A5033757981- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Neurological diseases and metabolism
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Advanced oxidation water treatment
- Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
University of Macau
2022-2025
City University of Hong Kong
2020-2025
University of Hong Kong
2016-2023
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2020
Kowloon Hospital
2020
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2017
Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, measure APIs, ignored many countries world. This makes it difficult quantify scale problem from a global perspective. Furthermore, comparison existing data, generated for studies/regions/continents, is challenging due vast differences between methodologies employed....
Temperature and salinity can significantly modulate physicochemical properties toxicity of ZnO-NPs. Existing water quality criteria are inadequately protective towards marine organisms, especially in estuaries under global climate change.
Coated zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) are more commonly applied in commercial products but current risk assessments mostly focus on bare ZnO-NPs. To investigate the impacts of surface coatings, this study examined acute and chronic toxicities six chemicals, including ZnO-NPs, ZnO-NPs with three silane coatings different hydrophobicity, bulk particles (ZnO-BKs), ions (Zn-IONs), toward a marine copepod, Tigriopus japonicus. In tests, hydrophobic were less toxic than hydrophilic Analyses...
Isochrysis galbana, a crucial primary producer and food source in aquatic ecosystems, faces increasing challenges from climate change emerging contaminants like antibiotics. This study investigates the combined effects of sudden temperature increase (representing marine heatwaves) rapid salinity extreme precipitation events) on toxicity tetracycline (TC) oxytetracycline (OTC) to I. galbana. Short-term experiments reveal heightened antibiotic at 31 °C or salinities 18 PSU, surpassing algal...
In early August 2017, a serious palm stearin pollution accident occurred in the Pearl River Estuary, South China. While there were already several oil related spills around world, ecological effects and risks of such accidents to coastal marine environments remain largely unknown. this study, we found that all seawater sediment samples collected from six sites heavily contaminated by within 1 week accident, their levels significantly decreased preaccident after four months. Waterborne...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by dopaminergic neurodegeneration in nigrostriatal and cortical brain regions associated with pathogenic α-synuclein (αSyn) aggregate/oligomer accumulation. LRRK2 hyperactivity a disease-modifying therapeutic target PD. However, inhibition may be peripheral effects, albeit unclear clinical consequences. Here, we significantly reduced αSyn oligomer accumulation mouse striatum through long-term using GNE-7915 (specific brain-penetrant inhibitor)...
Being a class of vitamin A's main derivatives, retinoic acids (RAs) are important to animals' growth and development. Previous studies demonstrated that exposure excessive amounts RAs would lead malformation abnormal development in aquatic animals such as amphibians fishes. Currently, there only limited toxicity data available for freshwater species, while those marine species seriously lacking. This study aimed fill gap by conducting tests on six (i.e., one microalga, four invertebrates...
Micro- and nanoplastics are emerging pollutants that have attracted significant attention due to their potential concentrate transport coexisting organic in aquatic environments. Fluorinated liquid-crystal monomers (FLCMs) have...