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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...