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Roberta Trani, Giuseppe Corriero, Maria Concetta de Pinto, Maria Mercurio, Carlo Pazzani, Cataldo Pierri, Maria Scrascia and Caterina Longo
Sponges are an important constituent of filter-feeder benthic communities, characterized by high ecological plasticity and abundance. Free bacteria constitute an important quota of their diet, making them excellent candidates in aquaculture microbial bio...
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Marco Munari, Valerio Matozzo, Verena Riedl, Paolo Pastore, Denis Badocco and Maria Gabriella Marin
Combined effects of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac and lowered seawater pH were assessed on the physiological responses of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. Bivalves were exposed for 1 week to natural pH (8.1) and two reduced pH v...
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Curtis Harris, Cham Dallas, Edward Rollor III, Catherine White, Benjamin Blount, Liza Valentin-Blasini and Jeffrey Fisher
Radioactive iodide (131I-) protection studies have focused primarily on the thyroid gland and disturbances in the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. The objective of the current study was to establish 131I- urinary excretion profiles for saline, and th...
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Carolina C. Martins, Saul M. Paiva and Jaime A. Cury
As there is no homeostatic mechanism for maintaining circulating fluoride (F) in the human body, the concentration may decrease and increase again when intake is interrupted and re-started. The present study prospectively evaluated this process in childr...
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Larry E. Chase and Riccardo Fortina
The dairy industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental impact while producing more milk to meet society?s needs. Precision feed management (PFM) is one tool that can be used to meet this challenge. A simple definition of PFM is to provide adequ...
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Charles P. Madenjian, James T. Francis, Jeffrey J. Braunscheidel, Joseph R. Bohr, Matthew J. Geiger and G. Mark Knottnerus
Patterns in relative differences in contaminant concentrations between the sexes across many species of fish may reveal clues for important behavioral and physiological differences between the sexes, and may also be useful in developing fish consumption ...
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Sarmini Maheswaran, Lydia M. Cranston, James P. Millner, David J. Horne, James A. Hanly, Paul R. Kenyon and Peter D. Kemp
This article reviews the literature on nitrate leaching under sheep grazing systems and focuses on identifying future research needs. Urinary nitrogen (N) is an important source of the nitrate leached from pastoral agriculture. Urinary N excretion can be...
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Carmela Protano, Roberta Andreoli, Antonio Mutti, Maurizio Manigrasso, Pasquale Avino and Matteo Vitali
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C. T. Wolmarans, K. N. de Kock
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Urinary schistosomiasis is a disease caused by the worm parasite Schistosoma haematobium. Approximately 3 million people of whom the majority are children, staying in the sub-tropical areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu-Natal provinces, ...
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C. T. Wolmarans, K. N. de Kock
Pág. 130 - 144
Urinary schistosomiasis is a disease caused by the worm parasite Schistosoma haematobium. Approximately 3 million people of whom the majority are children, staying in the sub-tropical areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu-Natal provinces, ...
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Simon Brown,Delwyn G. Cooke,Leonard F. Blackwell,David C. Simcock
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The use of urinary analytes to monitor physiological processes relies on making the correct measurement. Three alternatives are commonly contemplated: concentration, creatinine-corrected concentration and excretion rate. Of these, the latter ...
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Guillaume Bernard, Laura Kauppi, Nicolas Lavesque, Aurélie Ciutat, Antoine Grémare, Cécile Massé and Olivier Maire
The invasive mussel Arcuatula senhousia has successfully colonized shallow soft sediments worldwide. This filter feeding mussel modifies sedimentary habitats while forming dense populations and efficiently contributes to nutrient cycling. In the present ...
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Stefan Shilev
Soil deterioration has led to problems with the nutrition of the world?s population. As one of the most serious stressors, soil salinization has a negative effect on the quantity and quality of agricultural production, drawing attention to the need for e...
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Michael B. Griffith, James M. Lazorchak and Herman Haring
To better understand how the sulfate (SO42-) anion may contribute to the adverse effects associated with elevated ionic strength or salinity in freshwaters, we measured the uptake and efflux of SO42- in four freshwater species: the fathead minnow (Pimeph...
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Swaran J.S. Flora and Vidhu Pachauri
Chelation therapy is the preferred medical treatment for reducing the toxic effects of metals. Chelating agents are capable of binding to toxic metal ions to form complex structures which are easily excreted from the body removing them from intracellular...
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Rudy Benetti, Tobia Politi, Marco Bartoli and Nerijus Nika
In situ evaluations of the metabolic rates (i.e., respiration and excretion) of salmonid eggs are mostly indirect, focusing on the sampling of hyporheic water from wild or artificial nests. Comparatively, experimental studies carried out under controlled...
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Ruihong Sun, Changhai Zhou, Yougang Jia, Yumei Li, Yuntong He, Haoyu Che, Yonghong Zhang, Jing Zhang and Dongqiao Peng
The issue of nitrogen fertilizer contamination resulting from high-protein diets can be effectively solved by adopting low-protein diets. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of inorganic zinc supplementation in low-protein diets on...
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Min-Ho Lee, Sunyeong Park, Yinzhu Xu, Jung-Eun Kim, Hengmin Han, Jae-Hyeon Lee, Jean Kyung Paik and Hyo-Jeong Lee
Pinus koraiensis is a valuable plant source of functional health foods and medicinal materials. Hypertriglyceridemia affects about 15?20% of adults and is related to stroke, metabolic syndromes, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes mellitus. Dietary fru...
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Kazuo Shiomi
Focusing on tetramine, tetramethylammonium ion, contained in the salivary glands of marine carnivorous snails, this paper gives an overview of analytical methods, distribution in marine snails, and toxicological aspects. Some Neptunea snails have often c...
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Matthew Flavel, Timothy P. Ellis, Lauren Stahl, Denovan Begg, Jason Smythe, Leodevico L. Ilag, Richard S. Weisinger, Barry Kitchen and Markandeya Jois
Background: Energy-dense diets have been implicated as a driving force in the global obesity crisis. Sucrose derived from sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) is a carbohydrate source at the centre of this discussion. However, sugar cane is a complex plant...
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