Coco peat - An alternative artificial soil ingredient for the earthworm toxicity testing

Coco peat - An alternative artificial soil ingredient for the evaluation of Earthworm Toxicity testing

1 Department of Ecotoxicology, International Institute of Biotechnology and Toxicology (IIBAT) Padappai 601 301, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. 2 Department of Statistics, International Institute of Biotechnology and Toxicology (IIBAT) Padappai 601 301, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India. 3 Director of the Institution International Institute of Biotechnology and Toxicology (IIB...

Toxicity of AMPA to the earthworm Eisenia andrei Bouché, 1972 in tropical artificial soil

Aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) - one of glyphosate's main metabolites - has been classified as persistent in soils, raising concern regarding the widespread use of glyphosate in agriculture and forestry. Glyphosate may have negative or neutral effects on soil biota, but no information is available on the toxicity of AMPA to soil invertebrates. Therefore our aim was to study the effect of AMP...

Alternative models for toxicity testing of xenobiotics.

The alternatives to whole-animal testing include endpoint assays, cell and tissue cultures, use of tissue slices, toxicokinetic modelling, and structure-activity relationships and databases. The use of in vitro systems (subcellular fractions, cell lines, primary cell cultures, tissue slices, organ cultures, etc.) as research tools in toxicology is widespread. In the past few years, the apoptosi...

An Artificial Neural Network Model for Prediction of the Operational Parameters of Centrifugal Compressors: An Alternative Comparison Method for Regression

Nowadays, centrifugal compressors are commonly used in the oil and gas industry, particularly in the energy transmission facilities just like a gas pipeline stations. Therefore, these machines with different operational circumstances and thermodynamic characteristics are to be exploited according to the operational necessities. Generally, the most important operational parameters of a gas pipel...

Earthworm-An alternative approach to biomedicine