Pollutants bioavailability and toxicological risk from NSAIDs to marine mussels

ABSTRACT: Pharmaceutical compounds are emerging contaminants in aquatic environment due to their massive use (human and veterinary medicines, agriculture and aquaculture) and a limited removal by waste water treatment plants (WWTPs). In this work, a representative determination of ecotoxicological potential of two different NSAIDs compounds was studied in the sensitive bioindicator marine organism M. Galloprovincialis. Mussels were exposed, under regulated laboratory conditions, to Ketoprofen (KET) and Nimesulide (NIM), dosed alone at the realistic environmental concentration of 0.5µg/L for 14 days. Gene expression analyses of Mytilus galloprovincialis exposed to KET and NIM have been performed through a DNA microarray platform. Mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis (5 ± 1 cm shell length) were obta

ORGANISM(S): Mytilus galloprovincialis

SUBMITTER: Massimo Milan 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-66990 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress