Fatty acid alterations in liver and milk of cadmium exposed rats and in brain of their suckling offspring.

abstract：:Melamine is commonly used in a variety of consumer products such as furniture, dining ware, and food utensils. The chemical infamously gained worldwide attention by its illegal addition to a variety of foodstuffs in order to falsify protein content, which led to serious, sometimes fatal, health impacts in children and...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Bolden AL,Rochester JR,Kwiatkowski CF

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicity of an aqueous extract prepared from Echinodorus macrophyllus dried leaves, a plant used in folk medicine to treat inflammation and kidney malfunctions, was estimated by different bioassays. Mutagenicity of the aqueous extract was evaluated in the Salmonella/microsome assay (TA97a, TA98, TA100 and TA102 strain...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： da Costa Lopes L,Albano F,Augusto Travassos Laranja G,Marques Alves L,Fernando Martins e Silva L,Poubel de Souza G,de Magalhães Araujo I,Firmino Nogueira-Neto J,Felzenszwalb I,Kovary K

更新日期：2000-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The birth of the twenty first century has provoked a substantial rise in the use of designer drugs, such as synthetic cathinones, because of a decrease in the availability and purity of other drugs of abuse. The khat plant or Catha edulis, contains cathinone, the parent compound. Synthetic cathinones are sold under th...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Katz DP,Bhattacharya D,Bhattacharya S,Deruiter J,Clark CR,Suppiramaniam V,Dhanasekaran M

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of vanadium oxide (V2O3), vanadyl sulfate (VOSO4) and ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3) in inducing sister chromatid exchange (SCE) and chromosomal aberrations (CAb) were assayed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. The toxic concentrations (TC50) for these compounds were found to be 25, 23 and 16 micrograms el...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Owusu-Yaw J,Cohen MD,Fernando SY,Wei CI

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) has a salutary effect on hemorrhagic, traumatic and endotoxic shock. The role of FDP on compound 48/80-induced shock was therefore investigated. Sprague Dawley aged male rats (448+/-7.4 gm body weight) were randomly assigned into three groups and treated intraperitoneally with diphenhydr...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Figueroa AH,Stone RH,Cohly HH,Lehan PH,Markov AK

更新日期：2001-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Betel quid chewing, which contributes high concentration of safrole in saliva, is a popular oral habit in Taiwan. Safrole is a documented rodent hepatocarcinogen, yet its hepatocarcinogenic potential in human is not known. Here, we used LC/ESI-ITMS(n) and LC/QTOF-MS confirmed safrole-dGMP as reference standard to dete...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Chung YT,Chen CL,Wu CC,Chan SA,Chi CW,Liu TY

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Swiss OF1 mice received a single oral dose of either 80 mg/kg hexachloro-1,3-butadiene (HCBD) or 80 mg/kg methyl mercury (MeHg). Examination of cryostat kidney sections stained for alkaline phosphatase (APP) revealed damage to about 50% of the proximal tubules after 8 h. Pretreatment with the gamma-glutamyltransp...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： de Ceaurriz J,Ban M

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Localization of specific mRNA and protein molecules within cells and tissues can provide important information on the effects of a drug within a biological test system and help elucidate mechanisms of drug-induced toxicity and organ dysfunction. The most widely used techniques for measuring the cellular and tissue dis...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kind CN

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous and mitomycin C-induced sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) in lymphocytes were analyzed in 24 non-smokers and 24 sex- and age-matched smokers. Mean spontaneous SCE frequency for non-smokers was 9.8 SCEs/cell, and that for smokers was 11.5 SCEs/cell. The difference was statistically significant (P less than ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Nagaya T,Toriumi H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of zinc(II) on the toxicokinetics of 2,5-hexanedione (2,5-HD), the ultimate toxic metabolite of n-hexane, was performed by quantifying the changes of two urinary biomarkers, free 2,5-HD and pyrrole derivatives, in rats exposed to 2,5-HD and to 2,5-HD plus zinc acetate. Eight groups of Wistar rats were ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Mateus ML,dos Santos AP,Batoréu MC

更新日期：2001-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:1. General anesthesia is achieved by anesthetic action in the central nervous system (CNS). 2. Whereas amnesia and unconsciousness are due to anesthetic action in the brain, recent evidence suggests that immobility in response to a noxious stimulus is achieved by anesthetic effects in the spinal cord. The putative spi...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Antognini JF,Carstens E

更新日期：1998-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermal toxicity of the new multi-insect repellent N,N-diethylphenylacetamide (DEPA) was studied in female rabbits. LD50 of DEPA was estimated to be 3505 mg/kg b.w. On daily topical application for 21 d at a dose of 50 mg/kg b.w., dermal irritancy score and blood chemistry changes indicated that the compound is non-irr...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Rao SS,Agarwal MK,Rao KM,Swamy RV

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-activated sodium channels and GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex are among the most important target sites of various environmental neurotoxicants. Pyrethroids keep the sodium channels open for prolonged periods of time leading to hyperexcitation of the entire nervous system. In rat cerebellar Purkinje ne...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Narahashi T,Carter DB,Frey J,Ginsburg K,Hamilton BJ,Nagata K,Roy ML,Song JH,Tatebayashi H

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzophenone-3 (2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone, BZ-3) is a UV absorber that is used extensively in medicine, cosmetics and industry as a sunscreen and color fastener. Exposure to the chemical is through the dermal and oral route. Bioavailability of the chemical absorbed through the skin is different from that seen th...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Okereke CS,Abdel-Rhaman MS,Friedman MA

