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Volume 5, Numéro 5, Pages 107-110
2014-04-21

New Developments In The Bioluminescence Assay

Auteurs : Broers C.a.m . Lappalainen J .

Résumé

The industrial development, the use of pesticides in agriculture and the urbanization threaten the natural water resources. Legislation was introduced for monitoring and preventing the release of toxic substances to protect water quality. The traditional approach to toxicant monitoring in water involves standard analytic procedures. In general these techniques are selective and very sensitive. One is able to detect very low concentrations of a single chemical. However, these benefits have their drawback. Water may contain thousands of chemicals. Because of the selectivity only a limited number of compounds can be evaluated adequately. A broad based chemical analysis is expensive or sometimes impossible. Furthermore, most of the methods are laborious and time-consuming and cannot assess toxicity.

Mots clés

BIOLUMINESCENCE ASSAY