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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to Saving the pharmacy of the sea: How does global change affect species with bioactive potential in the Mediterranean?
Clear(Bio)monitoring of pharmaceuticals in the Mediterranean aquatic environment and interactive effect with microplastics. Insights from field and laboratory studies
This biomonitoring study surveyed the presence of pharmaceutical compounds in Mediterranean aquatic environments, measuring concentrations in water, sediment, and biota across multiple sampling sites. Several drugs were detected at levels of potential concern for aquatic organisms.
Persian Gulf Bivalves: Bioactive Pharmaceutical Compounds and Biomedical Applications
This review covers the bioactive compounds found in bivalves from the Persian Gulf and their potential pharmaceutical and medical applications. Bivalves are relevant to microplastic research because they filter large volumes of water and accumulate microplastics and associated chemicals in their tissues. This paper focuses on medicinal compounds rather than contamination.
Marine Ecological Well-Being and the Development of Human Health Through Marine Natural Products and Nutraceuticals
This review examines the balance between marine ecological health and the development of nutraceuticals and functional foods from ocean species. The study discusses how pollution including microplastics threatens marine ecosystems while also covering the bioactive compounds from marine organisms that show potential antioxidant, cardio-protective, and neuroprotective properties.
Exploring the Impact of Contaminants of Emerging Concern on Fish and Invertebrates Physiology in the Mediterranean Sea
This study examines how emerging pollutants including pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, pesticides, and microplastics affect marine organisms in the Mediterranean Sea. Researchers used catsharks and mussels as indicator species to measure contamination levels and biological effects. The findings are relevant to human health because contaminated seafood from the Mediterranean is widely consumed across Europe.
Exploring the silent threats of pharmaceutical contaminants in indian seas: Monitoring, biological impact, and sustainable mitigation.
This review examined pharmaceutical contaminants in Indian seas, synthesizing evidence on their sources, pathways, occurrence, and biological impacts on marine biodiversity and ecosystem stability. It highlighted pharmaceutical pollution as a critical yet underexplored dimension of coastal marine pollution in India.
From Ocean to Medicine: Harnessing Seaweed’s Potential for Drug Development
This review explores how compounds derived from seaweed show promise for drug development, with properties including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer activity. While not directly about microplastics, marine-derived bioactive compounds could be relevant to addressing the inflammation and oxidative stress that microplastic exposure is known to cause in the body.
Potential Effects of Persistent Organic Contaminants on Marine Biota: A Review on Recent Research
This review examined the effects of persistent organic contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, PCBs, and PAHs on marine biota, synthesizing evidence of direct and indirect ecological impacts across multiple chemical classes.
Microplastics from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. Functional and Clinical Endocrine Exposure to Human Health. Systematic Review.
This systematic review summarizes research on microplastics found in fish and seafood from the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, focusing on potential hormonal and health effects in humans. The findings suggest that microplastic contamination in popular seafood species may expose consumers to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which could interfere with hormones and overall health.
Can Phthalates Be Considered as Microplastic Tracers in the Mediterranean Marine Environment?
This study assessed whether phthalate plasticizers could serve as tracers for microplastic pollution in Mediterranean coastal waters, examining their occurrence, distribution, and interactions with the marine environment in one of the world's plastic pollution hotspots.
Risk assessment of plastic pollution on marine diversity in the Mediterranean Sea
Researchers modeled plastic ingestion risk for 84 Mediterranean species across six taxonomic classes, finding that coastal species face the highest risk and that species with larger home ranges encounter plastic over greater distances — identifying spatial hotspots that could guide conservation priorities.
Mapping microplastic overlap between marine compartments and biodiversity in a Mediterranean marine protected area
Researchers mapped microplastic distribution across water, sediment, and biota in a Mediterranean marine protected area, revealing significant overlap between microplastic hotspots and biodiversity-rich zones, raising concerns about ecological impacts in supposedly protected habitats.
Mediterranean Marine Mammals: Possible Future Trends and Threats Due to Mercury Contamination and Interaction with Other Environmental Stressors
Researchers reviewed the combined threats facing Mediterranean marine mammals from mercury contamination and its interaction with other environmental stressors including microplastics and climate change. They found that despite reduced emissions, Mediterranean cetaceans still carry among the highest pollutant burdens globally, with climate change potentially altering mercury bioavailability. The study highlights how multiple stressors may compound to threaten marine mammal populations in this sensitive region.
