Shellfish: nutritive value, health benefits, and consumer safety

V Venugopal, K Gopakumar - … in Food Science and Food Safety, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Shellfish is a major component of global seafood production. Specific items include shrimp,
lobsters, oysters, mussels, scallops, clams, crabs, krill, crayfish, squid, cuttlefish, snails …

[HTML][HTML] Cadmium and lead exposure, nephrotoxicity, and mortality

S Satarug, G C. Gobe, D A. Vesey, KR Phelps - Toxics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The present review aims to provide an update on health risks associated with the low-to-
moderate levels of environmental cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) to which most populations …

Arsenic in the human food chain, biotransformation and toxicology–Review focusing on seafood arsenic

M Molin, SM Ulven, HM Meltzer, J Alexander - Journal of trace elements in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Fish and seafood are main contributors of arsenic (As) in the diet. The dominating arsenical
is the organoarsenical arsenobetaine (AB), found particularly in finfish. Algae, blue mussels …

Microplastic in oysters: A review of global trends and comparison to southern Australia

N Wootton, K Sarakinis, R Varea, P Reis-Santos… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics have been documented in a plethora of marine environments and organisms.
These small plastics threaten ecosystem health, with implications for seafood species' …

Fish, a Mediterranean source of n-3 PUFA: benefits do not justify limiting consumption

A Gil, F Gil - British Journal of Nutrition, 2015 - cambridge.org
Fish is an important source of energy, high-quality proteins, fat, vitamins and minerals.
Within lipids, n-3 long-chain PUFA (n-3 LC PUFA), mainly EPA and DHA, play an important …

Aquaglyceroporins: generalized metalloid channels

R Mukhopadhyay, H Bhattacharjee… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Aquaporins (AQPs), members of a superfamily of transmembrane
channel proteins, are ubiquitous in all domains of life. They fall into a number of branches …

Infant and mother related outcomes from exposure to metals with endocrine disrupting properties during pregnancy

A Rahman, P Kumarathasan, J Gomes - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Endocrine-related adverse health effects from exposure to heavy metals such
as lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury are yet to be adequately described. The purpose of …

Mercury exposure and its effects on fertility and pregnancy outcome

G Bjørklund, S Chirumbolo, M Dadar… - Basic & clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mercury (Hg), a highly toxic environmental pollutant, shows harmfulness which still
represents a big concern for human health, including hazards to fertility and pregnancy …

Microplastics accumulation and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in Marcia opima and Lingula anatina, Phuket

P Akkajit, A Khongsang, B Thongnonghin - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The concerns over potential health risk from the consumption of Marcia opima (M. optima)
and lingulata (Lingula anatina) contaminated by heavy metals (Cd, Pb and Zn) and …

As, Cd, Hg and Pb in four edible shellfish species from breeding and harvesting areas along the eastern Adriatic Coast, Croatia

T Bogdanović, I Ujević, M Sedak, E Listeš, V Šimat… - Food chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Four species of shellfish (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Ostrea edulis, Chlamis varia and Venus
verrucosa) were collected during the autumn 2011 and spring 2012 along the eastern …