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Sediment Contamination and Toxicity in the Guadalquivir River (Southwest, Spain)

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
A segment of the Guadalquivir River was assessed between the Alcalá del Río dam and Seville through an integrative sediment quality assessment. Chemical concentrations of metals and toxicity under laboratory conditions were used as lines of evidence.
Inmaculada Riba   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ignoring Adjuvant Toxicity Falsifies the Safety Profile of Commercial Pesticides

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2018
Commercial formulations of pesticides are invariably not single ingredients. Instead they are cocktails of chemicals, composed of a designated pesticidal “active principle” and “other ingredients,” with the latter collectively also known as “adjuvants ...
Robin Mesnage, Michael N. Antoniou
doaj   +1 more source

Wastewater canal Vojlovica, industrial complex Pančevo, Serbia – preliminary ecotoxicological assessment of contaminated sediment [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 2011
Effluents collected from the industrial complex of Pančevo, Serbia (oil refinery, petrochemical plant, and fertilizer factory), are discharged into a wastewater canal entering the Danube River.
IVANA PLANOJEVIĆ   +8 more
doaj  

Seasonal Changes and Toxic Potency of Landfill Leachate for White Mustard (Sinapis alba L.)

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2018
Landfills are the most broadly used methods for the disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW). Leachate can be contaminated with pollutants that may pose a threat to the landfill surrounding namely soil, groundwater and surface waters..
Jan Zloch   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

State of the science and the way forward for the ecotoxicological assessment of contaminated land Estado da arte e perspectivas da avaliação ecotoxicológica de áreas contaminadas

open access: yesPesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2009
Over the past two decades, soil ecotoxicologists have made strides in utilizing the basic concepts and advancements in soil zoology and ecology. They have applied the existing tools, and developed new ones to investigate how chemical contamination can ...
Roman G. Kuperman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life history traits of the exotic freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata Müller, 1774 (Gastropoda, Thiaridae), and its sensitivity to common stressors in freshwaters

open access: yesActa Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2020
: Aim In the present study has analyzed several aspects of the life history traits of Melanoides tuberculata, an exotic species, under laboratory conditions, and its response to some stressors has also been applied.
Denise Tieme Okumura, Odete Rocha
doaj   +1 more source

Toxicity of pesticides and their mixture to primary producers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The earth’s aquatic ecosystems are threatened by the contamination with a multitude of anthropogenic chemical pollutants. Pesticides are one important group of environmental contaminants.
Knauert, Stefanie
core   +1 more source

Safety Assessment of Lactobacillus paracasei IBRC-M 11110 in Wistar rats: a subacute 28-day toxicity study

open access: yesMedical Laboratory Journal, 2021
Background and objectives:  Safety is a key criterion for assessment of probiotics. The objective of this study was to evaluate safety of a new Iranian Lactobacillus paracasei IBRC-M 11110 strain as a candidate probiotic.
Saba Bahrevar   +3 more
doaj  

Data-Based Radiation Oncology: Design of Clinical Trials in the Toxicity Biomarkers Era

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2017
The ability to stratify patients using a set of biomarkers, which predict that toxicity risk would allow for radiotherapy (RT) modulation and serve as a valuable tool for precision medicine and personalized RT.
David Azria   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cobalt toxicity in anaerobic granular sludge: influence of chemical speciation

open access: yes, 2008
The influence of cobalt speciation on the toxicity of cobalt to methylotrophic methanogenesis in anaerobic granular sludge was investigated. The cobalt speciation was studied with three different media that contained varying concentrations of complexing ...
Hullebusch, E.D., van   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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