The Medical Network for Nutrition against Obesity (Emno) breaks new ground in the treatment of obesity through a project within the legal framework of the so-called "Article 51". The medical and educational support it provides rests on four pillars: a continuum of care via a territorial network, multi-professional cooperation in e-healthcare, the partner-patient and the expert patient. Thanks to its Nuvee online platform for therapeutic patient education, Emno takes advantage of the current digital developments, in the spirit of rigorous medical as well as economic logic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, the toxicity of lake sediments contaminated with DDT and its metabolites DDD and DDE (collectively, DDX) was evaluated with widely used toxicity tests (i.e., Vibrio fischeri, Daphnia magna, Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, and Lumbriculus variegatus) and with the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, a model organism that is also suitable for studying pollutant-induced alterations at the molecular and cellular levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarthworms are useful indicators of soil quality and are widely used as model organisms in terrestrial ecotoxicology. The assessment of genotoxic effects caused by environmental pollutants is of great concern because of their relevance in carcinogenesis. In this work, the earthworm Eisenia andrei was exposed for 10 and 28 days to artificial standard soil contaminated with environmentally relevant concentrations of benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA battery of biomarkers has recently been developed in the earthworm Eisenia andrei. In this study, different biomarkers (i.e.
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