Design and Implementation of a Virtual Sensor Network for Smart Waste Water Monitoring.

Monitoring and analysis of open air basins is a critical task in waste water plant management. These tasks generally require sampling waters at several hard to access points, be it real time with multiparametric sensor probes, or retrieving water samples. Full automation of these processes would require deploying hundreds (if not thousands) of fixed sensors, unless the sensors can be translated.

Assessing the role of surface glycans of extracellular vesicles on cellular uptake.

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are important mediators of cell-cell communication in a broad variety of physiological contexts. However, there is ambiguity around the fundamental mechanisms by which these effects are transduced, particularly in relation to their uptake by recipient cells. Multiple modes of cellular entry have been suggested and we have further explored the role of glycans as potential determinants of uptake, using EVs from the murine hepatic cell lines AML12 and MLP29 as independent yet comparable models.

Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor in chick embryo myocardiocytes: relation with desmin expression during cardiac development.

The epidermal growth factor receptor is related with processes of cell replication and differentiation. We used the intermediate filament protein desmin as a marker to study the relation between muscle cell differentiation and modifications in the expression of this receptor during heart development in the chick embryo. Epidermal growth factor receptor was expressed as early as Hamburger and Hamilton's stage 17, when myocardiocytes are still poorly differentiated and desmin-negative.