Biomarkers in environmental and human health biomonitoring : an integrated perspective /

This book provides an integrated perspective on the use of biomarkers for environmental and human health biomonitoring. Edited by Ritu Mishra, Sughosh Madhav, Rahul Kumar Dhaka, and Parveen Garg, it covers various aspects of biomarkers in detecting and assessing pollution in aquatic and terrestrial...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Mishra, Ritu
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Academic Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Biochemical markers. Environmental monitoring. Marqueurs biologiques. Environnement > Surveillance. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Front Cover
Biomarkers in Environmental and Human Health Biomonitoring
Copyright Page
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1 Biomarkers for the detection of water pollution in rivers
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Potential uses and limitations of biomarkers
1.1.2 Assessment of river water pollution by biomarkers
1.2 Biomarkers for monitoring pollution in riverine ecosystem
1.2.1 Fish
1.2.2 Macroinvertebrates
1.2.3 Crustaceans and shrimps
1.2.4 Bacteria and algae
1.2.5 Mollusks and bivalves
1.2.6 Macrophytes
1.2.7 Zooplankton
1.2.8 Protozoa
1.2.9 Plant indicators
1.2.10 Artemia
1.2.11 Grass shrimp
1.2.12 Insect
1.2.13 Gastropod
1.2.14 Amphibian
1.3 Conclusions
1.4 Further prospects
Acknowledgments
References
2 Biomarkers to assess the water pollution in lakes and rivers
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Impacts of water pollutants on aquatic ecosystems
2.3 Conventional methods of ecotoxicity assessments
2.3.1 Biomonitoring of chemical exposure
2.3.2 Limitations
2.4 Biomarkers as bioindicators for water contaminant analysis
2.4.1 Classification of biomarkers
2.4.2 Recent examples of biomarkers determining the extent of spatial and temporal contamination
2.4.3 Recent examples of biomarkers predicting organisms' health
2.4.4 Behavioral biomarkers
2.4.4.1 Stressors identification within complex states
2.4.5 Multiple biomarkers
2.4.6 Role of biomarkers in assessing
2.5 Future direction
2.6 Conclusion
References
3 Native crustaceans-a biomonitoring tool for ecological risk assessment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Crustaceans as bioindicators in freshwater
3.2.1 Tricladida
3.2.2 Mytilus edulis
3.2.3 Crayfish
3.3 Crustaceans as bioindicators in marine water
3.4 Methods for establishing crustaceans as bioindicators.
3.4.1 Valvometry
3.4.2 Photoplethysmography
3.4.3 Population structure
3.4.4 Physiology and behavioral changes
3.4.5 Indicator value method
3.5 Significance of bioindicators
3.5.1 Ecological significance
3.5.2 Assessment of human and ecological health
3.5.3 Monitoring water quality
3.5.4 Monitoring air quality
3.6 Concluding remarks
References
4 Fish biomarkers in environmental biomonitoring: an insight into water pollution
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Biomonitoring
4.3 Biomarkers
4.3.1 Biomarkers in fish
4.3.1.1 Morphological parameters
4.3.1.2 Organosomatic indices
4.3.1.3 Hematological and biochemical studies
4.3.1.4 Oxidative stress parameters
4.3.1.5 Genotoxicity parameters
4.3.1.6 The weaknesses of fish biomarkers
4.4 Conclusion
References
5 Fish blood serum as a biomarker of water pollution
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Biomarkers
5.3 Development of biomarker
5.4 Types of serum biomarkers
5.5 Enzymatic biomarkers
5.6 Hematology and immunology biomarkers
5.7 Biomarkers of hormones
5.8 Biomarkers of endocrine disruption
5.9 Histopathology biomarkers
5.10 Fish biomarkers and environmental danger valuation
5.11 Biotransformation enzymes
5.12 Parameters of oxidative stress
5.13 Superoxide dismutase superoxide dismutase
5.14 Catalase
5.15 Glutathione reductase
5.16 Biotransformation products
5.17 Bile's polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites
5.18 Multixenobiotic resistance, stress proteins, and metallothioneins
5.19 (Heat-shock proteins) Stress proteins
5.20 Metallothioneins
5.21 Multixenobiotic resistance
5.22 Other hematological variables
5.23 Immunological characteristics
5.24 Conclusion
References
6 Microplastics-a major threat to marine environment and applicability of biomarkers
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Microplastic and cocontaminants
6.3 Microplastic exposure pathways
6.4 Microplastics impact on marine organisms
6.5 Physical impacts
6.6 Chemical impacts
6.7 Biological impacts
6.8 Biomarkers of plastic pollution in marine habitats
6.9 Oxidative stress
6.10 Geno and neurotoxicity
6.11 Metabolic disturbance
6.12 Conclusion
References
7 Microbial biomarkers for detection of environmental pollution
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Microbial biomarkers for pollution detection
7.2.1 Microbial biomarkers for water pollution detection
7.2.2 Microbial biomarkers for soil pollution detection
7.3 Effect of pollutants on the microbial community
7.3.1 Air pollution
7.3.1.1 Effects of air pollution on microbial community
7.3.2 Particulate matter
7.3.3 Effect of water pollution on microbes
7.3.4 Effect of soil pollution on microbes
7.3.5 Impact of heavy metals on microbes
7.3.6 Impact of pesticides on soil microflora
7.4 Indicator species for pollution detection and application of biomarkers
7.5 Conclusion
References
8 Microbial biomarkers-based sensors for detection of environmental pollution
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Environmental pollution and its associated biomarkers
8.3 Biomarkers
8.4 Contaminated water biomarkers
8.5 Contaminated soil biomarkers
8.6 Contaminated air biomarkers
8.7 Biosensors
8.8 Microbial biosensors
8.9 Electrochemical biosensors
8.10 Optical biosensors
8.11 The market value of biosensors
8.12 Advantages and disadvantages of microbial biosensors
8.13 Conclusion and future perspectives
References
9 Plants as biomarkers for monitoring environmental pollution
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Plants as biomarkers for monitoring heavy-metal contamination
