KSU TARIM VE DOGA DERGISI-KSU JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURE, cilt.23, sa.1, ss.247-258, 2020 (ESCI)
Permanent organic pollutants (POPs) are chemicals that can remain intact in nature for a long time and affect the health of humans, animals and the environment. In this study, cytotoxicity and 7-Ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) activity of water (6 stations) and sediment (12 stations) samples collected from Ankara Stream for 12 months were evaluated on fish gonadal (RTG-2) and fish hepatocellular carcinoma (PLHC-1) cell lines. Cytotoxic activity were found to vary according to the sampling region and period. This study, provide important information for the methodology used in the detection of environmental contaminants and evaluation of pollution from environmental samples using sensitive, cheap, fast and trustable method by cytotoxicity and EROD activity in fish cells. It is recommended that these results could be optimized and used by legal authorities for risk evaluation