Figure 4.

The reaction of the organism of amphipods E. verrucosus to the injection of 1 million microcapsules. The analyses included monitoring of mortality during six weeks (n = 10 per replicate; each point is a separate replicate); glutathione S-transferase activity (GST; n = 4–5) and lactate content (n = 5–7) for two weeks; and the content of heat shock proteins HSP70 (n = 4–6) for one week. No statistically significant differences from respective control groups (initial or parallel) were observed for the biochemical parameters.