BioDiscovery : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Maya Stoyneva-Gärtner (mstoyneva@uni-sofia.bg)
Received: 22 Aug 2017 | Published: 24 Aug 2017
© 2017 Maya Stoyneva-Gärtner, Blagoy Uzunov, Petya Dimitrova
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Citation: Stoyneva-Gärtner M, Uzunov B, Dimitrova P (2017) Pilot assessment of cyanotoxins as potential risk factors for cancer in Bulgaria. BioDiscovery 20: e20501. https://doi.org/10.3897/biodiscovery.20.e20501
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Cyanoprokaryotes (=cyanobacteria, blue-green algae) are the most ancient oxygen-producing phototrophic microorganisms, spread all over the Globe, which form the important basis of different food chains in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. However, due to strong anthropogenic pressure during the last decades they are also responsible for causing nuisance algal blooms in different water bodies with deleterious effects on the mankind and ecosystems mainly due to production of toxic substances (cyanotoxins). Amongst them are the microcystins, nodularins, lyngbyatoxins and aplysiatoxins, known as tumor-promotors with increase of exposure routes through which humans and animals can be placed at risk (
The pilot assessment is made on the basis of comparison of the general regions of spread of cyanotoxins in Bulgarian water bodies and toxin-producing cyanospecies during the period 2000-2017 (
The comparison shows general conformities between the spread of the “most dangerous” water bodies and main regions of cancer diseases in the country. The results obtained served as a basis for a new project proposal which aims at a deepening of the studies for improvement of prevention of cancer in the country.
algae, cyanotoxins, harmful blooms
M. P. Stoyneva-Gärtner
World Biodiscovery Congress 2017, 17-19 July 2017, Sofia
Authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding this publication.