Pharmaceutical pollution in aquatic environments: a concise review of environmental impacts and bioremediation systems

M Ortúzar, M Esterhuizen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The presence of emerging contaminants in the environment, such as pharmaceuticals, is a
growing global concern. The excessive use of medication globally, together with the …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art of urine treatment technologies: A critical review.

TA Larsen, ME Riechmann, KM Udert - Water Research X, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last 15 years, urine treatment technologies have developed from lab studies of a
few pioneers to an interesting innovation, attracting attention from a growing number of …

Anticancer drugs: recent strategies to improve stability profile, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties

G Ioele, M Chieffallo, MA Occhiuzzi, M De Luca… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In past decades, anticancer research has led to remarkable results despite many of the
approved drugs still being characterized by high systemic toxicity mainly due to the lack of …

Anticancer drugs in wastewater and natural environments: A review on their occurrence, environmental persistence, treatment, and ecological risks

A Castellano-Hinojosa, MJ Gallardo-Altamirano… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The consumption of anticancer drugs (also known as chemotherapy drugs or antineoplastic
drugs) has augmented over the last decades due to increased cancer incidence. Although …

Removal of captopril pharmaceutical from synthetic pharmaceutical-industry wastewaters: Use of activated carbon derived from Butia catarinensis

MR Cunha, EC Lima, DR Lima, RS da Silva… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A high surface area activated carbon was produced from the seed of Butia catarinensis (Bc),
which was utilized for removing captopril from synthetic pharmaceutical industry …

[HTML][HTML] Anticancer drugs in the aquatic ecosystem: Environmental occurrence, ecotoxicological effect and risk assessment

D Li, H Chen, H Liu, D Schlenk, J Mu, S Lacorte… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anticancer drugs are a group of therapeutic agents used to enhance cell death in targeted
cell types of neoplasia. Because of frequent use and eventual discharge, they have been …

Recent advances in the theory and application of nanofiltration: a review

Y Du, BK Pramanik, Y Zhang, L Dumée… - Current Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Water is the material basis for living organisms and one of the primary resources to maintain
the sustainable development of the earth's ecological environment. As a water purification …

Threat and sustainable technological solution for antineoplastic drugs pollution: Review on a persisting global issue

A Yadav, ER Rene, MK Mandal, KK Dubey - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, the discharge of pharmaceuticals and their presence in the aquatic
environment have been continuously increasing and this has caused serious public health …

Predicted concentrations of anticancer drugs in the aquatic environment: what should we monitor and where should we treat?

MB Cristóvão, R Janssens, A Yadav, S Pandey… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anticancer drugs have been detected in the aquatic environment, they have a potent
mechanism of action and their consumption is expected to drastically increase in the future …

Disinfection of polymicrobial urines by electrochemical oxidation: Removal of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes

M Herraiz-Carboné, S Cotillas, E Lacasa… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, data obtained from the University Hospital Complex of Albacete (Spain) were
selected as a case study to carry out the disinfection experiments. To do this, different …