Cinta Porte

TL;DR: A battery of biomarkers of contaminant exposure and effects are proposed that could be incorporated into programmes monitoring the quality of the coastal environment in the Iberian Peninsula and would be undertaken in conjunction with chemical measures of contaminants burdens in selected sentinel species.

TL;DR: Results denoted different patterns of antioxidant enzyme responses, suggesting that different toxicants may induce different antioxidant/prooxidant responses depending on their ability to produce reactive oxygen species and antioxidant enzymes to detoxify them.

TL;DR: In this article, the presence and effects of polyethoxylated nonylphenol (NPEOx) surfactants and NP as their major degradation product as well as some synthetic and natural estrogens and progestogens have been reported to be present in freshwater systems, mainly at the vicinity of urban discharges and sewage treatment plants (STPs), at levels high enough to exhort estrogenicity to wildlife.

TL;DR: The estuaries of Urdaibai and Plentzia can be considered as low to moderately polluted areas and levels of PAHs and PCBs do not show marked variations apart from seasonal variations.

TL;DR: Overall, the reviewed data underline the potential to identify specific types of responses to specific groups of chemicals such as EDs in order to develop suitable biomarkers that could be useful as diagnostic tools for endocrine disruption in marine invertebrates and vertebrates.