In vitro prenatal developmental toxicity induced by some petroleum substances is mediated by their 3- to 7-ring PAH constituent with a potential role for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR).

abstract：:Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) is an environmental human carcinogen which primarily targets lungs. Among a variety of toxic mechanisms, disruption of biological pathways via translational and post-translational modifications represents a key mechanism through which Cr (VI) induces cytotoxicity and carcinogenesis. To id...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Bruno M,Ross J,Ge Y

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand environmental causes of disease, unbiased methods are needed to characterize the human exposome, which represents all toxicants to which people are exposed from both exogenous and endogenous sources. Because they directly modify DNA and important proteins, reactive electrophiles are probably the most imp...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Rappaport SM,Li H,Grigoryan H,Funk WE,Williams ER

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Harmonisation of risk assessment (RA) is one of the priorities for sound chemical management set by Chapter 19, Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) 1992 Earth Summit. The benefits of harmonisation are self evident and include transportability and consistency of RA outc...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Di Marco PN,Priestly BG,Buckett KJ

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon entering the body, nerve agents can bind active amino acid residues to form phosphonylated adducts. Tabun derivatives (O-alkyl-N,N-dialkyl phosphoroamidocyanidates) have strikingly different structural features from other G-series nerve agents, such as sarin and soman. Here, we investigate the binding mechanism f...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Fu F,Liu H,Gao R,Zhao P,Lu X,Zhang R,Wang L,Wang H,Pei C

更新日期：2020-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Styrene oxide, a metabolite of styrene, reacts with many centres in nucleosides but in DNA N-7-, N2- and O6-guanine are the main sites. A 32P-postlabelling method was developed for the detection of O6-styrene oxide DNA adducts from white blood cells. The method involved use of nuclease P1 and magnet transfer. The O6 a...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hemminki K,Vodicka P

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated rat hepatocytes incubated aerobically formed measurable amounts of ethane, a parameter for lipid peroxidation. This ethane formation increased several-fold due to carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) depending on its concentration. Cell damage as measured by trypan blue uptake and lactate dehydrogenase release poorly ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： de Ruiter N,Ottenwälder H,Muliawan H,Kappus H

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Troglitazone (Tro) is a thiazolidinedione antidiabetic drug that was withdrawn from the market due to its association with idiosyncratic severe liver injury. Tro has never induced liver injury in experimental animals in vivo. It was assumed that the species differences between human and experimental animals in the pha...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kakuni M,Morita M,Matsuo K,Katoh Y,Nakajima M,Tateno C,Yokoi T

更新日期：2012-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrylonitrile (AN) showed spectral interaction with hepatic microsomes from mouse, rat and man. Whereas human and rat liver microsomes resulted in ligand AN-binding spectra, mouse liver microsomes behaved differently. Hepatic microsomes from phenobarbital-treated mice with AN showed a type I substrate binding; ligand ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Appel KE,Peter H,Bolt M,Bolt HM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to determine agonist- and time-dependent phosphorylation of distinct proteins in bovine alveolar macrophages after activation with quartz dusts and heavy metal-coated silica particles. Silica particles were coated with vanadium oxide or cadmium oxide. Separation of proteins was achieved by one...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Radloff M,Delling M,Gercken G

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable and specific biomacromolecular adducts can be used to measure in vivo doses of reactive compounds. An LC/MS-MS method to measure adducts from the benzo[a]pyrene (BP) metabolite (±)-anti-BP-7,8-diol-9,10-epoxide ((±)-anti-BPDE) to His(146) in serum albumin (SA), earlier evaluated on in vitro alkylated human SA, ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Westberg EA,Singh R,Hedebrant U,Koukouves G,Souliotis VL,Farmer PB,Segerbäck D,Kyrtopoulos S,Törnqvist MÅ

更新日期：2015-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made of the effect of cadmium chloride and zinc acetate on the adherence of Streptococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli and Candida albicans to buccal cells from man. Cadmium led to a significant decrease in the adherence of the three microorganisms tested. Zinc increased the adherence of S. faecalis and...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Bhattacherjee JW,Saxena RP

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of paraquat on lung subcellular calcium transport was studied in male Sprague-Dawley rats. With a high dose of 30 mg/kg given i.p., a significant decrease in the lung mitochondrial and microsomal calcium uptake at 24, 48, and 72 h after paraquat was observed. Trend of recovery was evident at 96 h in the sur...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Agarwal AK,Coleman JW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lindane administration to rats (60 mg/kg b.w.) led to an enhancement in the oxidative stress status of the liver at 4 h after treatment, characterized by increases in hepatic thiobarbituric acid reactants (TBARS) formation and chemiluminescence, reduced glutathione (GSH) depletion, and diminution in the biliary conten...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Videla LA,Arisi AC,Fuzaro AP,Koch OR,Junqueira VB

更新日期：2000-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-damaging agents are commonly used as anticancer therapeutics. Unfortunately, such drugs induced DNA damages as well as DNA repair are important in mediating drug resistance to cancer treatments. To evaluate changes in DNA repair proteins that occur in DNA damage agent treatment, we challenged human A549 lung adeno...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Shen YH,Chen BR,Cherng SH,Chueh PJ,Tan X,Lin YW,Lin JC,Chuang SM

