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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Impact of Aquatic Pollution on Embryonic and Larval Development in Fish: A Comprehensive Review
ClearRole of Environmental Pollution in Altering Reproductive Cycles in Freshwater Fishes
Not relevant to microplastics — this review examines how industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and pesticides in freshwater ecosystems disrupt reproductive cycles in fish, covering hormonal imbalances and population effects from endocrine-disrupting chemicals broadly.
Impact of Heavy Metals and Pesticide Contamination on Aquatic Environment and Fish Health: Challenges and Bioremediation Strategies
This review examines the impact of heavy metals and pesticide contamination on aquatic environments and fish health, with attention to how microplastics interact with these traditional pollutants. The authors discuss how pollution from industrialization affects fish physiology and disrupts ecosystem balance. The study highlights bioremediation approaches as sustainable strategies for addressing contaminated aquatic environments.
How Can Different Land Use Impact Aquatic Organisms? An Evaluation of Metabolic Alterations During Embryonic Development of Freshwater Fish, Rhamdia quelen
Not relevant to microplastics — this study uses embryonic development of a native catfish (Rhamdia quelen) as a biomarker to assess metabolic and neurotoxic effects of agricultural chemical runoff in Brazilian freshwater streams.
Impact of Heavy Metals and Pesticide Contamination on Aquatic Environment and Fish Health: Challenges and Bioremediation Strategies
This review examines the impact of heavy metals and pesticide contamination on aquatic environments and fish health, including the role of microplastics as co-contaminants. The authors discuss how industrialization has increased pollutant levels in water systems, affecting fish physiology and ecosystem balance. The study highlights bioremediation strategies as promising approaches for cleaning up contaminated aquatic environments.
Water Quality and Fish Health: Interaction with Toxic Substances
This review examines how various toxic substances in water, including microplastics, affect fish health through physiological, behavioral, and biochemical pathways. Researchers summarized evidence that pollutants can accumulate in fish tissues and impair their immune systems, reproduction, and organ function. The study emphasizes that declining water quality from emerging contaminants poses growing risks to aquatic ecosystems and the species that depend on them.
Impacts of Microplastics on the Early Life Stages of Fish: Sources, Mechanisms, Ecological Consequences, and Mitigation Strategies
This review synthesized evidence on how microplastics affect the early life stages of fish, covering ingestion routes, physical and endocrine disruption mechanisms, and consequences for larval survival, growth, and development. The authors found that embryos and larvae are disproportionately vulnerable to microplastic exposure and identified biotransformation and food avoidance as priority mitigation strategies.
Impact of Pollution and Toxic Stress on Fish Health: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Mitigation Strategies
This review examined the many ways pollution and toxic substances harm fish health, including through disrupted metabolism, hormonal imbalances, weakened immune systems, and reproductive problems. The study highlights that pollutants enter fish through water, food, and sediment, and discusses mitigation strategies for protecting fish populations and the broader aquatic ecosystems they support.
Aquatic pollution and its effects on fish health
Laboratory and field experiments in Bihar, India examined how plastic microbeads, pesticides, mercury, crude oil, and pharmaceuticals affect fish health, finding organ damage, reproductive failure, and elevated mortality across multiple pollutant types.
The Effects of Micro & Nano Pollution on Fish Reproduction
This review summarizes how micro- and nano-sized pollutants — including microplastics — enter fish through food, respiration, and direct contact, disrupting reproductive success and causing developmental abnormalities in offspring. The cumulative harm to fish reproduction poses a long-term threat to aquatic population viability, with potential cascading effects up the food chain to humans.
Toxicological Studies of Fish and Fish Cells in Vitro and in Vivo
This review summarizes advances in in vitro and in vivo toxicological studies of fish and fish cells, examining the impacts of various industrial, agricultural, and urban pollutants -- including microplastics -- on fish health and potential risks to humans through the food chain.
The effect of environmental stressors on growth in fish and its endocrine control
This review examines how environmental stressors, including pollution and climate change, affect fish growth through hormonal disruption. Pollutants like microplastics and heavy metals can interfere with the growth hormone system, leading to stunted development and reproductive problems in fish. These effects on fish health are relevant to humans because they can reduce the quality and safety of fish as a food source.
