Influence of liver S-9 preparations from rats and rainbow trout on the activity of four mutagens.

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), are ubiquitous environmental pollutants found in tobacco smoke, air pollution, and grilled foods. Reactive metabolites and reactive oxygen species generated during PAH metabolism are detoxified by reactions involving glutathione (GSH). Early life...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Ortiz L,Nakamura B,Li X,Blumberg B,Luderer U

更新日期：2014-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicological data used for risk assessments must undergo an evaluation of reliability. Nevertheless, a reliability evaluation scheme for such data has yet to be established in China. A method termed TRAM (Toxicological data Reliability Assessment Method) was developed to evaluate toxicological data reliability. A que...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Bian Q,Ping Y,Jun W,Lyu Z,Song Y,Zhang L,Liu Z

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are contaminants that are ubiquitously found in the environment, produced through combustion of organic matter or petrochemicals, and many of which are procarcinogens. The prototypic PAH, benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) and the highly carcinogenic dibenzo[def,p]chrysene (DBC) are metabol...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Smith JN,Mehinagic D,Nag S,Crowell SR,Corley RA

更新日期：2017-03-05 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：:To clarify a possible mechanism of zinc (Zn)-induced tolerance to cadmium (Cd) toxicity on bone formation, femurs from 9-day-old chick embryos were cultured for 6 days by the roller-tube method in the presence of Cd (2, 4 or 9 microM) and/or Zn (60 microM). Zn prevented a decrease in bone growth caused by Cd at 4 and ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kaji T,Takata M,Hoshino T,Miyahara T,Kozuka H,Kurashige Y,Koizumi F

更新日期：1988-11-01 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 hepatotoxic effects of the oral administration of a single dose of 50 mg dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)/kg and daily doses of 5 mg and 1 mg/kg, respectively, to cats and lizards were studied by light microscopy. Centrilobular necrosis was the main alteration detected in the liver of cats as in other animal species stud...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Maduagwu EN,Anosa VO

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of sodium tellurite 0.1 and 0.4 mg/kg were assessed in the Morris water maze. Two days after treatment rats were tested for acquisition (posttreatment days 3-6) and on seventh day on a spatial retention task. Tellurium treatment was found to cause significant impairment in retention of the spatial learning...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Widy-Tyszkiewicz E,Piechal A,Gajkowska B,Smiałek M

更新日期：2002-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The color additive, amaranth, was given in the diet to provide dietary levels of 0 (control), 0.03, 0.09 and 0.27%, from 5 weeks of age in F0 generation mice to 9 weeks of age in F1 generation mice, and some reproductive, developmental and behavioral parameters were measured. There was no effect on the parameters of l...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Tanaka T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pigs could be immunologically sensitised (as shown by the development of antigen-specific homocytotropic antibodies) to toluene diisocyanate by exposing them for 3 h a day for 5 consecutive days to atmospheres containing free chemical. Pulmonary reactions could be elicited in many of the sensitised animals by c...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Botham PA,Hext PM,Rattray NJ,Walsh ST,Woodcock DR

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhesus monkeys exposed to marijuana smoke either 7 or 2 days/weeks (HI and LO groups, respectively), or ethanol-extracted marijuana smoke for 7 days/week (EM) or sham treatment (SH) for 1 year were sacrificed 7 months following the last exposure. Pulmonary levels of carcinogen-DNA adducts were determined. Although mea...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Talaska G,Schamer M,Bailey JR,Ali SF,Scallet AC,Slikker W Jr,Paule MG

更新日期：1992-12-01 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：:It has reported that many environmental compounds may display estrogenic actions and these findings led to researchers to associate breast cancer risk with the use of some pesticides. The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of chlorpyrifos (CPF) on cell proliferation and the ERα-dependence of this action em...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Ventura C,Núñez M,Miret N,Martinel Lamas D,Randi A,Venturino A,Rivera E,Cocca C

