Effects of biodegradable microplastics on the crustacean isopod Idotea balthica basteri Audouin, 1826.

Plastic pollution is a notable environmental issue, being plastic widespread and characterized by long lifetime. Serious environmental problems are caused by the improper management of plastic end-of-life. In fact, plastic litter is currently detected in any environment.

Molecular Approaches Detect Early Signals of Programmed Cell Death in Leach.

The protandric shrimp is the only known marine invertebrate whose sex determination is strongly influenced by the composition of its food. In , a sex reversal is triggered by the ingestion of diatoms of the genus associated with leaves of the seagrass . These diatoms contain compounds that promote programmed cell death (PCD) in and also in human cancer cells.

Ferroptosis precedes apoptosis to facilitate specific death signalling by fatty acids.

Cell death is physiologically induced by specific mediators. However, our power to trigger the process in selected cells is quite limited. The protandric shrimp offers a possible answer.

Bioactive Compounds from Marine Sponges and Algae: Effects on Cancer Cell Metabolome and Chemical Structures.

Metabolomics represent the set of small organic molecules generally called metabolites, which are located within cells, tissues or organisms. This new "omic" technology, together with other similar technologies (genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics) is becoming a widely used tool in cancer research, aiming at the understanding of global biology systems in their physiologic or altered conditions. Cancer is among the most alarming human diseases and it causes a considerable number of deaths each year.

[Formula: see text] Disrupted cognitive development following pediatric acquired demyelinating syndromes: a longitudinal study.

Long-term cognitive deficits have been observed in some children who experience an acquired demyelinating syndrome (ADS). We examined changes in cognitive functioning over the first two years following incident ADS andtested whether normalized brain and thalamic volume accounted for decline over time. Twenty-five youth (mean age 12.