Journal of Science Innovations and Nature of Earth
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HEAVY METALS AND THEIR IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH
Get PDFDue to the deleterious consequences it is having on a global scale, the presence of heavy metals has become a matter of significant concern. Due to the rapidly expanding agriculture and metal sectors, as well as inappropriate waste management, fertilisers, and pesticides, these inorganic pollutants are being dumped into our water, soil, and environment. Heavy metals interfere with biological functions such as growth, proliferation, differentiation, damage repair, and apoptosis. Multiple industrial, residential, agricultural, medical, and technical applications have resulted in their widespread presence in the environment, generating concerns regarding their possible consequences on human health and the environment. Heavy metals occur naturally and are vital to life, but buildup in organisms can render them hazardous. The most prevalent heavy metals that damage the environment include arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, and mercury. Due to its capacity to travel large distances in the atmosphere, mercury, lead, and cadmium pose the most threat. Mining, industrial output (foundries, smelters, oil refineries, petrochemicals plants, pesticides production, chemical industries), untreated sewage sludge, and diffuse sources such as metal pipelines, traffic, and combustion byproducts from coal-burning power plants are all sources of heavy metals. Mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic have caused human poisoning more frequently than any other heavy metals. Apoptosis, development, proliferation, differentiation, damage healing, and apoptosis are all affected by heavy metals. Instabilities in the genome have been linked to heavy metals like chromium and cadmium, as well as arsenic
ASSESSMENT OF LIVER MARKERS IN CHANNA PUNCTATUS UNDER STRESS OF TYPE II PYRETHROID CYPERMETHRIN
No full textThe frighteningly rapid accumulation of xenobiotics, such as insecticides, in aquatic organisms poses a risk to aquatic life because of the associated harm posed by this bioaccumulation. A wide variety of fish species demonstrate uptake and accumulation of numerous contaminants, such as pesticides, which have been discovered to be highly hazardous not just to fish, but also to the organisms that fish eat, posing a threat to the lives of fish. These contaminants include: Because fish are such an essential component of the diets of humans, it is critical that any newly introduced pesticides be tested for their potential to cause illness in fish. For this reason present study is to assess liver markers viz. bilirubin, SGOT, SGPT in freshwater fish Channa punctatus under stress of type II pyrethroid cypermethrin