Intracellular signal transduction pathways as targets for neurotoxicants.

abstract：:The influence of the insertion of a liver into the perfusion circuit of a lung on the availability of benzo[a]pyrene and benzo[a]pyrene metabolites to the lung was examined. Perfused lungs from 5,6-benzoflavone pretreated rats release high quantities of free benzo[a]pyrene metabolites and conjugates into the perfusion...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Mollière M,Foth H,Kahl R,Kahl GF

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Young adult male and female Wistar rats were inhalationally exposed head-only for 1 or 4 h to different anticholinesterase aerosols. The compounds tested were dichlorvos, fenamiphos, methamidophos, parathion, a pyrimidine thiophosphate and the carbamate propoxur. These compounds are direct or indirect inhibitors of ch...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Pauluhn J,Machemer L,Kimmerle G

更新日期：1987-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Relative cytotoxicity and mechanism of action of thiophenes were investigated in suspensions of freshly isolated renal proximal tubular (PT) and distal tubular (DT) cells using 4-(2-thienyl)butyric acid (TByA) as a model compound. TByA produced significantly greater time- and concentration-dependent cytotoxicity, as a...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Lash LH,Tokarz JJ

更新日期：1995-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The developing nervous system is susceptible to lead (Pb) exposure but less is known about the effect of this toxic agent in adult rat brain. Since astrocytes serve as a cellular Pb deposition site, it is of importance to investigate the response of astroglial cells in the adult rat brain in a model of acute lead expo...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Struzyñska L,Bubko I,Walski M,Rafałowska U

更新日期：2001-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:p-Chloro-m-cresol (PCMC) and p-chloro-m-xylenol (PCMX) are known to cause allergic contact dermatitis. For risk assessment of skin sensitizers, information on dose-response profiles in the induction and elicitation phases and cross-reactivity with analogous chemicals are important. In the non-radioactive local lymph-n...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yamano T,Shimizu M,Noda T

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain derivatives of p-phenylenediamine have been shown to cause necrosis of cardiac and skeletal muscle in rats; in vitro, such compounds are known to autoxidize to the corresponding radical cations, with concomitant formation of oxygen free-radicals. In the present study, the autoxidation rates of p-phenylenediami...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Munday R,Manns E,Fowke EA,Hoggard GK

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate whether the mice treated with triptolide (TP) could disrupt the liver immune homeostasis, resulting in the inability of the liver to eliminate the harmful response induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In addition, we explored whether apoptosis and necroptosis played a cr...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yuan Z,Zhang H,Hasnat M,Ding J,Chen X,Liang P,Sun L,Zhang L,Jiang Z

更新日期：2019-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Role of chromium(III) in biological systems is controversial and no significant conclusions can be arrived with the available data. Chromium(VI) enters in to the cell readily and gets reduced to form stable chromium(III) complexes. Chromium(III) complexes react slowly and were considered non-toxic. Recent studies sugg...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Raja NS,Nair BU

更新日期：2008-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput in vitro toxicity screening provides an efficient way to identify potential biological targets for environmental and industrial chemicals while conserving limited testing resources. However, reliance on the nominal chemical concentrations in these in vitro assays as an indicator of bioactivity may misr...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Wetmore BA

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested, on the basis of work in cell-free systems, that sulfonamide hydroxy-lamines are metabolized to nitroso metabolites which may be the proximate toxins mediating sulfonamide hypersensitivity reactions. We performed time-course experiments investigating the toxicity of the hydroxylamine and nitroso ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Rieder MJ,Krause R,Bird IA

更新日期：1995-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, many consumer products contain nano-sized materials (NMs) to improve material properties, product quality and ease of use. NMs in food additives and in cosmetic articles (e.g., tooth paste) may be taken up by the oral route. As adverse effects of environmental nanoparticles, like ultrafine particles, have b...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Fröhlich E,Roblegg E

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive component of marijuana, is known to exert cytotoxicity in immune cells. In the present study, we examined the cytotoxicity of Δ⁸-THC in mouse macrophage J774-1 cells and a possible involvement of cannabinoid receptors and stress-responsive mitogen-activated protein kinases (M...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yamaori S,Ishii H,Chiba K,Yamamoto I,Watanabe K

更新日期：2013-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The question as to whether or not the hypotension observed as part of the effect of tricholorofluoromethane (FC11), dichlorofluoromethane (FC 12), dichlorotetrafluoroethane (FC 114) and methyl chloroform was due to a vasodepressor component of action, in addition to the previously documented depression in myocardial c...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Simaan JA,Aviado DM

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) (sum tetra- to octaBDEs) were determined in samples of foodstuffs widely consumed by the population of Catalonia, Northeast Spain. The following six tetra-through heptabrominated congeners were also individually analyzed: PBDEs 47, 99, 100, 153, 154 and...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Domingo JL,Martí-Cid R,Castell V,Llobet JM

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-threatening acute lung injury potentially occurs following high-level accidental exposures to phosgene gas. This situation was mirrored in rats exposed nose-only at 900-1000 mg phosgene/m(3)min. At this exposure level, previous studies on rats demonstrated sustained reflexively induced cardiopulmonary dysfunction...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Liu F,Pauluhn J,Trübel H,Wang C

