A5038253965- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Heavy metals in environment
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Bird parasitology and diseases
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Marine animal studies overview
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity
- Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Trace Elements in Health
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- bioluminescence and chemiluminescence research
- Pharmacological Effects and Assays
Universidad de Murcia
2015-2024
University of Turku
2015-2021
Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria
2017
Centro Regional de Hemodonación
2016
University of Veterinary Medicine
2016
Biomonitoring using birds of prey as sentinel species has been mooted a way to evaluate the success European Union directives that are designed protect people and environment across Europe from industrial contaminants pesticides. No such pan-European evaluation currently exists. Coordination large scale monitoring would require harmonisation multiple countries types samples collected analysed-matrices vary in ease with which they can be information provide. We report first ever assessment...
The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas science is drastically slowed hindered by a lack standards networking programmes. Long-term studies individually marked animals are not an exception. These especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary ecological processes wild. Furthermore, their number global distribution provides unique opportunity to assess generality patterns address broad-scale issues (e.g. climate change). To solve enable new scale...
Mycotoxins, including zearalenone (ZEA), can occur worldwide in cereals. They enter the food chain and cause several health disorders. ZEA its derivatives (α-zearalenol, α-ZOL β-zearalenol, β-ZOL) have structural analogy to estrogen, thus they bind estrogen receptors (ERs). In order characterize estrogenic activity of ZEA, β-ZOL, proliferation ER-positive human breast cancer cells (MCF-7) exposed these mycotoxins was measured. After exposure at levels ranging from 6.25 25 µM, cell evaluated...
Birds of prey, owls and falcons are widely used as sentinel species in raptor biomonitoring programmes. A major current challenge is to facilitate large-scale by coordinating contaminant monitoring activities building capacity across countries. This requires sharing, dissemination adoption best practices addressed the Networking Programme Research Monitoring for with Raptors Europe (EURAPMON) now being advanced ongoing international COST Action European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility. The...
Information on the exposure of wild birds to pharmaceuticals from wastewater and urban refuse is scarce despite enormous amount drugs consumed discarded by human populations. We tested for presence a battery antibiotics, NSAIDs, analgesics in blood white stork (Ciconia ciconia) nestlings vicinity waste dumps contaminated rivers Madrid, central Spain. also carried out literature review occurrence concentration compounds other bird species further evaluate possible shared routes with storks....
Bird feces are commonly used as a proxy for measuring dietary metal exposure levels in wild populations. Our study aims to improve the reliability and repeatability of fecal measurements gives some recommendations sampling. First, we studied variation metallic element (arsenic, calcium, cadmium, cobalt, copper, nickel, lead) concentrations: temporal within an individual, among siblings brood among-brood/spatial variation. Second, explored caused by dual composition (urate vs. feces) bird...
Sensitivity of bird species to environmental metal pollution varies but there is currently no general framework predict species-specific sensitivity. Such information would be valuable from a conservation point-of-view. Calcium (Ca) has antagonistic effects on toxicity and studies with some common model show that low dietary circulating calcium levels indicate higher sensitivity harmful toxic metals. Here we measured fecal Ca five other macroelement (potassium K, magnesium Mg, sodium Na,...