更新日期：2011-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrethroids, a group of insecticides with high efficiency, low toxicity and wide spectrum, are used for pest control in agriculture. Here, we administered two representative pyrethroids (cypermethrin and deltamethrin) and an equal volume of vehicle (corn oil) to the pregnant ICR mice. This study investigated the effec...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Guo J,Xu J,Zhang J,An L

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the effects of exposure to a 900 megahertz (MHz) electromagnetic field (EMF) on serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and triiodothronine-thyroxin (T3-T4) hormones levels of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were studied. Thirty rats were used in three independent groups, 10 of which were control (withou...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Koyu A,Cesur G,Ozguner F,Akdogan M,Mollaoglu H,Ozen S

更新日期：2005-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats were administered diets containing monobutyl (MBP), mono-iso-butyl (MIBP), monooctyl (MOP) or mono-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (MEHP) for 1 week, and serum lipid compositions were determined. Non-esterified fatty acid was increased and triglycerides and total cholesterol were decreased in all monoester-treated gr...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Oishi S,Hiraga K

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested a hypothesis that soybean lipoxygenase (SLO), a model enzyme, may be capable of generating a glutathione (GSH) conjugate(s) from p-aminophenol (PAP). Horseradish peroxidase was employed as a positive control. GSH depletion or an increase in the absorption at 327 nm with time due to GS-PAP formation w...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Yang X,Kulkarni AP

更新日期：2000-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Early detection and removal of harmful factors are essential to the proper physical and psychological development of the fetus, presumably showing the effects during the prenatal period and after birth. As one procedure to aid in understanding such factors, we have established a shell-less culture system for video mon...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hamamichi S,Nishigori H

更新日期：2001-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was carried out in order to investigate the effects of inhaled volatile anesthetic gases in subanesthetic concentrations on circulating hormones essential for normal male reproduction. Male mature rats were exposed daily, up to 11 days, to halothane or enflurane in concentrations up to 500 and 1000 p...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Cameron AM,Dale O,Haug E,Nilsen OG

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hsp90, p23 and other chaperosome proteins are critical for the function of several enzymes and steroid hormone receptors. The dioxin receptor (DR) is an Hsp90-regulated transcription factor that binds numerous toxic ligands, including the environmental contaminant 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo(p)dioxin. We used a yeast m...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Cox MB,Miller CA 3rd

更新日期：2002-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the oxidative effects of Fe(2)O(3), benzo(a)pyrene (B(a)P) and pyrene, alone or in association (B(a)P or pyrene coated onto Fe(2)O(3) particles), in normal human embryonic lung epithelial cells (L132) in culture. We evaluated: (i) membrane integrity, through fatty acid release ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Garçon G,Shirali P,Garry S,Fontaine M,Zerimech F,Martin A,Hannothiaux MH

更新日期：2000-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1997 and 2011, more than 200 new substances were notified through the early-warning system, with the record number of 49 novel molecules reported in 2011. The pattern of acute toxicity associated with the consumption of these new substances is generally similar to that seen with traditional drugs of abuse. Rec...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Coppola M,Mondola R

更新日期：2012-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Checkpoint kinase 1 (Chk1) is required for both intra-S phase and G2/M checkpoints in cell cycle, and plays critical roles in maintaining genomic stability and transducing DNA damage response. Chk1 deficiency has been shown to inhibit T-cell differentiation and resulted in severe anemia in a Chk1 heterozygous mouse mo...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hu W,Zong Q,John-Baptiste A,Jessen B

更新日期：2011-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to gain basic understanding in the ecotoxicity of endocrine disrupting chemicals or EDCs (including natural chemicals and some pharmaceuticals), many international research groups are currently testing these chemicals using aquatic invertebrates. This paper discusses relevant examples to address key questions...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hutchinson TH

更新日期：2002-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicity of methylmercury is sufficiently high to justify an evaluation of the risk from the consumption of contaminated food. In the method of risk assessment proposed here, distribution frequencies are assigned to the parameters in question, rather than mean values. Total body burden is estimated by numerical si...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Magnaval R,Batti R,Bouville A,Magnaval JP,Spear RC

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality control studies on cotinine measurements following low level environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure are rare. The exposure to ETS was controlled and systematically changed in a series of experiments in a climatic chamber. Healthy nonsmoking volunteers were exposed to ETS simultaneously. The duration and le...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Letzel H,Fischer-Brandies A,Johnson LC,Uberla K,Biber A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant gliomas are the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumor, and for which differentiation therapy has emerged as a promising candidate strategy. In this study, we used in vitro and in vivo assays to examine the differentiation effects of wogonin, a major active constituent of Scutellaria baicalensis...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Wang Y,Zhang Y,Qian C,Cai M,Li Y,Li Z,You Q,Wang Q,Hu R,Guo Q

更新日期：2013-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of telomerase, the enzyme that synthesizes the telomere ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes, is repressed in most normal human somatic cells but induced in most human cancers. Normal human cells that lack telomerase activity progressively lose telomere sequences. In contrast, most immortalized cell lines an...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Meyerson M

更新日期：1998-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the action of 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP) on the parameters of the cortical and peripheral evoked potentials was investigated in rats in different administration schemes (20 mg/kg i.p. during recording or 24 h before, and 5x 15 mg/kg daily 28 days before recording) to elucidate some neurophysiological ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Szabó A,Papp A,Nagymajtényi L,Vezér T

更新日期：2006-01-25 00:00:00