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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 ...
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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...