Seasonal changes in mRNA encoding for cell stress markers in the oyster Crassostrea gigas exposed to radioactive discharges in their natural environment

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Farcy, E., Voiseux, C., Lebel, J.-M., Fiévet, B.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Radioécologie de Cherbourg-Octeville (IRSN/PSE-ENV/SRTE/LRC), Service de recherche sur les transferts et les effets des radionucléides sur les écosystèmes (IRSN/PSE-ENV/SRTE), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)-Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: Animal cell culture; Environmental protection; Genes; Marine engineering; Radioactive wastes; RNA; Crassostrea gigas; Heat shock proteins; Metallothionein; mRNA; Radioactive discharges; Seasonal variations; Superoxide dismutase; Climate change; heat shock protein 70; heat shock protein 72; heat shock protein 90; messenger RNA; biomarker; bivalve; discharge; gene expression; marine environment; pollution effect; pollution exposure; radioactive waste; radioactivity; radionuclide; seasonal variation; article; atmospheric radioactivity; biota; cell stress; correlation analysis; evaluation; France; liquid; nonhuman; oyster; priority journal; protein expression; real time polymerase chain reaction; season; Animals; Biological Markers; Crassostrea; Environmental Monitoring; Areva
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03008517; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.11.014

The North Cotentin area (Normandy, France) hosts several nuclear facilities among which the AREVA reprocessing plant of La Hague is responsible for controlled discharges of liquid radioactive wastes into the marine environment. The resulting increase in radioactivity is very small compared to natura...