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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 6216-6222Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-019-04133-1
Keywords
Blaptica dubia; Fluoranthene; Mechanisms of defense
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- Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development [173027]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous environmental pollutants which exert detrimental effects on living beings. Considering the health risk associated with exposure to these pollutants, their presence in food increases efforts to establish early-warning indicators of pollution. We aimed to examine the effects of environmentally relevant concentrations of fluoranthene (0.2ng and 18ng/g dry weight of diet) on the activities of midgut antioxidant and detoxification enzymes in Blaptica dubia. Significant changes of superoxide dismutase and catalase activities, recorded at the higher fluoranthene concentration regardless of the exposure time, suggest that they may be used as biomarkers of PAH pollution. Increased GST activity and decreased total GSH content, detected upon acute exposure to the lower concentration, indicate processes of detoxification. Reorganization of B. dubia mechanisms of defense in response to oxidative stress caused by exposure to dietary PAH point to the necessity for further examination of fluoranthene actions.
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