Determination of Oxidative Stress Responses in Dreissena polymorpha Exposed to Rare Earth Elements (Terbium, Lanthanum, Gadolinium and Praseodymium) with Temperature

The continuous development of industry pushes people to search for new resources, and for this reason, the usage areas of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are increasing day by day. Increasing concentrations of REEs, as a result of increased use, create pollution in the environment and harm living organisms. This pollution interacts with increasing temperature and causes more negative synergistic effects of the pollutant in the environment and in the living body. In this study, sublethal concentration values were determined by literature review and the concentration value was determined as 125 mg/L. In the present study tt was aimed to investigate some oxidative stress and antioxidant responses of Terbium, Lanthanum, Gadolinium and Praseodymium REEs in Dreissena polymorpha at 125 mg/L concentration at 3 different temperatures (16, 18, 20 0C) with biomarkers. For this purpose, 24 and 96 hour experimental trial design was created and 7 D. polymorpha were used in each trial group, and the application experiments were carried out with 3 replications. The samples at the end of the experimental phase were stored at -80 degrees Celsius until they were analyzed. In this study, Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) enzyme activities and glutathione (GSH) and Thiobarbituric acid (TBARS) level biomarker responses were determined by ELISA test microplate reader. CAYMAN brand SOD (Catalog No 706002), CAT Catalog No 707002) and GPx (Catalog No 703102), GSH (Catalog No 703002) and TBARS (Catalog No 10009055) were used in the study. SPSS 24.0 package program one-way ANOVA (Duncan 0.05) was used for the evaluation of biochemical analyzes. According to the study data, statistically significant decreases were observed in SOD and CAT activities in the oxidative stress responses of REEs on D. Polymorpha with increasing temperature, while there was no significant change in GPx activities. It was determined that there were increases in TBARS levels and decreases in GSH levels. It is thought that the temperature factor, application concentration and application time are effective in the formation of these changes. It can be said that temperature change and pollutants cause oxidative stress in organisms and cause cell damage.