Macrovipera Lebetina Obtusa Venom as a Biological Indicator of Environmental Pollution

In this research, the effect of environmental pollution factors on Caucasian Macrovipera Lebetina Obtus? venom was studied. The readings of radionuclide activity of the snake venom captured in the neighborhood of Baku and in Absheron Peninsula of Azerbaijan were taken at Camberra spectrometer. An unessential composition of Ra 228, Cs 137, ?40 and Ra226 radioactive elements was detected in the samples. It was revealed that biogeocenosis pollution by radioactive substances could be considered as a new abiotic factor of living organisms’ habitation area effecting on biosynthesis products of snake venom gland. ?t was established by method of atom-absorbing spectrometry that the maintenance of heavy metals in venom of snake changes depending on degree of impurity of district of dwelling and corresponds: Pb (49.13-134.9), Zn (360.8- 863.6), Cd (1.6-1.9) mg/kg. Natural radioactive elements- isotopes Ra226, Ra 228 and K40 in investigated samples has been revealed. Insignificant activity of isotope Ra 228 and Ra226 in investigated samples was defined, minimum concentration of radionuclides was 0.174 Bk/g and 2.48 Bk/g. Minimum radiating ?ctivity of isotope Ra226 was in limits 0.539663Bk/g. The minimum radiating activity of isotope K40 was 1.44382Bk/g and activity of other isotopes was insignificant.