THE AGRICULTURAL IMPACT OF PESTICIDES ON PHYSALAEMUS CUVIERI TADPOLES (AMPHIBIA: ANURA) ASCERTAINED BY COMET ASSAY

The agricultural impact of pesticides on Physalaemus cuvieri tadpoles (Amphibia: Anura) ascertained by comet assay

ABSTRACT Amphibians inhabiting agricultural areas are constantly exposed to large amounts of chemicals, which reach the aquatic environment during the rainy season through runoff, drainage, and leaching.We performed a comet assay on the erythrocytes of tadpoles found in the surroundings of agricultural fields (soybean and corn crops), where there i

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Calibrated meta-analysis to estimate the efficacy of mental health treatments in target populations: an application to paliperidone trials for treatment of schizophrenia

Abstract Backgrounds Meta-analyses can be a powerful tool but need to calibrate potential unrepresentativeness of the included trials to a target population.Estimating target population average treatment effects (TATE) in meta-analyses is important to understand how treatments perform in well-defined target populations.This study estimated TATE of

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