Open AccessPossible Deleterious Impact of Glyphosate and its Commercial Formulation in Reproductive Health of Fishes
Author(s) -
Isadora Argou-Cardozo,
Fares Zeidán-Chuliá
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2544-9818
DOI - 10.2478/medu-2019-0017
Subject(s) - glyphosate , environmental health , agriculture , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , medline , disease , lawn , gerontology , medicine , toxicology , ecology , fishery , pathology , biochemistry
Glyphosate (GLY) is the active ingredient of Roundup ® and it is the most utilized herbicide worldwide in the maintenance of conventional agricultural crops, and lawns in parks. A growing number of studies have associated environmental GLY to different pathologies such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and autism. Different fish species have been used for a long time as experimental biological models to measure the environmental impact of different substances. Therefore, the present study approached the possible association between the exposure to GLY / Roundup ® and the ecotoxicological impact on fish reproductive health. With this goal, we performed a comprehensive analysis of the literature and its content by systematic review of international databases. Two independent electronic searches were performed on Medline / PubMed and Scielo for identifying relevant studies published in English up to September 2019. The application of inclusion / exclusion criteria settled the boundaries for this systematic review and after qualitative analysis of the data; we found evidences that suggest a link between the exposure to GLY / Roundup ® with deleterious effects on reproductive health in eight different species of fish.