black Sea Turbot (Psetta Maxima Maeotica Linnaeus, 1758) in Relation to Fish Gender

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