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Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Increase Sensitivity in the Next Generation of the Water Flea Daphnia magna

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, November 2012
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Title
Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Increase Sensitivity in the Next Generation of the Water Flea Daphnia magna
Published in
PLOS ONE, November 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0048956
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Authors

Mirco Bundschuh, Frank Seitz, Ricki R. Rosenfeldt, Ralf Schulz

Abstract

The nanoparticle industry is expected to become a trillion dollar business in the near future. Therefore, the unintentional introduction of nanoparticles into the environment is increasingly likely. However, currently applied risk-assessment practices require further adaptation to accommodate the intrinsic nature of engineered nanoparticles. Combining a chronic flow-through exposure system with subsequent acute toxicity tests for the standard test organism Daphnia magna, we found that juvenile offspring of adults that were previously exposed to titanium dioxide nanoparticles exhibit a significantly increased sensitivity to titanium dioxide nanoparticles compared with the offspring of unexposed adults, as displayed by lower 96 h-EC(50) values. This observation is particularly remarkable because adults exhibited no differences among treatments in terms of typically assessed endpoints, such as sensitivity, number of offspring, or energy reserves. Hence, the present study suggests that ecotoxicological research requires further development to include the assessment of the environmental risks of nanoparticles for the next and hence not directly exposed generation, which is currently not included in standard test protocols.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Mexico 1 2%
Portugal 1 2%
Germany 1 2%
France 1 2%
Unknown 55 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 22%
Student > Master 10 17%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 7 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 34%
Environmental Science 12 20%
Engineering 5 8%
Chemistry 3 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 8 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 November 2012.
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#1,179,414
of 22,685,926 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#15,727
of 193,650 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,613
of 183,512 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#301
of 4,904 outputs
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