Metabolic depression is a highly conserved feature of insect diapause, and an increase in metabolism is a reliable indicator of diapause termination and the initiation of post-diapause development. The trajectory of metabolic rate following diapause termination can guide the identification of important physiological and developmental landmarks during this developmental transition, yet quantitat...

BACKGROUND Shewanella baltica KB30 was isolated from seawater collected in Kandalaksha Bay, White Sea (Russia). This strain is known for its ability to grow on a pool of different substrates, including carbohydrates, carboxylic and amino acids, and lipids. However, no data are available on its metabolic efficiency in relation to the use of different carbon sources typologies. This work represen...

To date, the management of high-strength wastewater represents a serious problem. This work aims to evaluate performance on chemical pollutants and sludge production one two full-scale thermophilic membrane bioreactors (ThMBRs) currently operational in Italy, based monitoring data last half years. Removal yields COD, N-NOx, non-ionic anionic surfactants (TAS MBAS), increased with input load up ...

Background: The present study aimed to assess the acute impact of erythromycin (ERY) as an inhibitor on peptone mixture utilization activated sludge (AS) consortium. Methods: For this purpose, inhibition oxygen consumption was used based ISO 8192:2007 procedure. In method, AS consortium (10-day age) extracted from lab-scale membrane bioreactor, then, percentage for total, heterotrophic, and nit...

Metabolic dysfunction and mitochondrial involvement are recognised as part of the pathology in Huntington’s Disease (HD). Post-mortem examinations of the striatum from end-stage HD patients have shown a decrease in the in vitro activity of complexes II, III and IV of the electron transport system (ETS). In different models of HD, evidence of enzyme defects have been reported in complex II and c...

Treatment experiments of a landfill leachate were performed by wet air oxidation (WAO) with the addition of H2O2 (as free radical promoter), and a Fenton-type (at pH 7) process, in order to compare COD (chemical oxygen demand) and AOX (adsorbable organic halogen) reduction as well as biodegradability enhancement measured by OUR respirometric parameter. The WAO reactions were performed in a batc...

Blood based bioenergetic profiling strategies are emerging as potential reporters of systemic mitochondrial function; however, the extent to which these measures reflect the bioenergetic capacity of other tissues is not known. The premise of this work is that highly metabolically active tissues, such as skeletal and cardiac muscle, are susceptible to differences in systemic bioenergetic capacit...