Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Private grant(s) and/or Sponsorship. Main source(s): BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG Background Published data on commercially available implantable cardiac monitors (ICMs) and the influence body mass index (BMI) devices sensing performance are scarce. The BIOMONITOR III is an ICM equipped with a large vector allowing to detect high quality s...

The monitoring of biological indicators is required to assess the impacts environmental policies, compare ecosystems and guide management conservation actions. However, growing availability ecological data has not been accompanied by concomitant processing tools able facilitate handling analysis. Multiple common challenges limit usefulness biomonitoring information across groups. Biomonitoring ...

The concentrations of cadmium, copper, nickel, zinc and lead were investigated in various components of smooth-leaved elm (Ulmus carpinifolia) tree in three sites (polluted, moderately polluted, and control) in Abadeh, Iran, in July 2015. The experiment was conducted using factorial experiment in a Completely Randomized Design with three replications. The concentration of heavy metals was measu...

GOAL, SCOPE AND BACKGROUND Lumbriculus variegatus Miller (Oligochaeta), a common freshwater sediment-dweller, has frequently been used in toxicokinetic studies, although has been less used in ecotoxicity tests. METHODS For the first time the Multispecies Freshwater Biomonitor (MFB) was applied in a short-term whole-sediment toxicity test. The MFB automatically and quantitatively recorded the ...

Intertidal gastropods, Faunus ater (F. ater), were collected from four sampling sites in Peninsular Malaysia. It was found that the concentrations of Zinc (Zn) (mg/kg dry weight) ranged 347.23 to 356.21 for Digestive Caecum (DC), 95.00 100.91 foot, 102.73 109.00 muscle, 42.73 177.72 operculum, 87.57 161.76 remainder, and 24.42 53.96 shell F. ater. Current results indicate intertidal waters Pant...

Six healthy, scientifically informed human volunteers were given 14C-labeled polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules by mouth. Fecal 14C recovery was inversely related to mean gut transit time (r = -0.66), and the extent of cross-linking between the membrane and core PEI was inversely related to total fecal output (r = -0.81). Cross-linking of PEI microcapsules may be a biomonitor of endogenous c...