Animal Biomarkers as Stress Indicators: Assessing the Health of Organisms in the Environment

摘要: The introduction of anthropogenic factors is known to affect various physiological/biochemical metabolic processess in organisms. Altered rate, if not compensated by adaptive mechanisms the organisms, may it’s survival and/or reproduction. Any contaminant which impair function beyond compensatory limit will cause severe stress and disability normal functioning organism. Such xenobiotically-induced variation cellular or biochemical processes an organism can be detected certain assays termed as ‘biomarkers’. With help biomarkers it possible search that interaction between contaminants have taken place.