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«Fifty shades of cyanobacterial green»

October 31, 2019 Off

Our PhD student Vittoria Mallia recently participated to the Horizon 2020 MSCA-ITN cluster event “Clean Water” organized by the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission in collaboration with…

By Ingunn Samdal
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A Practical ELISA for Azaspiracids in Shellfish and Algae

February 21, 2019 Off

Azaspiracids (AZAs) are a group of natural algal toxins that appear periodically in shellfish. These toxins can cause food poisoning in humans and the first known poisoning episode happened in…

By Ingunn Samdal
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GILLMODEL – New project on the development of an in vitro model to study environmental factors influencing gill epithelial function receives funding from the Research Council of Norway

January 2, 2019 Off

Gill disease in farmed Atlantic salmon is a significant problem. Poor gill health, often caused by infectious agents or bad water quality (or a combination of these) severely compromises animal…

By Silvio Uhlig
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Bird mortality event associated with microcystins at Poplar Island, Maryland, USA

November 14, 2018 Off

More than 750 dead and dying birds were observed at the Paul S. Sarbanes Ecosystem Restoration Project at Poplar Island, Maryland, USA (Chesapeake Bay) in summer 2012. Avian botulism was…

By Ingunn Samdal
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1st CiguaPIRE project meeting in Europe

November 12, 2018 Off

CiguaPIRE researchers from the US, Canada, Norway, UK and Hong Kong recently met at a vineyard outside Nantes in France, in order to summarize the state-of-the-art in research on Ciguatera…

By Silvio Uhlig
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MycoSafe-South kick-off

October 10, 2018 Off

This new initiative from the University of Ghent intends to harness the expertise and infrastructure available in Europe by strengthening the capacity of the Southern partners to tackle the mycotoxin…

By Silvio Uhlig
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Deoxynivalenol – nervous effects reconnaissance

August 1, 2018 Off

Data on neurotoxicological effects of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON), also called vomitoxin, are limited. Orally exposed laboratory (mice, rats) and domestic animals (pig, chicken) show behavioural changes such as feed…

By Ingunn Samdal
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Using boric acid gel for extraction of azaspiracids

June 26, 2018 Off

Azaspiracids (AZAs) are marine algal toxins that can cause food poisoning in humans. Azaspiracids belong to a family of more than 50 polyether toxins originating from marine dinoflagellates such as…

By Mike Kobernus
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Is P-glycoprotein involved in toxicity of deoxynivalenol?

June 26, 2018 Off

4-Deoxynivalenol (DON) is the most prevalent Fusarium mycotoxin, and it frequently occurs in grains such as wheat, barley, oats and rye all over the world. The ingestion of DON contaminated…

By Mike Kobernus
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