Soil contamination by mercury, which is one of the most toxic heavy metals due to its bioaccumulative capacity, poses a risk environment as well health. The Almadén mining district in Ciudad Real, Spain heavily-polluted sites world, making soils unusable. Bioremediation, and more specifically phyto-rhizoremediation, based on synergistic interaction established between plant Plant Growth Promoti...

The critical role played by copepods in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry warrants an understanding of how these animals may respond to ocean acidification (OA). Whilst an appreciation of the potential direct effects of OA, due to elevated pCO2, on copepods is improving, little is known about the indirect impacts acting via bottom-up (food quality) effects. We assessed, for the first time, the ...

Height is not only important to physical health but also to social and psychological well-being. It is widely accepted that growth is assign of health. At all statureisan unattainable dream for many. At present, treatment with growth hormone alone or with growth hormonereleasing factor is the only treatment available. However, long-term treatment with growth hormone has numerous side effects, i...

Medicinal plants as essential additives in foods, beverages, and medications have been a part of human culture since the dawn time. plants' nutritional, pharmacological, biological, toxicological characteristics numerous applications industries. Nowadays, most people rely on complementary alternative therapies to treat various illnesses derived from natural sources. Melia azedarach is one (Meli...

Stress affects already young healthy people and many elderly or patients with psychiatric disorders receive benzodiazepines. A recent study has shown that the phyto-anxiolytic herbal extract combination Ze 185 (Relaxane®) significantly reduced the subjective stress reaction in healthy men in an acute stress setting. Further, in a retrospective data analysis from stationary patients in a psychia...

Much interest has recently been devoted to reconstructing the dynamic structure of ecological systems on the basis of time-series data. Using 10 years of monthly data on phyto- and zooplankton abundance from the Bay of Biscay (coastal to shelf-break sites), we demonstrate that the interaction between these two plankton components is approximately linear, whereas the effects of environmental fac...