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Mar Pollut Bull 2021 Jul 20;171:112733. Epub 2021 Jul 20.

Department of Aquatic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Turkey. Electronic address:

The presence of microplastics (MPs) was determined in Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819) and grooved carpet shell (Ruditapes decussatus Linnaeus, 1758) together with water samples from in İzmir Bay (Aegean Sea, Western Turkey). A total of 895 MPs from Karşıyaka (Station 1), and 787 MPs from Gülbahçe (Station 2) were detected in 60 mussel samples, giving a total content of 1682 MPs. In water samples, a total of 545 MPs were detected in samples from Station 1 and 1287 MPs in samples from Station 2 (1832 MPs total). Read More

Food Chem Toxicol 2021 Jul 19:112431. Epub 2021 Jul 19.

CIIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Av. General Norton de Matos S/N, 4450-208, Matosinhos, Portugal. Electronic address:

This study aimed to devise innovative, tailor-made, appealing, tasty and semi-industrialized dishes, using sustainable and under-utilized seafood species (bib, common dab, common carp, blue mussel and blue whiting), that can meet the specific nutritional and functional needs of children (8-10-years), pregnant women (20-40-years) and seniors (≥60-years). Hence, contests were organised among cooking schools from 6 European countries and the best recipes/dishes were reformulated, semi-industrially produced and chemically and microbiologically evaluated. The dishes intended for: (i) children and pregnant women had EPA + DHA and I levels that reached the target quantities, supporting the claim as "high in I"; and (ii) seniors were "high in protein" (24. Read More

Environ Geochem Health 2021 Jul 22. Epub 2021 Jul 22.

State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, 223# Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, China.

In recent decades, antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have been regarded as emerging pollutants. In Taihu Lake, as a typical representative of freshwater system in China, the ARGs occurrence and abundance was of great importance for ecological risk control and public health protection. In this research, high-throughput sequencing and metagenomics technique were used to investigate the seasonal ARGs profile in overlying water and sediment at typical area of Taihu Lake. Read More

Psychosom Med 2021 Jul 21. Epub 2021 Jul 21.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta GA Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Atlanta VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta GA Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling condition affecting a large segment of the population, however current treatment options have limitations. New interventions that target the neurobiological alterations underlying symptoms of PTSD could be highly beneficial. Transcutaneous cervical (neck) vagal nerve stimulation (tcVNS) has the potential to represent such an intervention. Read More

Environ Sci Technol 2021 Jul 22. Epub 2021 Jul 22.

Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7400, United States.

Microbial pollution in rivers poses known ecological and health risks, yet causal and mechanistic linkages to sources remain difficult to establish. Host-associated microbial source tracking (MST) help to assess the microbial risks by linking hosts to contamination but do not identify the source locations. Land-use regression (LUR) models have been used to screen the source locations using spatial predictors but could be improved by characterizing transport (i. Read More