An assessment of the concentration of pharmaceuticals adsorbed on microplastics
This study developed and validated an analytical method to measure pharmaceutical compounds adsorbed onto microplastic particles in marine water samples. Microplastics can concentrate pharmaceuticals from water and carry them through marine food chains, potentially delivering drug compounds to fish and other organisms at elevated concentrations.
Evolution of the Distribution and Dynamic of Microplastic in Water and Biota: A Study Case From the Gulf of Gabes (Southern Mediterranean Sea)
Researchers found microplastics in all surface water samples and in the digestive tracts of multiple commercially important marine species in the Gulf of Gabes, Southern Mediterranean, revealing widespread contamination in a previously understudied region.
Assessment of ecotoxicological effects of small microplastics on Mediterranean corals.
Researchers investigated the ecotoxicological effects of micro- and nano-plastics on Mediterranean gorgonian corals using field-representative polymer compositions and concentrations, with particular focus on energy allocation to metabolism, growth, and reproduction, as well as transgenerational impacts. The study addressed a gap in tropical-dominated coral microplastics research by examining temperate Mediterranean species.
Compounds of Marine Origin with Possible Applications as Healing Agents
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research; it reviews bioactive compounds from marine organisms and their potential applications in wound healing and cosmetic formulations, with no focus on plastic contamination.
Relationship between biological, ecological parameters and microplastic concentration in Mediterranean fish species
Researchers detected and characterized microplastics in five commercially important Mediterranean fish species -- including Mullus barbatus, Sardina pilchardus, and Trachinus draco -- and analyzed how biological parameters (length, weight) and ecological factors (diet, habitat) influenced microplastic contamination levels across species.
Assessing microplastic ingestion and occurrence of bisphenols and phthalates in bivalves, fish and holothurians from a Mediterranean marine protected area
Researchers assessed microplastic contamination and plastic-related chemicals in bivalves, fish, and sea cucumbers from a Mediterranean marine protected area. Sea cucumbers that feed on sediment contained the most microplastics, while bivalves accumulated the highest levels of chemical plasticizers like bisphenols and phthalates. The study shows that even organisms in protected marine areas are exposed to significant microplastic and plasticizer contamination.
Implications for the seafood industry, consumers and the environment arising from contamination of shellfish with pharmaceuticals, plastics and potentially toxic elements: A case study from Irish waters with a global orientation
Researchers assessed contamination of Irish shellfish with pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and potentially toxic elements, highlighting implications for seafood safety, consumer health, and the need for improved monitoring in shellfish-producing waters.
Microplastics in the Mediterranean marine environment: a combined bibliometric and systematic analysis to identify current trends and challenges
This systematic review analyzes microplastic research trends in the Mediterranean Sea region, where contamination levels are a growing concern. The study identifies key research areas and gaps in understanding how microplastics in this semi-enclosed sea affect marine life and could impact the health of the millions of people living along its coasts.
Impacto ambiental de productos dermatológicos: Una revisión sistemática sobre ecofarmacovigilancia.
Not relevant to microplastics — this Spanish-language systematic review examines the environmental impact of dermatological pharmaceutical products from an eco-pharmacovigilance perspective, focusing on how active drug compounds enter and affect ecosystems rather than microplastics specifically.
Bioindicators for monitoring marine litter ingestion and its impacts on Mediterranean biodiversity
Researchers reviewed existing knowledge of marine litter ingestion impacts on Mediterranean biodiversity and proposed a new integrated monitoring framework using bioindicator species, identifying major knowledge gaps in understudied habitats and sub-regions while outlining a threefold approach to simultaneously measure plastic presence and its sub-lethal effects on organisms.
Biodiversity at risk in the SPAMI Pelagos Sanctuary: The impact of marine litter on biota
Researchers surveyed 23 species in the Mediterranean's Pelagos Sanctuary and found that marine litter, including microplastics, poses widespread risks to biodiversity from small invertebrates to whales. They detected microplastics and plastic additives in the tissues of stranded marine animals and commercially fished species. The study highlights how microplastic contamination in marine protected areas can affect seafood safety and the health of ecosystems that coastal communities depend on.
Cellular and oxidative stress responses of Mytilus galloprovincialis to chlorpromazine: implications of an antipsychotic drug exposure study
This study examined how the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine affects Mediterranean mussels, finding that it reduced cell survival and disrupted antioxidant defenses even at very low concentrations found in the environment. While focused on pharmaceutical pollution rather than microplastics, the research is relevant because mussels are filter-feeders that also concentrate microplastics, and the combined exposure to drugs and plastics may compound toxic effects. The study highlights how multiple pollutants in marine environments can together threaten the safety of shellfish consumed by humans.