This study, which investigates the possible environmental
effects of heavy metals, shows that most heavy metal products found in nature
and resulting from human effects cause various environmental problems and
diseases. Heavy metals are characterized by their toxicity to living organisms.
Most of them cause environmental and atmospheric pollution and can be fatal to
living things. Heavy metals can become highly toxic by mixing with different
environmental elements such as water, soil and air, and humans and other living
organisms can be exposed to them through the food chain.
Pathological research shows that heavy metals cause damage
to the brain and peripheral nerves. The increasing use of heavy metals, which
have caused some diseases since ancient times, in all kinds of environments due
to industrial development, has brought about some health problems. Heavy metal
particles can cause edema in the cerebral hemispheres, vascular occlusion,
capillary changes in the brain, cerebellar edema with pyknotic, Purkinje cells,
and isolated areas of necrosis.
It is of great importance to consider the heavy metals found
in seafood to reduce the possible effects of heavy metals taken into the food
chain because of chronic consumption of fish and other seafood on nerve cells,
liver and immune system. Heavy metals could accumulate in living things through
their toxicity, longevity in the atmosphere and bioaccumulation. Therefore,
contamination of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with toxic heavy metals is
a significant environmental problem with consequences for public health.
Author(s)details:-
Aysun Turkmen
Department of Chemistry, Giresun University, Giresun, Turkey.
Fulya Oztas
Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Haydar Oztas
N. Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey.
Mustafa Turkmen
Department of Biology, Giresun University, Giresun, Turkey.
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here :- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cmsdi/v2/540
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