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium valproate (VPA) is a potentially hepatotoxic antiepileptic drug. Risk of VPA-induced hepatotoxicity is increased in patients with mitochondrial diseases and especially in patients with POLG1 gene mutations. We used a HepG2 cell in vitro model to investigate the effect of VPA on mitochondrial activity. Cells wer...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Komulainen T,Lodge T,Hinttala R,Bolszak M,Pietilä M,Koivunen P,Hakkola J,Poulton J,Morten KJ,Uusimaa J

更新日期：2015-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of lung aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity has been studied in rats following their exposure to different regimes of cigarette smoke produced from tobacco and the tobacco substitute NSM. The rate of induction of AHH was maximal during the first 3 days of exposure to tobacco smoke. The frequency of e...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Down WH,Chasseaud LF,Sacharin RM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) in early spermatid stages of mice was studied after treatment with hydrazine or procarbazine (Natulan). The UDS response was assayed by measuring the levels of [3H]dThd in the nuclei of sperm cells derived from treated and untreated early spermatid stages. The radioacti...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sotomayor RE,Chauhan PS,Ehling UH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemicals can increase carcinogenic risk by either directly damaging DNA or increasing cell replication or they can do both. These effects have different implications for a biologically-based extrapolation from rodent bioassays to humans. 2-Acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) administered at low doses to mice for a lifetime h...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Cohen SM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies showed that certain cytotoxicity assays were not suitable for assessing nanoparticle (NP) toxicity. We evaluated a lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assay for assessing copper (Cu-40, 40nm), silver (Ag-35, 35nm; Ag-40, 40nm), and titanium dioxide (TiO(2)-25, 25nm) NPs by examining their potential to inactivate LDH a...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Han X,Gelein R,Corson N,Wade-Mercer P,Jiang J,Biswas P,Finkelstein JN,Elder A,Oberdörster G

更新日期：2011-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary function and inflammation in the lungs of rodents exposed by inhalation to carbon/graphite/epoxy advanced composite material (ACM) combustion products were compared to that of a rodent model of acute lung injury (ALI) produced by pneumotoxic paraquat dichloride. This investigation was undertaken to determine...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Whitehead GS,Grasman KA,Kimmel EC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistance type 1 P-glycoproteins (P-gp) and multidrug resistance associated proteins (MRP) were studied in differentiated primary human lung cells in culture, in comparison with permanent human lung cell lines and primary alveolar type II cells from rat lung. AII cells exhibited low basal levels of mdr1b mR...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Lehmann T,Köhler C,Weidauer E,Taege C,Foth H

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well-recognized that human environmental exposures are not to single chemicals. Rather, humans are exposed, either concurrently or sequentially, to multiple chemicals. Challenges that chemical mixtures pose for risk assessment and toxicology are presented. Challenge areas include increasing the peer-reviewed...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Simmons JE

更新日期：1995-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Some workers have suggested that 6 days xylitol administration to rats results in hepatic dysfunction. In our study xylitol was administered to rats by daily gastric intubation for a period of 14 days. Dose levels were 1.25, 2.5, 5 and 10 g/kg. During treatment (2, 5 and 14 days), animals were submitted to careful cli...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Truhaut,Coquet B,Fouillet X,Galland L,Guyot D,Rouaud JL,Long DW

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work was analyzed whether sulforaphane (SFN) may protect against cisplatin (CIS)-induced hepatic damage, oxidant stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. Four groups of male Wistar rats were studied: control, CIS, CIS+SFN and SFN. SFN was given i.p. (500 μg/kg/d × 3 days) before CIS administration (single ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Gaona-Gaona L,Molina-Jijón E,Tapia E,Zazueta C,Hernández-Pando R,Calderón-Oliver M,Zarco-Márquez G,Pinzón E,Pedraza-Chaverri J

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The reproductive toxicity of vanadium was studied in mice. Male Swiss mice were exposed to sodium metavanadate at doses of 0, 20, 40, 60, and 80 mg/kg per day given in the drinking water for 64 days. To evaluate the fertility of the vanadium-treated animals, males were mated with untreated females for 4 days. A signif...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Llobet JM,Colomina MT,Sirvent JJ,Domingo JL,Corbella J

更新日期：1993-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P-450 enzymes are responsible for the oxidation of xenobiotic chemicals including drugs, pesticides, and carcinogens. These enzymes include cytochrome P450, cytochrome b(5), arylhydrocarbon (benzo[a]pyrene) hydroxylase (AHH), NADPH-cytochrome C reductase and dimethylnitrosamine N-demethylase I (DMN-dI)....

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sheweita SA,El-Gabar MA,Bastawy M

更新日期：2001-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Antagonistic toxic effects of selenium and lead were studied in growing rats. Chronic lead intoxication was produced by cutaneous application of lead naphthenate solution (80-200 mg Pb/kg body weight) for a period of 8 weeks and chronic selenium intoxication was induced by giving 5 ppm, 10 ppm and 15 ppm selenium in d...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Rastogi SC,Clausen J,Srivastava KC

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of asthma is increasing worldwide. The increase has been found for both sexes, for all races and age groups. The factors responsible are unclear. The short period of increase makes it unlikely that a genetic change is responsible but rather suggests that either air pollutants or a behavioral change may ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Karol MH

更新日期：2002-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural antioxidants like catechin are now known to have a modulatory role on physiological functions and biotransformation reactions involved in the detoxification process, thereby affording protection from toxic metabolic actions of xenobiotics. Reactive oxygen intermediates have been demonstrated to play an etiolog...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Parvez S,Tabassum H,Rehman H,Banerjee BD,Athar M,Raisuddin S

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00