Regulation and quality control of herbal drugs in Korea.

abstract：:Subacute exposure of male rats to various concentrations (70-1000 ppm) of dichloromethane (DCM) produces a selective reduction of dopamine (DA) levels without a change of DA turnover in certain types of forebrain DA nerve terminal systems. In the low concentration (70 ppm) a selective reduction of DA turnover was obse...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Fuxe K,Andersson K,Hansson T,Agnati LF,Eneroth P,Gustafsson JA

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystins are cyclic heptapeptide toxins produced by certain strains of Microcystis aeruginosa and microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is the most toxic among the 70 variants isolated so far. These toxins have been implicated in both human and livestock mortality. In the present study we investigated the microcystin-LR induced ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Jayaraj R,Anand T,Rao PV

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichloroethylene (TCE) produced bronchiolar damage when administered to mice. Administration of 2000 mg/kg caused injury in Clara cells of the bronchiolar epithelium, which was observed at 24 h following TCE treatment; increase of the dosage to 2500 mg/kg induced additionally, alterations in alveolar Type II cells of...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Forkert PG,Sylvestre PL,Poland JS

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic ethanol intake affects various organ systems of the body. The present study evaluated modifications of fatty acid concentrations both in brain and striated skeletal muscles of rats genetically selected for voluntary high ethanol intake. Three groups of rats were tracked for 10 weeks of access to ethanol only a...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Berrettini M,Fedeli D,Falcioni G,Bevilacqua C,Massi M,Polidori C

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2A13 is mainly expressed in the respiratory system and has the ability to metabolize aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)). However, the role of CYP2A13-mediated AFB(1) metabolism and its consequences in human lung epithelial cell is not clear. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to investigate the si...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yang XJ,Lu HY,Li ZY,Bian Q,Qiu LL,Li Z,Liu Q,Li J,Wang X,Wang SL

更新日期：2012-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is a dangerous exogenous poison and an essential endogenous neurotransmitter. This gas when inhaled has an anaesthetic effect, which is poorly understood, but which may be fatal if compensatory mechanisms are exhausted, if cardiac oxygen (O(2)) needs exceed myocardial oxygenation and/or if apnoea ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Gorman D,Drewry A,Huang YL,Sames C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organochalcogens are important intermediates and useful reagents in organic synthesis, which can increase human exposure risk to these chemicals in the workplace. As well, there are a number of reported cases of acute toxicity following organochalcogen ingestion of vitamins and dietary supplements. Since, the erythroc...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Nogueira CW,Borges VC,Zeni G,Rocha JB

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal environmental pollutants increase susceptibility of affected individuals to bacterial and viral infections, but the mechanisms responsible for this effect are not known. We established cellular in vitro systems to identify molecular targets for the action of heavy metal ions. We used two model systems to d...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Shen X,Lee K,König R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of urban oxidant and acid air pollutants to induce heat shock proteins (HSPs) in the mammalian lung is not known. Such proteins are known to be correlated with environmental stress and pathophysiological conditions. In this study, stress-inducible HSP 70 was assessed by slot-blotting in rat lungs (N=10 per...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Wong CG,Bonakdar M,Mautz WJ,Kleinman MT

更新日期：1996-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies indicated that chloral hydrate can prolong the disappearance time of ethanol from blood in mice. This seems to result from inhibition of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase by chloral hydrate and trichloroethanol, its main metabolite. We examined the effect of both these compounds on the disappearance tim...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Faci A,Plaa GL,Sharkawi M

更新日期：1998-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of di-(2-ethylhexyl)adipate (DEHA) have been compared in female F344 rats and female B6C3F1 mice fed diets containing 0-4.0% DEHA and 0-2.5% DEHA, respectively, for periods of 1, 4 and 13 weeks. In both the rat and mouse treatment with DEHA at all time points produced a dose-dependent increase in relative ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Lake BG,Price RJ,Cunninghame ME,Walters DG

更新日期：1997-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The agricultural fungicide N-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)succinimide (NDPS) is an acute nephrotoxicant in rats. Our previous studies have strongly suggested that glucuronide conjugation of NDPS metabolites might be a bioactivation step mediating NDPS nephrotoxicity. In this study, effects of substrates and/or inhibitors of pr...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Hong SK,Anestis DK,Brown PI,Rankin GO

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromate (BrO3-) is a rodent carcinogen that is formed as a drinking water ozone disinfection by-product and also used in some food and consumer products. Therefore, bromate is subject to assessment for its risk to humans. Because the selection of an appropriate model for conducting quantitative cancer risk assessment ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Moore MM,Chen T

更新日期：2006-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminium (Al) oxyhydroxide (Alhydrogel®), the main adjuvant licensed for human and animal vaccines, consists of primary nanoparticles that spontaneously agglomerate. Concerns about its safety emerged following recognition of its unexpectedly long-lasting biopersistence within immune cells in some individuals, and rep...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Crépeaux G,Eidi H,David MO,Baba-Amer Y,Tzavara E,Giros B,Authier FJ,Exley C,Shaw CA,Cadusseau J,Gherardi RK

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports from this laboratory have established the propensity of chlordecone to potentiate the hepatotoxicity and lethality in male and female rats. The present study was designed to investigate the hepatotoxicity of CCl4 in chlordecone (CD) pretreated, ovariectomized rats. Ten days after bilateral ovariectomy...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Agarwal AK,Mehendale HM

