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Shellfish Tissue Monitoring in Piscataqua Region Estuaries 2013 [PDF]

, 2013
Originally conducted by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment from 1993 to 2011, the Gulfwatch Program examined trends in the water quality of the Gulf of Maine by monitoring toxic contaminant concentrations in the tissues of shellfish ...
Trowbridge, Philip R., Wood, Matthew A.
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Organochlorine pesticide levels in Greek patients with Parkinson’s disease

Toxicology Reports, 2020
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease, mostly presenting with characteristic motor symptoms. Organochlorines (OC) are a class of widely-used pesticides that have been included among the list of environmental factors ...
Efthimios Dardiotis, Athina-Maria Aloizou, Evagelos Sakalakis, Vasileios Siokas, Michalis Koureas, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Efthymia Petinaki, Martin Wilks, Aristidis Tsatsakis, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Leonidas Stefanis, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou   +11 more
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Halogenated Compounds and Carcinogenesis: An Integrative Review of Their Role and Therapeutic Options

NUST Journal of Natural Sciences, 2023
Halogenated compounds, a significant category of chemicals, have been identified as contributors to the development and progression of cancer inside the human body. The elimination of these compounds poses considerable challenges.
Hina Kausar, Muhammad Abubakar, Sarmad Habib Khan , Bisma Khalil, Saadia Sharif   +4 more
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Efeito de alterações nas características do solo sobre a degradação de hexaclorobenzeno Effects of soil characteristics on hexachlorobenzene degradation

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2006
Alterações das características de solo contaminado com hexaclorobenzeno foram promovidas para estudo dos efeitos sobre a comunidade microbiana e sobre a degradação do composto.
Lia Emi Nakagawa, Mara Mercedes de Andréa   +1 more
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Cytogenetic anomalies of winter wheat cells, induced by chemical contamination of the territory of Kalush industrial district

Regulatory Mechanisms in Biosystems, 2018
Mass accumulation of toxic waste near inhabited localities has changed some regions of Ukraine, in particular Kalush industrial area (Ivano-Frankivsk region), into zones of ecological disaster.
V. V. Morgun, R. A. Yakymchuk
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The effect of desferrioxamine on iron metabolism and lipid peroxidation in hepatocytes of C57BL/10 mice in experimental uroporphyria [PDF]

, 1993
The effects of the iron chelator desferrioxamine (DFx) on liver iron accumulation, malondialdehyde (MDA) production, porphyrin accumulation and uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase (URO-D; EC 4.1.1.37) activity were investigated over a period of 14 weeks in ...
Eijk, H.G. (Henk) van, Jeu-Jaspars, C.M.H. (Nel) de, Koster, J.F. (Johan), Rooy, F.W.M. (F. W M) de, Siersema, P.D. (Peter), Van Gelder, C.M. (Carin), Voogd, A. (Arthur), Wilson, J.H.P. (Paul)   +7 more
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Persistent organic pollutants in the Atlantic and southern oceans and oceanic atmosphere [PDF]

, 2017
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) continue to cycle through the atmosphere and hydrosphere despite banned or severely restricted usages. Global scale analyses of POPs are challenging, but knowledge of the current distribution of these compounds is ...
Cochran, Michele A., Dickhut, Rebecca M., Falconer, Renee L., Kylin, Henrik, Luek, Jenna L.   +4 more
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Oxidative Damage, Energy Imbalance, and Behavioral Disruptions in Girardia tigrina Exposed to Treated Sewage Effluents

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study assessed the ecotoxicological effects of treated sewage on the freshwater planarian Girardia tigrina, integrating biochemical, energetic, and behavioral biomarkers. Planarians were exposed for 48 h to different concentrations of treated sewage (12.5%, 25%, 50%, and 100%) and compared to controls using commercial water and water from
Renata M. P. Freitas, Pedro H. Carvalho, Daniela de Melo e Silva, Carlos Gravato   +3 more
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Quantum Chemical Studies on the Adsorption of Hexachlorobenzene, Decachlorobiphenyl, Benzene, and Biphenyl by BN-Doped Graphene and C-Doped Hexagonal Boron Nitride Modified with β-Cyclodextrin

Crystals, 2023
In this study, the adsorption of aromatic organic pollutants such as hexachlorobenzene, decachlorobiphenyl, benzene, and biphenyl by 2D nanomaterials was investigated using quantum chemical methods.
Chien-Lin Lee, Tai-Chao Chang, Chia Ming Chang   +2 more
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Three years (2008-2010) of measurements of atmospheric concentrations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) at Station Nord, North-East Greenland [PDF]

, 2013
Atmospheric concentrations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been measured for the first time at Station Nord, North-East Greenland, from 2008 to 2010. The data obtained are reported here.
Bossi, R., Skjoth, C. A., Skov, H.
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