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ArticleWater and environment journal : the journal2015

The assessment of inflammatory activity and toxicity of treated sewage using RAW264.7 cells.

Vedastus W Makene, Edmund J Pool

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Article in Water and environment journal : the journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vedastus W MakeneDepartment of Medical Bioscience University of the Western Cape Bellville 7535 South Africa.
Edmund J PoolDepartment of Medical Bioscience University of the Western Cape Bellville 7535 South Africa.
University of the Western Cape · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Toxicity and inflammatory activity of wastewater samples were evaluated using RAW264.7 cells as a bioassay model. The RAW264.7 cell cultures were exposed to sterile filtered wastewater samples collected from a sewage treatment plant. Cell viability was evaluated using WST-1 and XTT assays. Inflammatory effects of samples were assessed by determination of nitric oxide (NO) and interleukin 6 (IL-6). The NO was estimated using the Griess reaction and IL-6 was measured by enzyme-linked immunoassay. All samples had no toxicity effects to RAW264.7 cells, however they significantly (

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effluentenvironmental assessmentpollutionsewagewastewater

Identifiers

PMID26900395
PMCPMC4744696
OpenAlexW1522912076

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