9.3 Plant indicators of environmental pollution and environmental monitoring.
9.4 Biomarkers of plants with different types of ecological strategies
9.4.1 Classification of ecological strategy
9.4.2 Specific biochemical biomarkers for sensitive plants
9.4.3 Biochemical biomarkers for a group of elements or environmental stresses
9.5 Stress biomarkers for different types of abiotic stress strategies
9.6 Conclusion and future prospects
References
10 Plant biomarkers for environmental monitoring
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Types of biomarkers for environmental monitoring
10.2.1 Genetic biomarkers
10.2.2 Protein biomarkers
10.2.3 Metabolite biomarkers
10.2.4 Physiological biomarkers
10.2.5 Histological biomarkers
10.3 Plants as biomarkers for environmental pollution monitoring
10.3.1 Plant biomarkers for the detection of heavy metals
10.3.2 Plant biomarkers for the detection of ozone
10.3.3 Plant biomarkers for the detection of pesticides and herbicides
10.4 Conclusion
References
Further reading
11 Omics tools in understanding environment-induced stresses in plants
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Omics tools for stress identification in plants
11.3 Biomarker-based tools to assess abiotic stress in plants
11.4 Molecular markers for the disease identification in plants
11.5 Recommendations and future research pathways
11.6 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
12 The impact of climate change on polar ichthyofauna biodiversity
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Environmental condition in the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean
12.3 Antifreeze glycoproteins
12.4 The origin and convergence of antifreeze glycoproteins in Arctic cod and Antarctic notothenioid
12.5 Adaptation in the expression of hemoglobin and myoglobin genes in Arctic and Antarctic ichthyofauna
12.6 Impact of temperature on the Arctic and Antarctic ichthyofaunas.
12.7 Thermal restrictions and adaptations of Arctic cod and Antarctic notothenioid
12.7.1 Arctic cod
12.7.2 Antarctic notothenioid
12.8 Conclusion
Conflict of interest
References
13 Biomarkers for the biodiversity loss and restoration of degraded ecosystems
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Environmental biomonitoring
13.3 Types of biomarkers
13.3.1 Biomarkers of susceptibility
13.3.2 Biomarkers of exposure
13.3.2.1 Internal dose markers
13.3.2.2 Effective dose markers
13.3.3 Biomarkers of DNA damage
13.4 Biomarkers in the field of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
13.4.1 Biomarkers used in aquatic ecosystems
13.4.2 Biomarkers used in terrestrial ecosystem
13.5 Application of biomarkers in conservation and the restoration of degraded ecosystems
13.6 Recent trends of utilizing biomarkers in the assessment of degraded ecosystems
13.7 Challenges
13.8 Conclusion
13.9 Future prospects
References
14 Nanoparticle induced plant stress: unraveling biomarkers for enhanced detection and mitigation
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Plant stress and its significance
14.3 Nanoparticles in plant stress
14.3.1 Silver nanoparticles
14.3.2 Gold nanoparticles
14.3.3 Zinc oxide nanoparticles
14.3.4 Copper oxide nanoparticles
14.3.5 Cerium oxide nanoparticles
14.3.6 Titanium dioxide nanoparticles
14.4 Uptake and translocation of nanoparticles in plants
14.4.1 Root uptake and transport pathway of nanoparticles from the root
14.4.2 Foliar uptake and transport pathway of nanoparticles from the leaves
14.5 Biomarkers for assessing plant stress
14.5.1 Biomarkers related to plant stress caused by nanoparticle applications
14.5.2 Categories of biomarkers in plant stress
14.5.2.1 Physiological biomarkers
14.5.2.2 Biochemical biomarkers
14.5.2.3 Molecular biomarkers.