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When mussels are fed by filtration of sea water, they may be exposed to other factors such as toxic plankton, pesticide sand house hold wastes, as well as deposits of heavy metals in the environment. Among the group of metals with proven human toxicity aluminum (Al) and lead (Pb) are known to be highly neurotoxic. We could not find a study about spinal cord histopathological effects of consumption of mussels. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the histopathological effects in the medulla spinali tissues of rats which are fed with mussels that are collected from the Çamburnu region of the Dardanelles. The mussels given as food to the rats were removed from the Çamburnu region of the Dardanelles. Two groups of rats are included in the study, group 1 (n=6), control group fed with standard rat diet, group 2 (n=6), 90% mussels and 10% standart diet daily. Our research lasted 30 days. At the end of the study period, spinal cord tissue samples taken from the rats were taken through routine histopathological procedures and then light microscope was evaluated. Degeneration was detected in motor neurons in the anterior horn of the spinal cord and sensory neurons in the posterior horn. The rats in the study group were statistically significant compared to the degeneration control group of motor and sensory neurons. We think that the consumption of mussels is caused by the degeneration of motor and sensory neurons, the contraction of the Dardanelles with heavy metals and the accumulation of these heavy metals in the mussels.

International Rating Academy Congress : Applied Sciences
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Mehmet Rıza GEZEN Şamil ÖZTÜRK Hayrunnisa YEŞİL Aslı MURATLI