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Detection of aluminum depositions in green and brown hydra

Although aluminum is one of the most abundant chemical elements in the Earth's crust, its effect on living beings was little known until recently. Since the effect of aluminum ions upon green and brown hydras has not been studied yet, with this technical note we showed how aluminum depositions in symbiotic and asymbiotic hydras could be detected, observed and analyzed. Differential eriochrome cyanine staining on hydras has been performed for the first time, using an appropriately modified technique for detecting the aluminum depositions in hydras. This hydra bioassay was shown to be a useful and exact tool for detection of expected results e.g. aluminum depositions in hydra cells.

aluminum depositions ; brown hydra ; green hydra ; symbiosis

Technical note