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin (DOXO) is an anthracycline antibiotic which is used in the treatment of human malignancies such as leukemia, lymphoma and a number of solid tumors, particularly breast cancer. Anthracyclines have been reported to contaminate chemotherapy workstation surfaces as well as other workplaces surfaces. The occupa...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Boccellino M,Pedata P,Castiglia L,La Porta R,Pieri M,Quagliuolo L,Acampora A,Sannolo N,Miraglia N

更新日期：2010-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanism of PAH mixtures, using granulosa tumour cells, was investigated. Cells were exposed to a mixture of all 16 priority PAHs (M1) or a mixture of five PAHs not classified as human carcinogens (M2). The effect of siAHR, siAHRR and siNFKB2 on the expression of CYP1A1, CYP1B1, GSTM1, ERα, AR and cell proliferation ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Zajda K,Rak A,Ptak A,Gregoraszczuk EL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silica exposure results in an initially acute inflammatory response followed by chronic fibrotic change. The mechanism for the maintenance of silica-induced inflammation has not been understood yet. In silica-induced acute inflammation and chronic fibrosis, various mediators such as reactive oxygen species, cytokines ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Lim Y,Kim JH,Kim KA,Chang HS,Park YM,Ahn BY,Phee YG

更新日期：1999-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of linolic acid hydroperoxides (product A) and secondary oxidative products of product A (product B), were examined in an in vivo mid-term test for hepatocarcinogens or hepatopromoters in rats. The number of placental type of glutathione S-transferase (GST-P)-positive foci of the liver was significantly re...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hirose M,Thamavit W,Asamoto M,Osawa T,Ito N

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of chrysotile dust alone or together with Candida albicans administered intratracheally in guinea pigs was studied in the genesis of pleural plaques over a period of 12 months. A significant increase of mucopolysaccharides, phosphorus, calcium and -SH content was detected in pleural fluid of animals treated wit...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Saxena KC,Srivastava L,Ali S,Dogra RK

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of isoflavones on estrogen sensitive tissues are discussed controversially. This study was designed to investigate tissue specific effects of an isoflavone exposure through different periods of life in female Wistar rats and to compare the effects of genistein (GEN) to those of mixed dietary isoflavones, GEN a...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hertrampf T,Ledwig C,Kulling S,Molzberger A,Möller FJ,Zierau O,Vollmer G,Moors S,Degen GH,Diel P

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Small molecular weight chemicals may irritate tissues via the induction of the production of various proinflammatory and chemotactic molecules. The structure of these irritants is heterogenous, as is the pattern of their effects. Chemicals are potentially allergenic (i.e. haptens) when they are able to bind proteins s...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kapsenberg ML

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since cell death by apoptosis is achieved through complex interactions between numerous molecular components, cells may fail to die when stimulated because of molecular abnormalities in the apoptosis pathway or in its control mechanisms. Such inappropriate cell survival is well established when apoptosis is suppressed...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Williams GT,Critchlow MR,Hedge VL,O'Hare KB

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of sublethal concentration (0.8 of LC50 96 h) of nickel sulphate (NiSO4 X 7H2O) on muscle glycogen and blood lactic acid levels of a freshwater teleost, Colisa fasciatus, at time intervals from 3-96 h have been recorded. Muscle glycogen levels showed a general decrease at all time intervals compared with contr...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Chaudhry HS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) The hypothesis that inhalational anesthetics affect G-protein linked alpha2 adrenergic signaling pathway was investigated using human platelets as a model system. (2) Alpha2 receptor stimulation by UK-14304, a potent and selective agonist, inhibits cAMP production induced by prostaglandin I2 (PGI2). (3) Brief stim...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Pentyala S,Moller D,Chowdhury A,Sung KY,Rebecchi M

更新日期：1998-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Goniothalamin, a styryllactone, has been shown to induce cytotoxicity via apoptosis in several tumor cell lines. In this study, we have examined the potential role of several genes, which were stably transfected into T-cell lines and which regulate apoptosis in different ways, on goniothalamin-induced cell death. Over...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Inayat-Hussain SH,Wong LT,Chan KM,Rajab NF,Din LB,Harun R,Kizilors A,Saxena N,Mourtada-Maarabouni M,Farzaneh F,Williams GT

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates an intraspecies difference in elimination of methylmercury between two genetic variant strains of mice. Following a single non-toxic dose of 203Hg labeled methylmercury (0.5 mg Hg/kg i.p.), the half-time of 203Hg elimination in the CBA/J inbred strain was 7.4 days compared to 3.0 days in the CF...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kostyniak PJ

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidences suggest that microcystins, a kind of toxic metabolites, produced by cyanobacteria in contaminated water may contribute to the aggravation of the human colorectal carcinoma. Our previous study showed that microcystin-LR (MC-LR) exposure caused significant invasion and migration of colorectal cancer...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Ren Y,Yang M,Chen M,Zhu Q,Zhou L,Qin W,Wang T

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have linked ambient fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameters less than 2.5 μm, PM₂.₅) air pollution to increased morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases in the general population, but the biologic mechanisms of these associations are yet to be elucidated. In this study, we aimed to evalua...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Xu X,Deng F,Guo X,Lv P,Zhong M,Liu C,Wang A,Tzan K,Jiang SY,Lippmann M,Rajagopalan S,Qu Q,Chen LC,Sun Q

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant protection products have to be evaluated and authorized in the EC-Member States since 1993 in accordance with Directive 91/414/EEC. The programme for evaluating existing active substances (which were on the market before July 1993) involves several steps and stages, stretching over a period of up to formerly 10,...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Flynn DJ,Lundehn JR

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of the growing small animal skeleton has been developed. The model accurately reproduces a variety of different kinds of measurements made at different ages in different species, as well as reproducing a precise and detailed series of measurements in the growing guinea pig. Of the multiple mechanisms responsib...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： O'Flaherty EJ

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00