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Valderi L. Dressler is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil, focusing on research within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Plant Science, Analytical Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research emphasizes analytical chemistry methods development, with a particular interest in environmental contamination and the effects of heavy metals. Key topics covered in their publications include heavy metals in the environment, mercury impact and mitigation studies, aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, plant stress responses and tolerance, and plant micronutrient interactions and effects.

Dressler has contributed to various scientific journals, frequently publishing in venues such as Brazilian Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Química Nova.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Advances of nitrogen microwave plasma for optical emission spectrometry and applications in elemental analysis: a review, 2020, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
  • Toxicity of copper and zinc alone and in combination in Caenorhabditis elegans model of Huntington's disease and protective effects of rutin, 2023, NeuroToxicology
  • Plants' genetic variation approach applied to zinc contamination: secondary metabolites and enzymes of the antioxidant system in Pfaffia glomerata accessions, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Method validation for As speciation in rice using LC-ICP-MS and the inorganic arsenic limit for Brazilian rice, 2021, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
  • Habitat Use Patterns and Identification of Essential Habitat for an Endangered Coastal Shark With Vertebrae Microchemistry: The Case Study of Carcharhinus porosus, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent collaborators include Ana Barbosa Viana, Vinicius Machado Neves, Dirce Pozebon, Fernando Teixeira Nicoloso, and Júlia Gomes Farias.

Best Publications

  • Mercury toxicity induces oxidative stress in growing cucumber seedlings.

    Denise Cargnelutti;Luciane Almeri Tabaldi;Rosélia Maria Spanevello;Gladis de Oliveira Jucoski

  • Metals in the water, sediment, and tissues of two fish species from different trophic levels in a subtropical Brazilian river

    Paula Weber;Everton Rodolfo Behr;Camila De Lellis Knorr;Daniel Secretti Vendruscolo

  • Sulfur removal from hydrotreated petroleum fractions using ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization process

    Fábio A. Duarte;Paola de A. Mello;Cezar A. Bizzi;Matheus A.G. Nunes

  • Recent applications of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) for biological sample analysis: a follow-up review

    D. Pozebon;G. L. Scheffler;V. L. Dressler

  • Determination of metals and metalloids in light and heavy crude oil by ICP-MS after digestion by microwave-induced combustion

    Juliana S.F. Pereira;Diogo P. Moraes;Fabiane G. Antes;Liange O. Diehl

  • Review of the applications of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to the analysis of biological samples

    Dirce Pozebon;Guilherme L. Scheffler;Valderi L. Dressler;Matheus A. G. Nunes

  • N-acetylcysteine prevents memory deficits, the decrease in acetylcholinesterase activity and oxidative stress in rats exposed to cadmium.

    Jamile F. Gonçalves;Amanda M. Fiorenza;Roselia M. Spanevello;Cinthia M. Mazzanti

  • Determination of heavy metals by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry after on-line separation and preconcentration

    Valderi L Dressler;Dirce Pozebon;Adilson J Curtius

  • Cadmium and mineral nutrient accumulation in potato plantlets grown under cadmium stress in two different experimental culture conditions.

    Jamile Fabbrin Gonçalves;Fabiane Goldschmidt Antes;Joseila Maldaner;Luciane Belmonte Pereira

  • Elemental hair analysis: A review of procedures and applications

    D. Pozebon;G.L. Scheffler;V.L. Dressler

  • Iodine determination in food by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry after digestion by microwave-induced combustion.

    Márcia F. Mesko;Paola A. Mello;Cezar A. Bizzi;Valderi L. Dressler

  • Chlorine and sulfur determination in extra-heavy crude oil by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry after microwave-induced combustion

    Juliana S.F. Pereira;Paola A. Mello;Diogo P. Moraes;Fábio A. Duarte

  • Ultrasound-assisted oxidative process for sulfur removal from petroleum product feedstock.

    Paola de A. Mello;Fábio A. Duarte;Matheus A.G. Nunes;Mauricio S. Alencar

  • Quantitative images of metals in plant tissues measured by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    J.S. Becker;R.C. Dietrich;A. Matusch;D. Pozebon

  • Quercetin protects the impairment of memory and anxiogenic-like behavior in rats exposed to cadmium: Possible involvement of the acetylcholinesterase and Na+,K+-ATPase activities

    Fátima H. Abdalla;Roberta Schmatz;Andréia M. Cardoso;Fabiano B. Carvalho

  • Selenium and silicon reduce cadmium uptake and mitigate cadmium toxicity in Pfaffia glomerata (Spreng.) Pedersen plants by activation antioxidant enzyme system

    Aline Soares Pereira;Aline Soares Pereira;Athos Odin Severo Dorneles;Katieli Bernardy;Victória Martini Sasso

  • Digestion of biological materials using the microwave-assisted sample combustion technique

    Márcia Foster Mesko;Diogo Pompéu de Moraes;Juliano Smanioto Barin;Valderi Luiz Dressler

  • Determination of toxic elements in coal by ICP-MS after digestion using microwave-induced combustion.

    Fabiane G. Antes;Fábio A. Duarte;Márcia F. Mesko;Matheus A.G. Nunes

  • Determination of arsenic(III) and arsenic(V) by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry after complexation and sorption on a C-18 bonded silica column

    Dirce Pozebon;Valderi L. Dressler;Gomes Neto;Adilson J. Curtius

  • Feasibility of low frequency ultrasound for water removal from crude oil emulsions.

    Fabiane G. Antes;Liange O. Diehl;Juliana S.F. Pereira;Regina C.L. Guimarães

  • Determination of copper, cadmium, lead, bismuth and selenium(iv) in sea-water by electrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry after on-line separation

    Dirce Pozebon;Valderi L. Dressler;Adilson J. Curtius

Frequent Co-Authors

Erico M.M. Flores
Erico M.M. Flores Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Maria Rosa Chitolina Schetinger
Maria Rosa Chitolina Schetinger Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Fernando Teixeira Nicoloso
Fernando Teixeira Nicoloso Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Adilson J. Curtius
Adilson J. Curtius Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Vera Maria Morsch
Vera Maria Morsch Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Bernardo Baldisserotto
Bernardo Baldisserotto Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
J. Sabine Becker
J. Sabine Becker Forschungszentrum Jülich
João Rocha
João Rocha Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Susana Llesuy
Susana Llesuy University of Buenos Aires
Gustavo Brunetto
Gustavo Brunetto Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

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