Immunotoxicity of washing soda in a freshwater sponge of India

Mukherjee, Soumalya; Ray, Mitali; Ray, Sajal

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.11.035

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“…Various industrial processes and agricultural activities result in the rapid and precarious contamination of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Environmental toxins after generation from sources of origin enter the specific ecological compartments following the nonspecific and specific patterns of dispersion [2,3]. Environmental dispersion of xenobiotics largely depend on their physicochemical characteristics, which largely influence the distribution and fate of the toxic compounds related to half life, polarity, environmental, and cellular degradability and toxicokinetics [4].…”

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Levels of Toxicity Screening of Environmental Chemicals Using Aquatic Invertebrates - A Review

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2016

Invertebrates - Experimental Models in Toxicity Screening

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Effective screening of the toxicity of chemicals using living organisms has been considered as a major issue of environmental biomonitoring. The principle of toxicity screening involves the quantitation of toxin-induced shift of biological response or tissue morphology of test species both in vivo and in vitro. Most of the toxin appears to function as biological response modifiers at a defined concentration and span of exposure. In recent years, invertebrates have been gaining a special scientific attention for being utilized as suitable model for toxicity screening. Invertebrates like crab, mollusks, sponge, and earthworm have already been established as model organisms for toxicity screening and analyses. " number of environmental toxins like arsenic, pyrethroid, pesticides, heavy metals, and washing soda can be screened for their toxicities using invertebrate species. Cellular and subcellular parameters like blood cell density, lysosomal membrane stability, cellular damage, apoptosis, micronucleation, and cytotoxic response of invertebrates had been established as biomarkers of environmental toxicity. Toxin-induced histopathological and behavioral shift had been suggested as effective parameters of toxicity screening in model invertebrates. However, reactivity and responses of invertebrates toward xenobiotics are often recorded to be species specific and related to the chemistry of the toxin. Current article reviews different levels of toxicity screening using invertebrate as test model.

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Levels of Toxicity Screening of Environmental Chemicals Using Aquatic Invertebrates - A Review

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2016

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“…Washing soda, chemically known as anhydrous sodium carbonate, is an important aquatoxin that can alter the selected physiological parameters of diverse groups of invertebrates. Mukherjee et al (2015b) reported the toxicity of washing soda in a freshwater sponge of India with reference to its phagocytic and cytotoxic status [5]. Altered functioning of the immune system may lead to opportunistic invasion of environmental pathogens and parasites into the body of host and increase the vulnerability of these biofilter species in polluted environment.…”

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“…Phagocytosis, in sponge, plays a dual physiological attribute in the form of food procurement and innate immune response [28]. Mukherjee et al (2015b) reported washing-soda-induced inhibition in the phagocytic potential of cells of freshwater sponge, E. carteri, under the challenge of yeast [5]. According to them, decrease in phagocytic potential is suggestive to a possible impairment of both food capture efficiency and innate immune status, leading to suppression of immunological status of E. carteri distributed in detergent-contaminated natural habitat.…”

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“…Chakraborty et al (2013) reported inhibition in the generation of superoxide anions and nitric oxide and activity of phenoloxidase in the digestive gland of the same experimental bivalve under prolonged exposure of arsenic [34]. Generation of cytotoxic molecules like superoxide anions and nitric oxide and activity of phenoloxidase are important immunological responses offered by the cells of sponge under the exposure of pathogens and toxins [5]. Authors reported washing-soda-induced alteration in the generation of superoxide anion, nitric oxide and activity of phenoloxidase in the dissociated cells of freshwater sponge, E. carteri.…”

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Immunotoxicological Threats of Pollutants in Aquatic Invertebrates

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Emerging Pollutants in the Environment - Current and Further Implications

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“…2 0 1 3 ) . S p o n g e s a r e considered "ecological hotspots" (Mukherjee et al 2015b) and may act as sites for reproduction, parental care and nesting for other aquatic organisms including crabs, shrimps, insect larvae, mites, nematodes, oligochaetes, molluscs, fishes (Soota 1991) and isopods (Roy & Mitra 2014).…”

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