Oxidative Stress Responses to Freshwater and Marine Toxins: From Molecular Mechanisms to Ecological Impacts
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 February 2025 | Viewed by 722
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Interests: ecotoxicology; marine biology; marine toxins; oxidative stress
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Dear Colleagues,
Acute or chronic exposure to environmental pollutants, such as blooms associated with the production of marine toxins, may produce a number of alterations within aquatic organisms. Although they can tolerate a certain number of short-term pollutant-induced biological disturbances, long-term exposure can deplete repair and defense mechanisms, causing a negative impact on cell organization, known as oxidative stress.
Oxidative stress is an important component of the biological responses of freshwater and marine organisms when exposed to a wide variety of environmental stressors on different scales of time and space. Therefore, oxidative stress is produced when the rate of production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) exceeds the rate of elimination produced by endogenous antioxidant molecules. Thus, this imbalance leads to the production and accumulation of ROS, causing damage to lipids, proteins, and the DNA of cells of aquatic organisms. The damage can be determined depending on the species, age, organ, type of exposure, type of material, duration of the dose, and external environmental factors.
We invite you to submit your latest research findings or a review article to this Special Issue, entitled “Oxidative Stress Responses to Freshwater and Marine Toxins: From Molecular Mechanisms to Ecological Impacts”.
We look forward to your contribution.
Dr. Carlos García
Guest Editor
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Keywords
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ecotoxicology
- marine biology
- oxidative stress
- marine toxins
- bivalves
- gastropods
- reactive oxygen species
- antioxidant system
- superoxide dismutase
- harmful effects
- cyanotoxins
- cyanobacteria
- human and animal health
- molecular mechanisms
- bioaccumulation
- invertebrates
- vertebrates
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