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Comprehensive toxicity assessment of nanodiamond on Blaps polychresta:implications and novel findings
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With the increasing development of nanomaterials,the use of nanodiamonds(NDs)has been broadly manifested in many applications.However,their high penetration into the ecosystem indubitably poses remarkable toxicological risks.This paper investi-gates the toxic effects of NDs on the darkling beetle,Blaps polychresta Forskal,1775(Coleoptera:Tenebrionidae).Survival analysis was carried out by monitoring the beetles for 30 d after the injection of four different doses of NDs.A dose of 10.0 mg NDs/g body weight,causing less than 50％mortality effect,was assigned in the analysis of the different organs of studied beetles,including testis,ovary,and midgut.Structural and ul-trastructural analyses were followed using light,TEM,and SEM microscopes.In addition,a variety of stress markers and enzyme activities were assessed using spectrophotomet-ric methods.Furthermore,cell viability and DNA damage were evaluated using cytome-try and comet assay,respectively.Compared to the control group,the NDs-treated group was exposed to various abnormalities within all the studied organs as follows.Significant disturbances in enzyme activities were accompanied by an apparent dysregulation in the antioxidant system.The flow cytometry results indicated a substantial decrease of viable cells along with a rise of apoptotic and necrotic cells.The comet assay demonstrated a highly increased level of DNA damage.Likewise,histological analyses accentuated the same findings showing remarkable deformities in the studied organs.Prominently,the re-search findings substantially contribute for the first time to evaluating the critical effects of NDs on B.polychresta,adopted as the bioindicator in this paper.
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