Developmental Abnormalities in Tadpoles as Biomarkers to Assess the Ecotoxicity of Traditional and Emerging Pollutants
This review examines how developing tadpoles can serve as sensitive indicators of toxic contamination in aquatic environments, noting that micro- and nanoplastics are among the emerging pollutants shown to cause developmental abnormalities in amphibian larvae. Because amphibians absorb chemicals easily through their permeable skin, they serve as early warning systems for plastic pollution levels that may also threaten other wildlife and ecosystems.
Toxicological implications of emerging pollutants on aquatic organisms
Researchers reviewed how a broad range of emerging pollutants — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and heavy metals — harm aquatic organisms like fish, amphibians, and molluscs. Evidence shows these pollutants trigger oxidative stress, disrupt hormones, impair reproduction, and reduce biodiversity, with the review calling for stronger regulations, better wastewater treatment, and more research on the combined effects of multiple pollutants.
Field validated biomarker (ValidBIO) based assessment of impacts of various pollutants in water
This review examines field-validated biomarker approaches for monitoring water pollution, showing that enzymatic activity changes in fish exposed to heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and persistent organic pollutants serve as sensitive and reliable indicators of aquatic contamination across diverse environments.
Microplastics in Aquatic Environments and Their Toxicological Implications for Fish
This review summarizes research on microplastic occurrence in freshwater and marine environments and the toxicological risks they pose to fish, examining both direct physical effects and the role of plastics as vectors for chemical pollutants. The authors highlight that freshwater fish are particularly vulnerable given the high loads of microplastics in rivers receiving wastewater.
Effects of pollution on freshwater aquatic organisms
This annual review of scientific literature covers 2018 research on the effects of various pollutants on freshwater aquatic organisms, including microplastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and heavy metals. The review highlights the growing body of evidence that multiple freshwater pollutants impair the health, reproduction, and behavior of aquatic species.
Drenched in microplastic environment: Physiological and metabolic disruptions in fish
This literature review synthesized studies on the physiological and metabolic disruptions microplastics cause in fish, finding impacts across multiple organ systems including the liver, gut, gills, and reproductive organs depending on particle type and exposure duration.
Larval Fish Habitat Brims with Plastic
Research shows that larval fish habitats in the ocean are heavily contaminated with microplastics, raising concern about early-life exposure for a life stage that is both ecologically critical and vulnerable. Microplastic overlap with larval fish habitat poses a risk to future fish populations.
A review: Research progress on microplastic pollutants in aquatic environments
This review summarizes current research on microplastic pollution in aquatic environments, including sources, detection methods, and ecological effects. The study highlights that microplastics can carry heavy metals and organic pollutants, forming complex contaminant combinations that accumulate through the food chain with potentially unpredictable consequences for both aquatic life and human health.
Impacts of microplastic accumulation in aquatic environment: Physiological, eco-toxicological, immunological, and neurotoxic effects
This review summarizes how microplastics build up in fish and other aquatic life, causing damage to their immune systems, nervous systems, and overall health. When fish eat microplastics, the particles move up the food chain and can eventually reach humans through seafood consumption. The authors also discuss strategies for removing microplastics from water and reducing plastic pollution.
Bioaccumulation of Different Organic Micropollutants in Fishes and its Toxicological and Stress Impacts: A Review
This review covers how organic micropollutants including pesticides, pharmaceutical compounds, and industrial chemicals bioaccumulate in fish and examines their toxicological effects on fish physiology, immune function, and reproductive health.
Phenotypic and Gene Expression Alterations in Aquatic Organisms Exposed to Microplastics
This review summarizes research on how microplastics affect aquatic animals at the genetic level, covering changes in hatching, development, and growth. Microplastics, especially when combined with other pollutants, trigger abnormal gene activity in antioxidant and stress-response systems in fish and other water organisms. These genetic disruptions in aquatic life are relevant to human health because affected organisms can enter the food chain through seafood.
Effects of Pollutants on the Endocrine System of Tadpoles
This review examines how various environmental pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, heavy metals, and microplastics, disrupt the endocrine system of amphibian tadpoles. The study highlights that pollutant-driven hormonal imbalances during metamorphosis can impair growth, development, and survival through carry-over effects, potentially contributing to significant amphibian population declines.
The role of environmental stress in fish health: A review
This review examines how environmental stressors including temperature changes, pesticide contamination, microplastics, and algal blooms affect fish health. Researchers found that these factors substantially influence fish growth, reproduction, respiration, and metabolic function. The study emphasizes the need for new strategies to address the growing impact of environmental changes on aquatic ecosystems and the global fish economy.