Gambogic acid induces G0/G1 arrest and apoptosis involving inhibition of SRC-3 and inactivation of Akt pathway in K562 leukemia cells.

abstract：:Direct ingestion of contaminated soil by depleted uranium (DU) might lead to internal exposure to DU by local populations through hand contamination. The purpose of this study was to assess the immunological changes of long-term exposure to various doses of DU in mice. Three-week-old Kunming mice were divided into the...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Hao Y,Ren J,Liu J,Yang Z,Liu C,Li R,Su Y

更新日期：2013-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Envenoming by the pitviper Bothrops jararacussu produces cardiovascular alterations, including coagulopathy, systemic hemorrhage, hypotension, circulatory shock and renal failure. In this work, we examined the activity of this venom in rat isolated right atria. Incubation with venom (0.025, 0.05, 0.1 and 0.2mg/ml) cau...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Rodrigues MA,Dias L,Rennó AL,Sousa NC,Smaal A,da Silva DA,Hyslop S

更新日期：2014-09-02 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：:Pharmacological evidence has accumulated showing that glucocorticoids and glucocorticoid receptor (GR) facilitate several responses to different drugs of abuse. Recent findings have attributed a prominent role to the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) in modulating behavior during the addictive process. The purpose of th...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Navarro-Zaragoza J,Laorden ML,Milanés MV

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have demonstrated that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons adversely affect mature mammalian immune systems. However, little is known about the cellular mechanism(s) mediating this immunosuppression or the potential for these ubiquitous environmental chemicals to similarly compromise lymphocyte development (...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Hinoshita F,Hardin JA,Sherr DH

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:NLRC5, a newly found member of the NLR family and the largest member of nucleotide-binding, has been reported to regulate immune responses and is associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We investigated the mechanisms and signaling pathways of NLRC5 in HCC progression. Increased expression of NLRC5, vascular en...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： He YH,Li MF,Zhang XY,Meng XM,Huang C,Li J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous exposure to cadmium and arsenic is highly probable in the urban area of San Luis Potosi, Mexico due to common localization of copper and zinc smelters. Therefore, in this work, rats were intraperitoneally exposed either to cadmium or arsenic alone, or simultaneously to both metals. The effects of these tr...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Díaz-Barriga F,Llamas E,Mejía JJ,Carrizales L,Santoyo ME,Vega-Vega L,Yáñez L

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organophosphorus nerve agent soman is an irreversible cholinesterase (ChE) inhibitor that can produce long-lasting seizures and brain damage in which the neurotransmitters acetylcholine and glutamate are involved. These same neurotransmitters play key-roles in the auditory function. It was then assumed that explor...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Job A,Baille V,Dorandeu F,Pouyatos B,Foquin A,Delacour C,Denis J,Carpentier P

更新日期：2007-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlordecone (CD) impairs biliary excretion of organic anions (including phenolphthalein glucuronide (PG), imipramine polar metabolites, and taurocholate) without evidence of hepatocellular necrosis in rats. In this study we investigated the hypothesis that CD-induced hepatobiliary dysfunction is dependent on CD concen...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Rochelle LG,Curtis LR

更新日期：1994-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Quartz is a well-known occupational fibrogenic agent able to cause fibrosis and other severe pulmonary diseases such as silicosis and lung cancer. The silicotic pathology owes its severity to the structural and chemo-physical properties of the particles such as shape, size and abundance of surface radicals. In earlier...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Pozzolini M,Vergani L,Ragazzoni M,Delpiano L,Grasselli E,Voci A,Giovine M,Scarfì S

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole body autoradiograms of mice injected with 2,2',3,3',6-[14C]pentachlorobiphenyl (I), 2,3,3',4',6-[14C]pentachlorobiphenyl (II), 2,2',3,5',6-[14C]pentachlorobiphenyl (III) and 2,3',4,5,5'-[14C]pentachlorobiphenyl (IV) showed a specific accumulation of I-III in the lung parenchyma, whereas IV did not accumulate in ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Brandt I,Mohammed A,Slanina P

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Rats were treated for 4 weeks with chlorphentermine hydrochloride (30 mg/kg, i.p., 5 days/seek), a regimen which causes a profound phospholipidosis in the alveolar macrophages (AMs). The susceptibility of these lipid-laden cells to lipid peroxidation was examined and compared to AMs from control (untreated) rats. Lipi...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Reasor MJ

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organophosphorus nerve agent soman is an irreversible cholinesterase (ChE) inhibitor that can produce long-lasting seizures and seizure-related brain damage (SRBD) in which acetylcholine and glutamate are involved. Since these neurotransmitters play a key-role in the auditory function, it was hypothesized that a h...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Carpentier P,Pouyatos B,Dorandeu F,Campo P,Baille V,Foquin A,Job A

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Following carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury, hepatotrophic factors are synthesized and released into the serum to facilitate the regeneration of damaged hepatic tissue. We investigated the possibility that immunosuppression could be mediated through induction of a serum factor(s) because in vivo exposure of B6...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Delaney B,Kaminski NE

