CHIARA GAMBARDELLA

In this work we investigated the possibility of using living cells as stress sensing material in biosensors, in the light of the three Rs principle – Replacement, Reduction and Refinement . This approach requires the necessity to cultivate them on biocompatible electrical conducting substrate and to insert the circuit into a culture chamber...

The brine shrimp Artemia was used as a model organism to test toxicity of several neuroactive pesticides (chlorpyrifos (CLP), chlorpyrifos oxon (CLP ox), diazinon (DZN), carbaryl (CBR)) following exposure to far below than lethal doses. Cysts were exposed to the pesticides in order to test a scenario similar to actual coastal environment...

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Plastic debris accumulates in the marine environment, fragmenting into microplastics (MP), causing concern about their potential toxic effects when ingested by marine organisms. The aim of this study was to verify whether 0.1 μm polystyrene beads are likely to trigger lethal and sub-lethal responses in marine planktonic crustaceans. MP...