Investigating the potential impact of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on gene biomarker expression and global DNA methylation in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from the Adriatic Sea

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) accumulation in different common sole (Solea solea) tissues from the North Adriatic Sea peculiar impacted area

“…The present study of PAH levels and distribution in fish tissue aims to investigate the main factors affecting PAH bioaccumulation. Although several investigations have examined the impact of PAHs on marine organisms of the Adriatic and Mediterranean basins (Amodio Cocchieri et al, 1990;Corsi et al, 2002;Perugini et al, 2007;Galgani et al, 2010;Trisciani et al, 2011;Storelli et al, 2013;Cocci et al, 2018;Ferrante et al, 2018), comparisons between various fish tissues and environmental samples are limited. Moreover, the interest in these pollutants and their possible transfer to food of marine origin has increased after the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the first EU legislative instrument (EC, 2008) regulating the protection of marine biodiversity to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES).…”

Microplastics and their associated organic pollutants from the coastal waters of the central Adriatic Sea (Italy): Investigation of adipogenic effects in vitro

“…Among the great variety of organic pollutants which have been isolated on the surface of microplastics, PHAs (Teuten et al, 2007), PCBs (Endo et al, 2005) and pesticides (Bakir et al, 2014) represent the most common categories of contaminants. Indeed, PAHs are ubiquitous pollutants in waters, sediments and marine organisms from the Italian coasts of the Adriatic Sea (Cocci et al, 2017;Cocci et al, 2018;Frapiccini et al, 2018;Bajt et al, 2019). Due to their strong ability to bind to plastic particles (Liu et al, 2016), it's not surprising that PAHs are the most abundant contaminants found on the surface of MPs collected from our study area.…”

A Novel Ex Vivo Approach Based on Proteomics and Biomarkers to Evaluate the Effects of Chrysene, MEHP, and PBDE-47 on Loggerhead Sea Turtles (Caretta caretta)

“…In that study, a correlation was reported between the presence of PAH and genotoxic effects in the blood as well as a correlation between comet assay and ENA assay. A paper by Cocci et al [ 145 ] investigated the concentration of PAHs and PCBs in the blood of C. caretta ; among the results obtained, a correlation was observed between the levels of PAHs and DNA methylation. These studies confirm the genotoxic potential of PAHs also for C. caretta .…”