Assessment of micronuclei induction in peripheral blood and gill cells of some fish species from Aliağa Bay Turkey
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2015
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The aim of this paper was to assess the biological damages in fish caused by various mutagenic agents present in polluted waters of Aliağa Bay. For this purpose, micronuclei (MN) test was performed using peripheral erythrocytes and gill cells of different fish specimens caught from both polluted and relatively clean sites from Aliağa Bay (Turkey). Micronuclei tests is a system of mutagenicity testing used for determining changes in DNA fragments such as micronuclei in the cytoplasm of interphase cells caused by the pollution and chemicals in the environment. Thus, it was attempted to determine whether pollution affected the erythrocytes and gills of fish living in Aliağa Bay at the level of DNA by the means of micronuclei (MN) test. According to the results of present study, frequency of MN was found at high level in polluted site. In conclusion, this study indicates that the micronuclei test gives sensitive results in monitoring the pollution, especially the pollution of harbor, and thus it might be used as standard method in regularly monitoring pollution of coastal ecosystem. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
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Animals , Bays , Ecosystem , Environmental Monitoring , Erythrocytes , Fishes , Gills , Micronuclei, Chromosome-Defective , Micronucleus Tests , Mutagenicity Tests , Mutagens , Turkey , Water Pollutants, Chemical , Water Pollution , Aliaga Bay , Izmir [Turkey] , Turkey , Cytology , Ecosystems , Fish , Pollution , Testing , Water pollution , DNA fragment , mutagenic agent , water pollutant , Coastal ecosystems , Fish specimens , Genotoxicities , Interphase cells , Micronuclei test , Peripheral blood , Polluted sites , Polluted water , chemical pollutant , coastal water , DNA , fish , genotoxicity , mutagenicity , pollution effect , pollution monitoring , toxicity test , water pollution , animal cell , animal tissue , Article , Boops boops , coastal waters , Diplodus vulgaris , DNA determination , fish , genotoxicity , gill , micronucleus , micronucleus test , nonhuman , Pagellus erythrinus , pollution monitoring , Serranus cabrilla , Solea solea , Turkey (republic) , water pollution , analysis , animal , bay , chemistry , cytology , ecosystem , environmental monitoring , erythrocyte , genetics , micronucleus test , mutagen testing , physiology , procedures , statistics and numerical data , toxicity , Turkey , water pollutant , water pollution , Blood