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As vaccines are undoubtedly classified as pharmaceuticals, they have to be submitted to strict non-clinical safety evaluation. The context of their prophylactic use requires that every effort is made to ensure their safe use. Their safety evaluation is complex as they act through a multistage mechanism in which the va...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Verdier F

更新日期：2002-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal neurotoxicity is one of the major challenges in today's era due to the large scale and widespread mechanisation of the production. However, the causative factors responsible for neurotoxicity are neither known nor do we have the availability of therapeutic approaches to deal with it. One of the major causa...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Namgyal D,Ali S,Mehta R,Sarwat M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade, several assessments have estimated the carcinogenic risk of inhaled 1,3-butadiene (BD) to the general population as well as for occupational exposures. Although most of the risk assessments have been based on inhalation bioassays in mice, some of the assessments have included the 2-year inhalat...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Cagen SZ,MacDonald RL,Van Gelder G

更新日期：1996-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:N-(3,5-Dichlorophenyl)succinimide (NDPS) has proven to be an effective experimental agricultural fungicide. However, NDPS produces marked nephrotoxicity in Sprague-Dawley and Fischer 344 rats. The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of an intact, unsubstituted succinimide ring for acute NDPS-induced ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yang DJ,Richmond CD,Teets VJ,Brown PI,Rankin GO

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the ability of alachlor to cause DNA damage by measuring single-strand breaks (SSB) in DNA, after metabolic activation by freshly isolated rat hepatocytes. Incubation of different concentrations of alachlor with rat hepatocytes led to numerous metabolites. The majority, isolated and identified by GC-MS...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Bonfanti M,Taverna P,Chiappetta L,Villa P,D'Incalci M,Bagnati R,Fanelli R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Liver fibrosis has been reported to be inhibited in vivo by oleanolic and ursolic acids. However, the mechanisms of the action of those triterpenoids are poorly understood. In this study, we aimed to determine the antifibrotic potential of other triterpenes, betulin and betulinic acid, and to characteri...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Szuster-Ciesielska A,Plewka K,Daniluk J,Kandefer-Szerszeń M

更新日期：2011-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A CYP3A4 promoter-reporter gene construct has been used to assess the ability of 16 known (in vivo) and putative (in vitro) inducers to transactivate a CYP3A4 reporter gene in HepG2 cells. With the exception of pravastatin, the remaining 15 compounds transactivated the CYP3A4 reporter gene with differing inductive abi...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Gibson GG,el-Sankary W,Plant NJ

更新日期：2002-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, chimeric mice with humanized liver were established by transplanting human hepatocytes into an urokinase-type plasminogen activator(+/+)/severe combined immunodeficient transgenic mouse line. The replacement with human hepatocytes is more than 80-90% and is higher than any other chimeric mouse reported previ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Katoh M,Tateno C,Yoshizato K,Yokoi T

更新日期：2008-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:As a new method, support vector machine (SVM) were applied for prediction of toxicity of different data sets compared with other two common methods, multiple linear regression (MLR) and RBFNN. Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) models based on calculated molecular descriptors have been clearly establ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Zhao CY,Zhang HX,Zhang XY,Liu MC,Hu ZD,Fan BT

更新日期：2006-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the results of the multiple-dose guinea pig maximization test (GPMT) and the non-radioactive murine local lymph-node assay (LLNA) for various biocides. Thirteen out of 17 positive biocides in the GPMT gave positive results in the LLNA. In the GPMT, the minimum first induction doses ranged over four orders ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yamano T,Shimizu M,Noda T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LoVo adenocarcinoma cells are fairly sensitive to cytostatic drugs, e.g. doxorubicin, but can develop drug resistance by expression of a P-glycoprotein-mediated MDR1 phenotype. LoVo cells respond with apoptosis to nanomolar concentrations of okadaic acid and micromolar concentrations of cantharidic acid. Interestingly...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sieder S,Richter E,Becker K,Heins R,Steinfelder HJ

更新日期：1999-06-15 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 agricultural fungicide, N-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)succinimide (NDPS) induces acute polyuric renal failure which is attenuated by pretreatment with the glutathione depletors, diethyl maleate or buthionine sulfoximine (BSO). In the present study, the temporal aspects of BSO attenuation of NDPS nephrotoxicity were invest...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Rankin GO,Beers KW,Teets VJ,Nicoll DW,Anestis DK

更新日期：1997-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunohistochemical localization of G alpha q/G alpha 11 was studied in the olfactory neuroepithelium of the channel catfish. Antigenicity in the rosette was found at the apical surfaces of cells, within the apical neck regions of some cells, and within the area of the basal nerve tracts. Specific labeling was eli...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Andreini I,DellaCorte C,Johnson LC,Hughes S,Kalinoski DL

更新日期：1997-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantum dots (QDs) are potentially beneficial semi-conductor nanocrystals for use in diagnostics and therapeutics. The chemical composition of QDs however, has raised concerns as to their potential toxicity. Although a thorough examination using specific biochemical endpoints is necessary to assess QD toxicity, an und...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Clift MJ,Brandenberger C,Rothen-Rutishauser B,Brown DM,Stone V

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00