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Quality Assessment of Waterside River, Ogbor Hill Aba 4: Effect of Three-Point Samples on Hepatic Histo-Morphology and Some Seric Bio-Functional Indicators of Wistar Rats

2018; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20431/2454-9444.0401008

2454-9444

Anthony Cemaluk, Anthony Cemaluk C. Egbuonu, Okechukwu Atasie, Chimaroke Onyeabo, Nancy Uchenna,

Animal Diversity and Health Studies

Water quality is critical to overall animal physiology [1] .And, to a large extent, it depends on the water source, prevailing environmental factors and human activities [2,3] .Water pollution resulting from environmental factors as well as human and industrial activities could be worsened with poor urban sewage system and consequent seepage of wastes to streams [4] along with heavy metals can enter streams.Heavy metals are not biodegradable hence could bioaccumulate to exert varied toxic influences in animals, aside compromising the water quality or potability [5][6][7][8][9][10] .Thus, the seepage of heavy metals into streams is a significant environmental problem hence worrisome [11,12] .Either banks of waterside River Ogbor hill Aba traverse the rear of many factories, including breweries, soaps and detergents factories.This coupled with activities peculiar to abattoirs (hide and skin burning), auto mechanic workshops, human wastes, and general refuse disposal by the teaming inhabitants in the densely populated waterside area could predispose WRO to contamination and pollution.Earlier reports indicated acidic property of the WRO samples and attendant adverse influences on indicators of hematological and kidney functions [13,14] .