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Ecotoxicol Environ Saf ; 124: 309-314, 2016 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26584461

RESUMO

The paper reports the results of an interlaboratory comparison involving 11 laboratories, with the objectives of apply and validate a new standardized ecotoxicological method on marine crustacean Tigriopus fulvus. Copper was chosen as reference toxicant as indicated in the official method. The results of two independent tests performed by all the participants, demonstrated that the new method is simple, fast and easy to learn. This is confirmed even by the values of z-score index calculated for each laboratory and the relative coefficient of variation (CV) which are 6.32% after 24h, 6.56 after 48h and 35.3% after 96h, mentioned in the ISO standards for the precision of interlaboratory assays. Therefore its use could be recommended in environmental studies and monitoring.


Assuntos
Copépodes , Testes de Toxicidade Aguda/normas , Animais , Copépodes/efeitos dos fármacos , Cobre/toxicidade , Ecotoxicologia/normas , Feminino , Laboratórios/estatística & dados numéricos , Larva , Testes de Toxicidade Aguda/estatística & dados numéricos
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Mar Drugs ; 13(10): 6440-52, 2015 Oct 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26492256

RESUMO

External otitis is a diffuse inflammation around the external auditory canal and auricle, which is often occurred by microbial infection. This disease is generally treated using antibiotics, but the frequent occurrence of antibiotic resistance requires the development of new antibiotic agents. In this context, unexplored bioactive natural candidates could be a chance for the production of targeted drugs provided with antimicrobial activity. In this paper, microbial pathogens were isolated from patients with external otitis using ear swabs for over one year, and the antimicrobial activity of the two methanol extracts from selected marine (Dunaliella salina) and freshwater (Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata) microalgae was tested on the isolated pathogens. Totally, 114 bacterial and 11 fungal strains were isolated, of which Staphylococcus spp. (28.8%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) (24.8%) were the major pathogens. Only three Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) strains and 11 coagulase-negative Staphylococci showed resistance to methicillin. The two algal extracts showed interesting antimicrobial properties, which mostly inhibited the growth of isolated S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella spp. with MICs range of 1.4 × 108 to 2.2 × 10(10) cells/mL. These results suggest that the two algae have potential as resources for the development of antimicrobial agents.


Assuntos
Anti-Infecciosos/farmacologia , Microalgas/química , Otite Externa/tratamento farmacológico , Extratos Vegetais/farmacologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Anti-Infecciosos/isolamento & purificação , Bactérias/efeitos dos fármacos , Bactérias/isolamento & purificação , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana , Feminino , Fungos/efeitos dos fármacos , Fungos/isolamento & purificação , Humanos , Masculino , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Otite Externa/microbiologia , Extratos Vegetais/isolamento & purificação , Adulto Jovem
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Ecotoxicol Environ Saf ; 118: 167-176, 2015 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25938697

RESUMO

Surfactants are synthetic chemicals utilized as detergents and cleaning products or as dispersants and emulsifiers to face water pollution. In spite of this, due to their wide diffusion, surfactants can induce water and soil pollution, notably in developed countries, and can be toxic to organisms. Taking into account that the assessment of new compounds is mandatory in the European Union, in this research the ecotoxicity of fire-fighting micelle encapsulator F-500, newly utilized as dispersant in seawaters polluted with oil dumping, was evaluated. The assessment was carried out on a battery of test-organisms (freshwater algae, crustaceans, and larval fish; seawater algae, crustaceans, and bivalves; soil earthworms, and seeds) as well as on cultured cells (L-929 mouse fibroblasts), which were exposed to F-500 concentrations. According to the toxicity thresholds provided by GESAMP, F-500 resulted to be slightly or moderately toxic to all test-organisms, excluding the freshwater alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata that suffered highly toxic effects with IC50 values ranging from 0.21 to 0.49mg/L. The IC50 for mouse fibroblasts was 5.41µg/L after 24h treatment.


Assuntos
Tensoativos/toxicidade , Poluentes Químicos da Água/toxicidade , Animais , Clorófitas/efeitos dos fármacos , Peixes/metabolismo , Invertebrados/efeitos dos fármacos , Magnoliopsida/efeitos dos fármacos , Micelas
4.
Cent Nerv Syst Agents Med Chem ; 15(2): 74-80, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25751086

RESUMO

Cnidarians are numbered among the most venomous organisms. Their venoms are contained in intracellular capsules, nematocysts, which inject the content into preys/attackers through an eversion system resembling a syringe needle. Several cnidarian venoms have activity against the nervous system, being neurotoxic, or affect other systems whose functioning is under nerve control. Besides direct damage to nerve cells, the activity on ionic conductance, blockade of neuromuscular junctions, and influence on action potentials and on voltage-gated channels have been described. Therefore, cnidarians can be a useful source of nervous system-targeted compounds which could have, in perspective, a role in the therapy of some nervous system diseases. Following this idea, this article aims to review the existing data about the neuroactive properties of cnidarian venoms and their possible usefulness in tackling some neurological diseases as well as neurodegenerative age-related diseases whose incidence is expected to raise in the next decades owing to the increase of life expectancy.


