The use of pathological effects of pollutants in marine environmental monitoring programs [stress, abnormalities, cell and tissue change, chromosomal and cytologic anomalies in fish eggs and larvae, skeletal anomalies in marine fish, neoplasms in shellfish, fin rot and ulcers in fin fish]
1980
McIntyre, A.D. (Marine Lab., Aberdeen (UK)) | Pearce, J.B. (eds.) | Sindermann, C.J.
The presence of stress in animals is often signalled by the occurrence of abnormalities - physiological, behavioral, biochemical or morphological. Of these indicators, morphological abnormalities, and particularly cell and tissue changes, can in some instances serve as useful, quantifiable measures of pollution stress. Among the diseases and abnormalities that have been associated with estuarine/coastal pollution, chromosomal and cytologic anomalies in fish eggs and larvae and skeletal anomalies in fish offer the greatest likelihood of early application to monitoring programs. Certain categories of neoplasms in shellfish and fin rot and ulcers in fin fish, can be qualitative indicators of environmental stress. Still other abnormalities, such as liver pathologies, scale disorientation and changes in epithelial cells, may have utility in the future. When pathology is combined with indicators based on biochemistry, physiology, behavior and ecology, a program of biological effects monitoring should be feasible and productive
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