Begin 2007 werd door de Vlaamse Overheid beslist om te starten met de sanering van de verontreinigde waterbodem in de Dommel (provincie Limburg).
Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry
Analysis of pharmaceutical products in wastewater: development, validation and evaluation
The fundamental aim of this project is to develop and to validate a mathematical model to transform concentrations of the most prescribed and used pharmaceuticals and their metabolites of which the us
Defence mechanisms against heavy metal exposure in fish with different sensitivities to stress: interactions and dynamics.
The aim of this research is to assess whether gill cells of fish with a different sensitivity to copper exposure show intracellular differences in protein expression patterns of transporters, carriers and metal binding protein as well as in proteins and enzymes involved in the defence mechanisms against oxidative stress.
Identification and characterisation of urea transporters in the gills of the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
Elasmobranchs possess a unique system for osmoregulation. They are slightly hyperosmotic compared to their environment due to high levels of urea and trimethylamino oxide in their body. Therefore, they absorb water continuously by osmosis and do not have to drink.
Anoxia resistance in vertebrates: metabolomics of brains en hearts that never stop.
The crucian carp can survive for weeks in total anoxia, amongst others because of a unique anaerobic pathway producing ethanol. During this period brain and heart remain fully functional. This study compares the 'metabolomics' of the main organs of the anoxic crucian carp with those of the closely related, but not anoxia resistent, common carp.
