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Ecotoxicity of plant extracts and essential oils: a review
Ferraz, C.; Palmeira de Oliveira, A.; Pastorinho, M. Ramiro; Sousa, Ana C.A.Plant-based products such as essential oils and other extracts have been used for centuries due to their beneficial properties. Currently, their use is widely disseminated through a variety of industries and new applications are continuously emerging. For these reasons, they are produced industrially in large quantities and consequently they have the potential to reach the environment. However, the potential ef...
Mercury exposure in Portuguese adolescents
Namorado, Sónia; Gomes, Diogo; Iria, Diogo; Cestelli, Federico; Mota, Afonso; Alves, Bernardo; Leal, João; Luz, Andreia; Gomes, João; Barros, RafaelThe possible health effects related to exposure to hazardous chemicals have let to citizens interest in environmental health. Mercury, in particular, has been recognized as a chemical of concern, due to its well-known neurotoxicity and endocrine disrupting potential. In this work a group of teenagers from a school in Lisbon together with their teachers and researchers from the academia conducted a human biomoni...
Supported ionic liquids for the efficient removal of acetylsalicylic acid from ...
Bernardo, Sandra C.; Araújo, Beatriz R.; Sousa, Ana C.A.; Barros, R.; Cristóvão, Ana C.; Neves, Márcia C.; Freire, Mara G.Acetylsalicylic acid, commercially available as aspirin, is one of the most used drugs in the world, being detected in several environmental compartments, including drinking water supplies. Given its environmental impact, the development of a cost‐effective technology capable of removing this pharmaceutical from water samples is of high relevance, for which materials based on silica chemically modified with ion...
New strategies for the removal of mycophenolate mofetil from aqueous solutions
Francisco, Rafael; Santos, Ana C. A.; Silva, Francisca A. e; Neves, Márcia C.; Sousa, Ana C.A.; Mara G. FreireMycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) is cytostatic drug acting as an inhibitor of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH, classified by ATC/DDD as an immunosuppressant (L04AA06) that is used in the treatment of cancer and also to prevent organ rejection after hepatic, renal, and cardiac transplants. However, as with other cytostatic drugs, MMF is highly toxic and thus its handling and disposal is a matter of great c...
House dust fungal communities’ characterization: a double take on the six by si...
Amaro, Raquel; Coelho, Sónia D.; Pastorinho, Ramiro; Taborda Barata, Luis; Patto, Maria Da Assunção Vaz; Monteiro, Marisa Rodrigues; Nepomuceno, MiguelFungi are a group of microbes that are found with particular incidence in the indoor environment. Their direct toxicity or capability of generating toxic compounds has been associated with a large number of adverse health effects, such as infectious diseases and allergies. Given that in modern society people spend a large part of their time indoors; fungal communities’ characterization of this environmental com...
House dust fungal communities’ characterization: a double take on the six by si...
Amaro, Raquel; Coelho, Sónia D.; Pastorinho, M. Ramiro; Taborda-Barata, Luís; Vaz-Patto, Maria A.; Monteiro, Marisa; Nepomuceno, Miguel C.S.Fungi are a group of microbes that are found with particular incidence in the indoor environment. Their direct toxicity or capability of generating toxic compounds has been associated with a large number of adverse health effects, such as infectious diseases and allergies. Given that in modern society people spend a large part of their time indoors; fungal communities’ characterization of this environmental com...
A história de um biomarcador de sucesso: o imposexo em gastrópodes como ferrame...
Barros, Ana R.; Mendes, Rúben T.S.; Santos, Gabriela C.; Sousa, Ana C.A.O imposexo consiste no desenvolvimento de caracteres sexuais masculinos em fêmeas de gastrópodes, como consequência da exposição a tributilestanho (TBT), um biocida utilizado em tintas antivegetativas, usadas na prevenção da bioincrustação. O imposexo é, por isso, utilizado como biomarcador da poluição por TBT e considerado o melhor exemplo de disrupção endócrina. Pretende-se, com este trabalho, descrever a met...