Cytotoxicity assays as tools to assess water quality in the Sinos River basin

<p>Cytotoxicity assays using cell cultures may be an alternative to assess biological toxicity of surface waters and may help to improve the control of water quality. This study compared two methods to prepare culture media for the exposure of Hep-2 cells to water samples collected from the Ro...

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Main Authors: L Trintinaglia, E Bianchi, LB Silva, CA Nascimento, FR Spilki, AL Ziulkoski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842015000300013&lng=en&tlng=en