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Journal of Xenobiotics, Volume 10, Issue 1

September 2020 - 3 articles

Cover Story: The weathering of plastic materials will produce staggering amounts of microplastics and nanoplastics, which will have far-reaching consequences to the biota. Nanoplastics can be absorbed by cells and potentially disrupt the internal organization. However, biomarkers aiming to highlight changes in the biophysical properties of intracellular networks are lacking in ecotoxicology. Changes in the properties of fractal space could be inferred by enzyme kinetics analysis, where kinetic enzyme constants become time-dependent in a fractal manner. This study examined the fractal space organization of lactate dehydrogenase both in vitro and in vivo in Hydra attenuata exposed to transparent polystyrene nanoplastics. The crowding effects of nanoplastics could be described by changes in the fractal properties in the internal spatial organization of complex intracellular networks. View this paper.

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Editorial

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A Research Journal Dedicated to the Effects of Xenobiotics in Organisms

François Gagné

J. Xenobiot.2020, 10(1), 11-13;https://doi.org/10.3390/jox10010003

18 September 2020

The Journal of Xenobiotics (JoX), which was initially launched in January 2011 under PAGEPress (Italy) and recently with MDPI in September 2020, is devoted to the publication of novel and scientifically sound studies in the field of xenobiotics [...]

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Crowding Effects of Polystyrene Nanoparticles on Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity in Hydra Attenuata

Joelle Auclair and
François Gagné

J. Xenobiot.2020, 10(1), 2-10;https://doi.org/10.3390/jox10010002

16 September 2020

Plastics pervade our environment and potentially release important quantities of plastic nanoparticles (NPs) from degradation in the environment. The purpose of this study was to examine the crowding effects of polystyrene NPs on lactate dehydrogenas...

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Editorial

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Publisher’s Note: Continued Publication of Journal of Xenobiotics by MDPI

Franck Vazquez

J. Xenobiot.2020, 10(1), 1;https://doi.org/10.3390/jox10010001

31 July 2020

Journal of Xenobiotics was launched in 2011 with the mission to publish novel research articles in the fields of the occurrence and biochemical effects of xenobiotics on all living organisms and it has been published over the past nine years by PAGEP...

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