This work was supported by the Ohio Department of Higher Education Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative(No.60075961).Funding was solely for support of conducting the research.The authorswould like to thank Jessica Glowczewski fromCity of Akron and Amy Elliot fromCity of Alliance for providing water treatment details and permission for source water collection as well as Dr.Xiaozhen Mou and Madison Summers from Kent State University for assistance in conducting the toxin measurements.
Cyanobacteria can produce cyanotoxins such as microcystin-LR(MC),saxitoxin(STX),and anatoxin-a(ANTX-a)which are harmful to humans and other animals.Individual removal efficiencies of STX and ANTX-a by powdered activat...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41276150,51679169 and 40971249)
In this study,the distribution,transfer and fate of both polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs)and cyanotoxins via phytoplankton routes were systematically investigated in two Chinese lakes.Results indicated that PCB adsor...
supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT) under a Ph.D program;supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and MEXT
We investigated the accumulation and effects of cyanobacterial crude extract(CCE)containing microcystins(MCs) on the edible clam Corbicula leana P. Toxic effects were evaluated through the activity of antioxidant ...