Copper oxide nanoparticles(CuO-NPs) are among the most widely used metal oxide nanoparticles,which increases the chance of their being released into the marine environment.As the applications of these particles have i...Copper oxide nanoparticles(CuO-NPs) are among the most widely used metal oxide nanoparticles,which increases the chance of their being released into the marine environment.As the applications of these particles have increased in recent years,their potential impact on the health of marine biota has also increased.However,the toxicological effects of these NPs in the marine environment are poorly known.In the present study,the DNA damaging potential of CuO-NPs in the marine eastern mussel Mytilus trossulus was evaluated and compared to that of dissolved copper exposures.Genotoxicity was assessed by the single cell gel electrophoresis(comet) assay in mussel gill and digestive gland cells.The results showed that copper in both forms(CuO-NPs and dissolved copper) was accumulated to different extents in mussel tissues.The mussel exposed to the dissolved copper attained higher concentrations of copper in the gills than in the digestive gland.In contrast to these results,it was found that CuO-NPs could induce much higher copper accumulation in the digestive gland than in the gills.A clear and statistically significant increase in DNA damage was found in both tissues of the Cu-exposed group compared to the control mussels.Our results indicated that the CuO-NP exposure produced remarkable effects and increased DNA damage significantly in mussel gill cells only.It should be noted that the digestive gland cells were prone to accumulation following CuO-NPs when compared to the gill cells,while the gill cells were more sensitive to the genotoxic effects of CuO-NPs.These results also suggested the need for a complete risk assessment of engineered particles before its arrival in the consumer market.展开更多
Mussels from two sites within the Baltic mussel (Mytilus edulis × M. trossulus) hybrid zone were used in a comparative study on the effects of salinity-changing rates on filtration activity. The acute effect of v...Mussels from two sites within the Baltic mussel (Mytilus edulis × M. trossulus) hybrid zone were used in a comparative study on the effects of salinity-changing rates on filtration activity. The acute effect of varying salinity-changing rates was found to be similar in M. edulis from the brackish Great Belt and in M. trossulus from the low saline Central Baltic Sea, and the relationships could be described by linear regression lines through 0.0 indicating that the acute effect of deteriorating conditions at decreasing salinities is the opposite as for improving conditions when the salinity is subsequently increased. Further, both M. edulis and M. trossulus acclimatized to 20 psu reacted to an acute salinity change to 6.5 psu by immediately closing their valves whereupon the filtration rate gradually increased during the following days, but only M. trossulus had completely acclimatized to 6.5 psu within 5 days which may be explained by different genotypes of M. edulis and M. trossulus which probably reflected an evolutionary adaptation of the latter to survive in the stable low-salinity Baltic Sea.展开更多
基金supported by the grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research(No.15-04-06526А)
文摘Copper oxide nanoparticles(CuO-NPs) are among the most widely used metal oxide nanoparticles,which increases the chance of their being released into the marine environment.As the applications of these particles have increased in recent years,their potential impact on the health of marine biota has also increased.However,the toxicological effects of these NPs in the marine environment are poorly known.In the present study,the DNA damaging potential of CuO-NPs in the marine eastern mussel Mytilus trossulus was evaluated and compared to that of dissolved copper exposures.Genotoxicity was assessed by the single cell gel electrophoresis(comet) assay in mussel gill and digestive gland cells.The results showed that copper in both forms(CuO-NPs and dissolved copper) was accumulated to different extents in mussel tissues.The mussel exposed to the dissolved copper attained higher concentrations of copper in the gills than in the digestive gland.In contrast to these results,it was found that CuO-NPs could induce much higher copper accumulation in the digestive gland than in the gills.A clear and statistically significant increase in DNA damage was found in both tissues of the Cu-exposed group compared to the control mussels.Our results indicated that the CuO-NP exposure produced remarkable effects and increased DNA damage significantly in mussel gill cells only.It should be noted that the digestive gland cells were prone to accumulation following CuO-NPs when compared to the gill cells,while the gill cells were more sensitive to the genotoxic effects of CuO-NPs.These results also suggested the need for a complete risk assessment of engineered particles before its arrival in the consumer market.
文摘Mussels from two sites within the Baltic mussel (Mytilus edulis × M. trossulus) hybrid zone were used in a comparative study on the effects of salinity-changing rates on filtration activity. The acute effect of varying salinity-changing rates was found to be similar in M. edulis from the brackish Great Belt and in M. trossulus from the low saline Central Baltic Sea, and the relationships could be described by linear regression lines through 0.0 indicating that the acute effect of deteriorating conditions at decreasing salinities is the opposite as for improving conditions when the salinity is subsequently increased. Further, both M. edulis and M. trossulus acclimatized to 20 psu reacted to an acute salinity change to 6.5 psu by immediately closing their valves whereupon the filtration rate gradually increased during the following days, but only M. trossulus had completely acclimatized to 6.5 psu within 5 days which may be explained by different genotypes of M. edulis and M. trossulus which probably reflected an evolutionary adaptation of the latter to survive in the stable low-salinity Baltic Sea.
