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Environmental health perspectives for coal pollution: A view from the shipping ports to direct contact with coal dust or their extracts Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(University Cartagena, 2016)
In summary, these results allowed to show that the shipment of coal in Colombian ports has a negative impact on marine sediments, and that these effects are quantitatively measurable in cellular models, suggesting that ...
Natural bioactive compounds as inhibitors of cáncer targets Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(University cartagena, 2016)
In this thesis are presented the results of a multidisciplinary methodological strategy that included powerful computational tools such as molecular docking (AutoDock vina, GOLD and Surflex-Dock, SYBYL), pharmocophoremapping ...
Endocrine disruptors as ligands of breast cancer proteins Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2015)
Thesis was to evaluate the plausibility of EDCs to bind breast cancer proteins, through a three-steps approach: creation of a database of EDCs with three-dimensional structure available, an inverse virtual screening of ...
Effects of perchlorate at different trophic levels and characterization of reducing bacteria of this pollutant from hypersaline soils of the Colombian Caribbean. Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2019)
Perchlorate is an emerging contaminant that affects the functioning of the thyroid gland in humans and alters the normal development of living beings. This compound can be formed naturally and by different anthropogenic ...
Microplastics as pollutants of environmental concern: Unveiling the tip of iceberg Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2020)
Microplastics (MPs) are considered emerging pollutants. Widely distributed in the environment from the equator to the poles, their presence in the marine environment has been reported, ranging from the water column surface ...
Antibiotics and organophosphate pesticides at maximum residue level: A threat to the safety of animal proteins Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2020)
Meat is the most consumed animal source food on the planet nowadays. This is due to its nutritional value, which is represented in its high protein content. Therefore, any sort of physicochemical alteration that may be ...
Evaluación de la actividad toxicológica de la resina del algarrobo (Hymenaea courbaril L.) y del aceite de naranja (Citrus sinensis L.) sobre Drosophila melanogaster Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2021)
Los pesticidas químicos de síntesis tomaron un papel fundamental en la vida
cotidiana del ser humano; sin embargo, el uso masivo de este tipo de
compuestos ha contribuido al aumento de la contaminación de los cuerpos
de ...
Relación entre la exposición a elementos traza y marcadores hematológicos y moleculares de toxicidad en dos poblaciones adolescentes vulnerables del Caribe colombiano Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2021)
Uno de los principales problemas que afronta la humanidad es la
contaminación de los ecosistemas, por los impactos negativos que tiene
sobre la salud de las personas. A este problema se le suma las condiciones
de pobreza ...
Risk and genetic susceptibility to arsenic exposure from drinking groundwater in populations of the Colombian Caribbean Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2020)
Inorganic arsenic (InAs) is considered to be the principal form of
arsenic (As) in groundwater. The presence of arsenic in waters naturally
may occur and it is a serious global health issue, playing a very
important ...
Evaluation of the phytoremediation capacity and effects on the proteome in response to stress by Cd and Pb in species of Paspalum fasciculatum Willd (Ex Flüggé) (Poaceae) grown in a mining soil from northern Colombia Trabajo de grado - Doctorado
(Universidad de Cartagena, 2020)
Cadmium and lead are the most toxic heavy metals that exist in nature; soil contamination by these metals is a global concern, industrial development, overpopulation, mining, burning of fossil fuels, use of wastewater in ...