ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT CAN ALTER VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT CAN ALTER VARIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS

Kerala university zoology department research scholar Divya R Tobas had reveiled that the environmental contaminant can alter various physiological functions including hypothyroid effects in organisams. The study recently won the award for best poster presentation at the international symposium on comparative endocrinology and stress physiology organiused by the department recently. Ammonium per chrolorite a toxic compound commonly used in solid propellents, is and environmental contaminant. Studies reveled that the level of this compound in our groung water system is increasing tremendously.

The experiment model used for the study was climbing perch(Kithakora), a fresh water fish that was accalimatesoce  in the laboratory in both fresh water and saline water samples introduced with varied doses of ammonium per chrpolate for 48 hours. ‘Ammonium per chrolarate is a major oxidizer and is highly water soluable, it readily dissociation in water and noted for its wide spread distruburtion in surface and ground water. ’. industrial effluent is the main source of ammonium per chrolate found in ground water. The study clearly reviled that ammonium per chlorate can alter various physiological functions like hypothyroidsm and homeostartsis by disrupting sodium pump activity in mammals including humans. 

                                                                                                       Prof. John Kurakar