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REVIEW article

Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Marine Pollution
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1500870
This article is part of the Research Topic Impact of Heavy Metal on Aquatic Life and Human Health View all 5 articles

Effect of fish-heavy metals contamination on the generation of reactive oxygen species and its implications on human health: A review

Provisionally accepted
Yuxia Wang Yuxia Wang 1Anwar Noman Anwar Noman 2*Chao Zhang Chao Zhang 1Wedad Q Al-Bukhaiti Wedad Q Al-Bukhaiti 3Sherif M Abed Sherif M Abed 4
  • 1 Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China
  • 2 Sana'a University, Sana'a, Sanaa, Yemen
  • 3 South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • 4 Arish University, Elarish, Egypt

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    Heavy metals (HMs) contamination significantly threatens plants, animals, aquatic ecosystems, and public health. HMs' accumulation in aquatic environments has become a serious environmental issue due to their high stability, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification properties. These metals enter ecosystems through both natural sources and/or human activities. The toxicity of HMs poses a threat to the aquaculture sector's sustainability by negatively affecting fish growth, reproduction, and overall physiology.Exposure to HMs in various forms can cause environmental damage, which may affect human health through direct poisoning symptoms or other adverse effects. One such effect is the increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), crucial metabolites that modulate the functions of pathogenic organisms and lead to oxidative stress. This, in turn, can contribute to the onset and exacerbation of numerous diseases that threaten human health. This review article examines the potential sources of HMs contamination in aquatic organisms, the impact of this contamination on the generation of ROS, and the implications for human health resulting from the consumption of contaminated aquatic products.

    Keywords: heavy metals, Fish contamination, Reactive Oxygen Species, Oxidative Stress, Human health

    Received: 24 Sep 2024; Accepted: 12 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wang, Noman, Zhang, Al-Bukhaiti and Abed. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Anwar Noman, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Sanaa, Yemen

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