A5045709085- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
- Galectins and Cancer Biology
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Neutrophil, Myeloperoxidase and Oxidative Mechanisms
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications
- Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
- Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Enzyme function and inhibition
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
University of Palermo
2016-2025
Terra
2006-2020
Welfare assessment currently is less well-characterized for aquatic animals and the classical methodologies used terrestrial are not adequate to improve our knowledge about fish well-being. Among different approaches, status of organism responses can be carried out using physiological biochemical tools. Here, we present state art regarding welfare, methodologies, experimental results with a particular focus on two important Mediterranean aquaculture species, Sparus aurata Dicentrarchus...
Abstract Anthropogenic climate change is warming sea water worldwide, pushing the limits of tolerance for marine organisms and driving a decline in biodiversity. The risk thermal anomalies has increased particularly Mediterranean region over last 30 yrs, where intense been identified as one main stressors coastal regions. To determine influence warmer conditions on immunity an endemic coral species, different immune activity parameters were compared response to elevated temperature (~ 28 °C)...
Sea anemones are valuable for therapeutic research as a diversified source of bioactive molecules, due to their diverse molecules linked predation and defence mechanisms involving toxins antimicrobial peptides. Acid extracts from Actinia equina tentacles body were examined antibacterial activity against Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria, fungi. The peptide fractions showed interesting minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values (up 0.125 µg/mL) the tested pathogens. Further...
Sabella spallanzanii is a Mediterranean tube-dwelling polychaete living in shallow water. Here we evaluate its ability to respond individual and combined treatments of methylmercury exposure Escherichia coli challenge – two typical stressors the eutrophic environment populated by animal. Methylmercury one most dangerous toxic pollutants marine environments, capable bioaccumulating being biomagnified within food web with consequences for organisms. Here, enzymatic immune responses have been...
Filter-feeding organisms accumulate xenobiotics and other substances in their tissues. They can be useful as sentinel biomonitoring of the marine compartment. Bivalve cellular immunity is ensured by phagocytosis cytotoxic reactions carried out hemocytes a network with humoral responses. These affected chemical contaminants water that immunosuppressors also at low concentration increasing sensibility to pathogens. This work an attempt individuate markers for pollution detection, investigating...
The rise of antibiotic-resistance as well the reduction investments by pharmaceutical companies in development new antibiotics have stimulated investigation for alternative strategies to conventional antibiotics. Many antimicrobial peptides show a high specificity prokaryotes and low toxicity eukaryotic cells and, due their mode action resistance is considered unlikely. We recently characterized an peptide that was called Paracentrin 1 from 5-kDa fraction coelomocyte cytosol Paracentrotus...