Federica Aureli

TL;DR: It is concluded that if AgNPs become systemically available, they behave differently from ionic silver, exerting distinct and size-dependent effects, strictly related to the nanoparticulate form.

TL;DR: In the spleen of treated animals TiO2 aggregates and increased white pulp were detected, even though Ti tissue levels remained low reflecting the low doses and the short exposure time, and prompted to comprehensively assess endocrine and reproductive effects in the safety evaluation of nanomaterials.

TL;DR: The large predominance of selenomethionine in local wheat shows that local wheat can be a promising raw material for naturally enriched products to be used to supplement human and animal diets in low selenium areas.

TL;DR: The main tools and techniques routinely used in nanotechnology for the nanoscale characterization of food matrices as well as for the analytical determination of nanomaterials in food samples are reviewed.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the feasibility of producing selenium-biofortified edible mushrooms using seenium-rich agricultural by-products as growth substrates and the proposed approach can be used to evaluate whether se lenium-contaminated plant waste materials harvested from high-selenium areas may be usedto produce selenum-biotic mushrooms based on the concentration, bioaccessibility and speciation of Selenium in the mushrooms.