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The introduction of anthropogenic factors is known to affect various physiological/biochemical metabolic processess in organisms. Altered metabolic rate, if not compensated by adaptive mechanisms of the organisms, may affect it’s survival and/or reproduction. Any contaminant which may impair the metabolic function beyond the compensatory limit will cause severe stress and disability in the normal functioning of the organism. Such xenobiotically-induced variation in cellular or biochemical processes and function in an organism can be detected by certain assays termed as ‘biomarkers’. With the help of biomarkers it is possible to search that interaction between contaminants and organism have taken place.
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Mustafa, T. (1997). Animal Biomarkers as Stress Indicators: Assessing the Health of Organisms in the Environment. In: Haq, B.U., Haq, S.M., Kullenberg, G., Stel, J.H. (eds) Coastal Zone Management Imperative for Maritime Developing Nations. Coastal Systems and Continental Margins, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1066-4_11
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