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Mollusks and Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Chemistry, 2017
When you read about the relationship of science and the arts, you most often are presented with accounts of how the arts have been used to reflect science or scientific thought. In other words, the science comes before the art. Examples include paintings of surgeons in the operating theater, anatomists studying a human cadaver, the grand entrances of ...
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First application of a droplet digital PCR to detect Toxoplasma gondii in mussels

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Toxoplasmosis, caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, is one of the main food-, water- and soil-borne zoonotic disease worldwide. Over the past 20 years many papers were published on the transmission of T. gondii by marine animals, including mollusks,
Andrea Mancusi   +10 more
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Barbatic Acid Offers a New Possibility for Control of Biomphalaria Glabrata and Schistosomiasis

open access: yesMolecules, 2017
This study evaluated the biological activity of an ether extract and barbatic acid (BAR) from Cladia aggregata on embryos and adult mollusks of Biomphalaria glabrata, cercariae of Schistosoma mansoni and the microcrustacean Artemia salina.
Mônica Cristina Barroso Martins   +9 more
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Decline of unique Pontocaspian biodiversity in the Black Sea Basin: A review

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
The unique aquatic Pontocaspian (PC) biota of the Black Sea Basin (BSB) is in decline. The lack of detailed knowledge on the status and trends of species, populations, and communities hampers a thorough risk assessment and precludes effective ...
Aleksandre Gogaladze   +18 more
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An Overview of Antibiotics as Emerging Contaminants: Occurrence in Bivalves as Biomonitoring Organisms

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Antibiotics are used for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes in both human and veterinary medicine and as growth promoting agents in farms and aquaculture.
Elena Baralla   +3 more
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Anticancer Potential of Lipophilic Constituents of Eleven Shellfish Species Commonly Consumed in Korea

open access: yesAntioxidants, 2021
The present study was aimed to investigate the composition and contents and the major lipophilic compounds, including the sterols, fatty acids, and tocols of shellfish species. Moreover, to explore the antitumor activity of these lipophilic constituents,
Juhyun Shin   +7 more
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Photosensitive neurons in mollusks [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Biological Sciences, 2003
In addition to regular photoreceptors, some invertebrates possess simple extra ocular photoreceptors. For ex?ample, the central ganglia of mollusks contain photosensitive neurons. These neurons are located on the dorsal surface of the ganglia and based on their electrophysiological properties it has been postulated that they are internal photoreceptors.
Gordana Kartelija   +2 more
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Lower miocene stratigraphy of the Eastern Paratethys: Problems and state of the art [PDF]

open access: yesGeološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva
The Lower Miocene regional stages of the Eastern Paratethys, the Caucasian, Sakaraulian, and Kozakhurian, have been recognized in different structural facies zones of the basin and have no reliable universal stratigraphic basis for defining their ...
Golovina Larisa   +5 more
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NEW DATA ON THE LOWER PLEISTOCENE (GELASIAN) LIGNITE BEDS OF CASTEL SAN PIETRO (RIETI, CENTRAL ITALY)

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017
A multiproxy study of the lignite-bearing lacustrine sequence cropping out at Castel San Pietro (CSP) (Rieti, central Italy) provides new insights on the paleoenvironmental evolution of an extensional basin, located on the Tyrrhenian side of the Apennine
LUCA PANDOLFI   +4 more
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DNA Barcoding of Marine Mollusks Associated with Corallina officinalis Turfs in Southern Istria (Adriatic Sea)

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
Presence of mollusk assemblages was studied within red coralligenous algae Corallina officinalis L. along the southern Istrian coast. C. officinalis turfs can be considered a biodiversity reservoir, as they shelter numerous invertebrate species.
Moira Buršić   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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