The analysis of (bio)available copper in complex environmental settings, including biological test media, is a challenging task. In this study, we demonstrated the potential of a recombinant Pseudomonas fluorescens-based biosensor for bioavailability analysis of CuSO4 and CuO nanoparticles (nano-CuO) in seventeen different ecotoxicological and microbiologial test media. In parallel, free Cu in ...

Cells of Ralstonia solanacearum were exposed to Cu in distilled water, and the resulting Cu-stressed non-culturable cells were inoculated to natural (non-pasteurized) and pasteurized soils in order to examine their culturability and recovery. Exposing the cells to 20 μM CuSO4 produced transitory non-culturable cells, which exhibited a remarkable recovery in culturability after incubation in the...

Performance and Cu status were measured in growing and finishing steers supplemented with different copper (Cu) concentrations and sources. Sixty Angus (n = 36) and Angus x Hereford (n = 24) steers were stratified by weight and initial liver Cu concentration within a breed and randomly assigned to treatments. Treatments consisted of 1) control (no supplemental Cu); 2) 20 mg Cu/kg DM from Cu sul...

This experiment was carried out to explore the efficiency of an individual or combined doses vitamin C (Vit. C) and E E) in alleviating biochemical, genotoxicity, pathological changes liver induced by copper sulfate (CuSO4) toxicity broiler chickens. Two hundred fifty-one-day-old chicks were haphazardly allotted into five groups (five replicates/group, ten chicks/replicate). The birds fed exper...

Artykuł przedstawia oryginalne badania związane z odzyskiwaniem miedzi ze ścieków przemysłowych. Celem badań eksperymentalnych jest odzyskiwanie sproszkowanej metalicznej o niskiej zawartości jonów metodą cementacji za pomocą złomowej elektrody żelaznej oraz do obliczenie wydajności miedzi, na którą wpływają następujące parametry: początkowe stężenia wartości pH i czas kontaktu. Eksperymenty ob...

in an attempt to determine the chemical losses of three common molluscicides, i.e. cuso4, napcp and bayer –73, in stagnant water, a solution of each of this molluscicide was applied to one or more b.truncatus habitats and outdoor aquariums. the concentration of each molluscicide in these water bodies was determined immediately after application and at fixed time intervals thereafter. the concen...

GOAL, SCOPE AND BACKGROUND Elevated concentrations of copper in the environment result in accumulation of the metal in plants and cause an increase in reactive oxidative species (ROS). The first response to elevated amounts of ROS is increased levels of enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants that reduce oxidative stress. The aim of our study was to evaluate the early stages of antioxidative r...

γ-Proteobacterium JB, an alkali-tolerant soil isolate, produced laccase (8X10 nkat/L) in M162 medium. The optimization of process conditions (pH, incubation time, agitation, and CuSO4 concentration) for laccase production during submerged fermentation was carried out using response surface methodology (RSM) based on a central composite design (CCD). Maximum laccase production achieved was 7.4 X...

nano-cufe2o4 catalysts with different cu/fe molar ratios (cunfemo(n+1.5m)) were prepared by hydrothermal method. the thermal decomposition performance of cunfemo(n+1.5m) on cuso4 were determined with tg-dsc method to evaluate its catalytic activity and the roasted product was characterized by xrd. the results showed that cunfemo(n+1.5m) had superior catalytic properties and efficiency to cuso4 ...