[EN] Wounded leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana show transient immunity to Botrytis cinerea, the causal agent of grey mould. Using a fluorescent probe, histological staining and a luminol assay, we now show that reactive oxygen ...
[EN] This paper reports the first results on alkylphenol pollution in edible bivalves from the Spanish coast. Two sampling campaigns (July 2006 and July 2007) were carried out to determine the concentration of nonylphenol ...
Brun, Eva M.; Puchades, Rosa; Maquieira Catala, Ángel(Elsevier, 2011-05)
[EN] Doping control in sport is mandatory to detect and to control the use of prohibited substances. Due to the growing number of targets, the analysis of doping compounds and their metabolites is carried out using established ...
[EN] The essential oil composition of Cistus ladanifer grown in central Spain was analysed by gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, revealing it to be rich in oxygenated compounds, with trans-pinocarveol ...
[EN] Background: Platinum doublets are standard chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The aim of this study was to assess whether neutropenia is: (1) an indicator for treatment efficacy, or (2) ...
Sirera Pérez, Rafael; Bremnes, Roy M.; Cabrera, Andrea; Jantus Lewintre, Eloisa; Sanmartin, Elena; Blasco, Ana; del Pozo, Nieves; Rosell, Rafael; Guijarro, Ricardo; Galbis, Jose; Sanchez, Jose Javier; Camps, Carlos(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2011-02)
Background: Circulating DNA is observed at higher concentrations in patients with lung cancer than in controls. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of circulating DNA is a promising noninvasive tool. Our aim was to ...
[EN] A set of elastomeric scaffolds with a well defined porous structure was prepared with a template leaching procedure and coated with hyaluronic acid solutions. Depending on the coating process parameters the hyaluronic ...
[EN] A reliable multi-residue method for determining gaseous and particulate phase pesticides in atmospheric samples has been developed. This method, based on full scan gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), allowed ...
Soler Escoda, Juan Miguel; Santos-Juanes Jordá, Lucas; Miró Martínez, Pau; Vicente Candela, Rafael; Arques Sanz, Antonio; Amat Payá, Ana María(Elsevier, 2011-04-15)
The effect of organic species on a solar-driven photo-Fenton treatment of a mixture of pesticides (methyl-oxydemethon, methidathion, carbaryl and dimethoate) has been studied in this paper. Triethoxyisododecyl alcohol, ...
Jiménez Douglas, Emérita; Giménez García, Juan Bautista; Ruano García, María Victoria; FERRER, J.; Serralta Sevilla, Joaquín(Elsevier, 2011-07-29)
The effect of pH and nitrite concentration on the activity of the nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in an activated sludge reactor has been determined by means of laboratory batch experiments based on respirometric techniques. ...
Igual Muñoz, Anna Neus; Mischler, Stefano(SPRINGER, 2011)
[EN] The corrosion behaviour and the wear ranking of biomedical high carbon (HC) and low carbon (LC) CoCrMo alloys sliding against an alumina ball in four different simulated body fluids [NaCl and phosphate buffered solutions ...
Gamboa Martínez, Tatiana Carolina; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Gallego-Ferrer, Gloria(SAGE Publications (UK and US), 2011-09)
A hybrid scaffold was obtained by the deposition of a thin network of submicron fibrin fibrils on the microporous walls of a macroporous poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) three-dimensional structure. The fibrin coating is homogeneous ...
[EN] Fibrinogen (FG) adsorption on surfaces with controlled fraction of -OH groups was investigated with AFM and correlated to the initial interaction of primary endothelial cells (HUVEC). The -OH content was tailored ...
The majority of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients present with locally advanced (35%) or metastatic disease (40%); in this setting, it is of the utmost importance to balance efficacy with toxicity. However, with ...
Cháfer Pericás, María Consuelo; Maquieira Catala, Ángel; Puchades, Rosa(Elsevier, 2012-01)
[EN] In recent years, research has focused on the development of different types of inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) to be used as labels in immunoassays instead of fluorophores or organic particles. Basically, inorganic NPs ...
Salinas Soler, Yolanda; Climent Terol, Estela; Martínez Mañez, Ramón; Sancenón Galarza, Félix; Marcos Martínez, María Dolores; Soto Camino, Juan; Costero, Ana M.; Gil Grau, Salvador; Parra Álvarez, Margarita; Perez de Diego, Alberto(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011)
[EN] Although several strains of B. subtilis with antifungal activity have been isolated worldwide, to date there are no published reports
regarding the isolation of a native B. subtilis strain from strawberry plants in ...
Previous studies have shown that polyphosphate-accumulating organisms (PAOs) are able to behave as glycogen-accumulating organisms (GAOs) under different conditions. In this study we investigated the behavior of a culture ...
The paper expresses an attempt to tackle the problem due to the presence of micropollutants in wastewater which may be able to disrupt the endocrine system of some organisms. These kinds of compounds are ubiquitously present ...
Gotor Candel, Raul Jesús; Royo Calvo, Santiago; Costero Nieto, Ana María; Parra Álvarez, Margarita; Gil Grau, Salvador; Martínez Mañez, Ramón; Sancenón Galarza, Félix(Elsevier, 2012-10-14)
Two triaryl methane cations have been used as probes for colorimetric detection of nerve agent simulants. Buffered mixed aqueous solutions of 1 and 2 showed bathochromic shifts in the presence of DCNP (diethylcyanophosphonate) ...