Evaluation of water quality control by using test organisms and their cells

Abstract

The use of biotesting for quality assessment of different waters. This method consists in determining the action of toxicants on specially selected organisms under standard conditions with registration of changes at behavioral, physiological, cellular and subcellular levels. A micronucleus test and Arneth’s formula as a biomarker were proposed for an optimal set used to determine specific structural and functional changes in the cell genome caused by toxic effects. A particular attention was paid to assessing the risk to human health of those factors and substances, the genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of which can be identified by using biomarkers of plant and animal cells.