Assuntos
Analgésicos/isolamento & purificação , Venenos de Cnidários/farmacologia , Doenças do Sistema Nervoso/tratamento farmacológico , Fármacos Neuroprotetores/isolamento & purificação , Neurotoxinas/isolamento & purificação , Analgésicos/uso terapêutico , Animais , Anti-Inflamatórios/isolamento & purificação , Anti-Inflamatórios/uso terapêutico , Cnidários/química , Venenos de Cnidários/isolamento & purificação , Venenos de Cnidários/toxicidade , Avaliação Pré-Clínica de Medicamentos , Humanos , Doenças Neurodegenerativas/tratamento farmacológico , Junção Neuromuscular/efeitos dos fármacos , Fármacos Neuroprotetores/uso terapêutico , Neurotoxinas/toxicidade , Bloqueadores dos Canais de Potássio/isolamento & purificação , Bloqueadores dos Canais de Potássio/farmacologia , Canais de Potássio de Abertura Dependente da Tensão da Membrana/antagonistas & inibidores , Bloqueadores do Canal de Sódio Disparado por Voltagem/isolamento & purificação , Bloqueadores do Canal de Sódio Disparado por Voltagem/farmacologia
5.
Environ Toxicol Chem ; 31(9): 2023-8, 2012 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22706890

RESUMO

The availability of standardized protocols for both organism culture and bioassay with ecologically relevant species is of great concern in ecotoxicology. Acartia tonsa represents an important, often dominant, member of zooplankton communities and meets all the practical criteria suggested for model species. New standardized procedures for laboratory culturing of the copepod A. tonsa and standardized methods for acute (24- and 48-h) and semichronic (7-d, static-renewal) toxicity tests with the nauplius stage are described. In both cases, eggs are the starting stage, and nauplius immobilization is the endpoint. The methods were the object of an intercomparison test involving nine laboratories, and nickel was the reference toxicant. Relative reproducibility was 24, 25, and 34% for 24-h, 48-h, and 7-d tests, respectively.


Assuntos
Copépodes/efeitos dos fármacos , Animais , Copépodes/fisiologia , Estágios do Ciclo de Vida/efeitos dos fármacos , Níquel/toxicidade , Padrões de Referência , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Reprodução/efeitos dos fármacos , Testes de Toxicidade Aguda/normas , Testes de Toxicidade Subcrônica/normas , Zooplâncton
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Ecotoxicol Environ Saf ; 79: 134-138, 2012 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22236954

RESUMO

A series of 10 intra-laboratory bioassays and an inter-laboratory assay involving nine laboratories, were performed to validate the use of Amphibalanus amphitrite larvae as test organisms for ecotoxicological studies. The standardization protocol utilized Cadmium Nitrate as a reference toxicant and larval immobilization (after 24 and 48 h) as the end-point. The statistical data analysis showed high homogeneity in intra-laboratory EC(50) values among bioassay repetitions (coefficient of variation (CV)=15.8% after 24 h and 16.9% after 48 h); also CV values obtained in inter laboratory comparison exercise were not higher than the 50%, variation coefficient mentioned in the ISO standards for the precision of inter-laboratory assays. The results demonstrated that the protocol implemented for the balanus larval bioassay comply with the international standards both for intra- and inter-laboratory precision.


Assuntos
Monitoramento Ambiental/métodos , Testes de Toxicidade/métodos , Poluentes Químicos da Água/toxicidade , Animais , Bioensaio , Crustáceos , Ecotoxicologia , Monitoramento Ambiental/normas , Laboratórios , Larva/efeitos dos fármacos , Padrões de Referência , Thoracica , Testes de Toxicidade/normas
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Mar Drugs ; 6(3): 496-513, 2008.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19005582

RESUMO

The toxicity of Cnidaria is a subject of concern due to its influence on humans. In particular, jellyfish blooms can highly affect human economical activities, such as bathing, fishery, tourism, etc., as well as the public health. Stinging structures of Cnidaria (nematocysts) produce remarkable effects on human skin, such as erythema, swelling, burning and vesicles, and at times further severe dermonecrotic, cardio- and neurotoxic effects, which are particularly dangerous in sensitive subjects. In several zones the toxicity of jellyfish is a very important health problem, thus it has stimulated the research on these organisms; to date toxicological research on Cnidarian venoms in the Mediterranean region is not well developed due to the weak poisonousness of venoms of jellyfish and anemones living in this area. In spite of this, during last decades several problems were also caused in the Mediterranean by stinging consequent to Cnidarian blooms mainly caused by Pelagia noctiluca (Forsskål, 1775) which is known to be the most venomous Mediterranean jellyfish. This paper reviews the knowledge on this jellyfish species, particularly considering its occurrence and toxicity.


Assuntos
Mordeduras e Picadas/epidemiologia , Cnidários/fisiologia , Venenos de Cnidários/toxicidade , Animais , Mordeduras e Picadas/terapia , Humanos
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