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    Effect of arsenic compounds on Vibrio fischeri light emission and butyrylcholinesterase activity

    The effect of organic arsenic compounds and inorganic As(V) and As(III) on Vibrio fischeri luminescence and butyrylcholinesterase activity were evaluated using Microtox and microcalorimetric analysis. Organic ars...

    E. Fulladosa, J. Debord, I. Villaescusa, J. C. Bollinger in Environmental Chemistry Letters (2007)

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    Cultured Human Cells as Biological Detectors for Assessing Environmental Toxicity

    The presented investigations were carried out in order to detect environmental pollutants using the HT29, HepG2 and A549 cultured human cells as biological sensors of toxicity. We measured the growth rate inhi...

    E. Fulladosa, Y. Gaubin, D. Skandrani, I. Villaescusa in Environmental Chemistry (2005)

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    Study of Cr(VI) and Cd(II) Ions Toxicity Using the Microtox Bacterial Bioassay

    The Microtox® bioassay, based upon the fading of light emitted by the luminescent bacteria Vibrio fischeri when exposed to noxious substances, was used for studying the changes in speciation and the related chang...

    E. Fulladosa, I. Villaescusa, M. Martínez, J.-C. Murat in Environmental Chemistry (2005)

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    Evaluation of lead(II) and nickel(II) toxicity in NaCl and NaClO4 solutions by using MicrotoxR bioassay

    The toxicity of nickel and lead compounds has been evaluated in NaCl and NaClO4 solutions by using the MicrotoxR bioassay. The aim of this work was to assess the toxicity of the different species in solution whe...

    I. Villaescusa, C. Matas, C. Hosta in Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry (1998)

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    Expression of stress proteins in cultured human cells as a sensitive indicator of metal toxicity

    Human cell lines cultured under standardized conditions are found to react after a wide variety of aggressive but sub-lethal treatments by expressing stress proteins, mainly of the HSP68, HSP70 and HSP90 famil...

    F. Delmas, V. Trocheris, C. Miro, J. C. Murat in Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry (1996)

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    Toxicity of cadmium species on luminescent bacteria

    The toxicity of cadmium compounds against luminescent bacteria has been measured using the MicrotoxR toxicity bioassay and has been related to the cadmium species. Since the MicrotoxR test is carried out in NaCl ...

    I. Villaescusa, M. Pilar, C. Hosta in Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry (1996)