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium being a potent immunotoxicant, affects both humoral and cell mediated immunity. However, its effect on spleen is not clearly understood. Hence, to delineate the action of Cd, mouse splenic lymphocytes were exposed to Cd (10, 25 and 50 microM) for 60 min, 1.5, 3, 6 and 18 h. At 6 h, apoptosis was reflected by D...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Pathak N,Khandelwal S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative DNA damage is emerging as an biomarker of effect in studies assessing the health risks of occupational chemicals. Trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PERC) are used in the dry cleaning industry and their metabolism can produce reactive oxygen compounds. The present study examined the potential for...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Toraason M,Clark J,Dankovic D,Mathias P,Skaggs S,Walker C,Werren D

更新日期：1999-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the maternal exposure effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and its metabolite aflatoxin M1, which is transferred into milk, on postnatal hippocampal neurogenesis, pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats were provided a diet containing AFB1 at 0, 0.1, 0.3, or 1.0 ppm from gestational day 6 to day 21 after delivery on weani...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Tanaka T,Mizukami S,Hasegawa-Baba Y,Onda N,Sugita-Konishi Y,Yoshida T,Shibutani M

更新日期：2015-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The intragastric administration to male Wistar rats of T-2 toxin at 1-1.3 mg/kg body weight for 7 days caused a sharp decrease in the liver activity of lysosomal enzymes: beta-galactosidase, beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase, alpha-mannosidase, cathepsins A, B, C and D and in the activity of enzymes of the 1st phase of met...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Kravchenko LV,Tutelyan VA,Vasilyev AV,Kranauskas AE,Avrenyeva LI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxalate is a minor, but important metabolite of ethylene glycol and has been directly linked with acute and subchronic renal toxicity in ethylene glycol poisoning. Numerous studies have characterized the cytotoxicity of oxalate as including plasma membrane damage and organelle injury. Oxalate has two forms in vivo: ox...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Guo C,McMartin KE

更新日期：2005-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin stimulates growth hormone (GH) release and induces positive energy balances. Previous studies have reported that ghrelin inhibits apoptosis in several cell types but the precise underlying protective mechanisms in pancreatic beta cells are poorly understood. Therefore, we investigated which pathway was related...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Zhang Y,Ying B,Shi L,Fan H,Yang D,Xu D,Wei Y,Hu X,Zhang Y,Zhang X,Wang T,Liu D,Dou L,Chen G,Jiang F,Wen F

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic treatment of BALB and GRS mice with BHT (2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol) following a single urethane injection increases lung tumor multiplicity, but this does not occur in CXB4 mice. Previous data suggest that promotion requires the conversion of BHT to a tert-butyl-hydroxylated metabolite (BHTOH) in lung a...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Thompson JA,Carlson TJ,Sun Y,Dwyer-Nield LD,Malkinson AM

更新日期：2001-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The nephrotoxicant and nephrocarcinogen tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)-phosphate (Tris-BP) is activated to products which bind covalently to microsomal protein by a cytochrome P-450 dependent oxidation reaction. Binding to rat liver microsomes proceeds 15 times faster than with kidney microsomes. The binding in liver microso...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Söderlund EJ,Nelson SD,Dybing E

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tert-butyl hydroperoxide (tBH) on the nucleotide level in isolated cardiomyocytes from adult rats was examined. Incubation of myocytes with the hydroperoxide resulted in loss of both ATP and NAD from mitochondria and cytosol. In contrast, only the cytosolic level of NADP was increased. The effect on myoc...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Andersson BS,Vidal RF,Sundberg M,Rajs J,Sótonyi P

更新日期：1996-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to compare the disposition and metabolism of [14C]1,2-dichloropropane [( 14C]DCP) following oral and inhalation exposure since these two routes are of interest with regards to occupational and accidental exposure. [14C]DCP was administered orally to groups of four rats of each sex as a ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Timchalk C,Dryzga MD,Smith FA,Bartels MJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of oxidative stress by 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) both as a pure compound and in commercial formulation was investigated during early pregnancy in mice. Pregnant animals were exposed to increasing doses of the herbicide (0.01, 0.1 and 100mg/kg/d) during gestation days 0-9, after which animals wer...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Dinamarca VM,Hidalgo ME,Cavieres MF

更新日期：2007-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing body of data has been demonstrating that mammalian cells have elaborate networks of molecular signalling in counteracting heat shock and in developing adaptation to oxidative stress to avoid cell death. However, the precise mechanisms linking heat shock, oxidative stress and cell survival/cell death mech...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Santos-Marques MJ,Carvalho F,Sousa C,Remião F,Vitorino R,Amado F,Ferreira R,Duarte JA,de Lourdes Bastos M

更新日期：2006-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cis-dichlorodiammine platinum II to cause chromosomal aberrations in rats and dominant lethality in mice was studied. Five daily intraperitoneal doses ranging from 0.25 to 2.00 mg/kg/day failed to result in the observance of dominant lethal mutations in mice. Intraperitoneal doses of 0.13 and 0.52 mg/kg...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Levine BS,Preache MM,Pergament E

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carcinogenic response of NZO/BlGd inbred mice of both sexes to oral N-nitrosohexamethyleneimine (NHEX) was investigated at 2 differing dose rates, but equal cumulative doses. Mice received 52 mg NHEX (2 mg/g body wt) in drinking water over either an 8-week period (200 mg/l) or a 32-week period (50 mg/l), and were ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Goodall CM,Lijinsky W

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00