更新日期：2012-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) activity in urine was measured in patients with 'itai-itai' disease, from chronically advanced cadmium poisoning. Elevation of NAG activity, however, was not so marked as that of beta 2-microglobulin (beta 2-MG) in the urine of patients and suspected patients. We conclude that the...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Nogawa K,Yamada Y,Honda R,Tsuritani I,Ishizaki M,Sakamoto M

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:A detailed characterisation of the biotransformation pathways followed by the chemical of interest is, evidently, of primordial importance to design reliable biomonitoring programs. This short overview discusses some recent studies that are of potential interest for the development of new avenues of research. Four top...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Lison D

更新日期：1999-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Styrene-acrylonitrile trimer (SAN Trimer), a mixture of six isomers (four isomers of 4-cyano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-alpha-methyl-1-naphthaleneacetonitrile [THAN] and two isomers of 4-cyano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthaleneproprionitrile [THNP]), is a by-product of a specific production process of styrene-acrylonitrile poly...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Gargas ML,Collins B,Fennell TR,Gaudette NF Jr,Sweeney LM

更新日期：2008-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the results from past regulatory and mechanistic inhalation studies in rats with the type II pyrethroid Cyfluthrin. Apart from many chemical irritants, Cyfluthrin was shown to be a neuroexcitatory agent without any inherent tissue-destructive or irritant property. Thus, any Cyfluthrin-induced neuroe...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Pauluhn J

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular epidemiologic research involves the identification of relations between previous exposure to some putative causative agent and subsequent biological effects in a cluster of individuals in populations. There is intensive current research in the field of molecular epidemiology, and this research has a direct i...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Groopman JD,Kensler TW,Links JM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repeated dose toxicity of tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA), a flame retardant, was examined in male and female newborn rats given TBBPA orally at 0, 40, 200, or 600 mg/kg per day for 18 days from 4 days of age until weaning at 21 days of age. Half the rats in each dose group were sacrificed for a full gross necropsy ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Fukuda N,Ito Y,Yamaguchi M,Mitumori K,Koizumi M,Hasegawa R,Kamata E,Ema M

更新日期：2004-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Melamine can cause urinary stones related to nephropathy of the kidney and hyperplasia or carcinoma of the bladder, but the mechanism of stone formation is not well understood. In this study, male rats were administered melamine for thirteen weeks to establish melamine bladder stone models and the stones were analysed...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Liu JD,Liu JJ,Yuan JH,Tao GH,Wu DS,Yang XF,Yang LQ,Huang HY,Zhou L,Xu XY,Hu JJ,Zhuang ZX

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of zinc (Zn) administration on the uptake and retention of cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu) and Zn in liver, kidneys and testes of cadmium exposed rats was investigated. Exposure to Cd caused a significant increase in the uptake of these metals in the 3 organs. The administration of Zn after the Cd exposure had li...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Behari JR,Tandon SK

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress has been pointed as an important molecular mechanism for liver injury in methylmercury (MeHg) poisoning. Ebselen, a seleno-organic compound that possesses anti-oxidant properties, is a useful therapeutic agent used in clinical situations involving oxidative stress. Here, we examined the possible in vi...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Farina M,Soares FA,Zeni G,Souza DO,Rocha JB

更新日期：2004-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichothecenes are mycotoxins which produce lethal toxicosis in humans and animals, yet no adequate therapeutic regimen has been developed. This study provides evidence that the selective platelet activating factor (PAF) antagonist, BN 52021 (5-15 mg/kg i.v.) can prolong the survival of conscious rats exposed to a hig...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Feuerstein G,Leader P,Siren AL,Braquet P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed in a rat model of dichromate-induced acute renal failure (ARF) that the elimination but not the distribution of pralidoxime was altered resulting in sustained plasma pralidoxime concentrations. The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of pralidoxime in normal and acute renal failure rats ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kayouka M,Houzé P,Debray M,Baud FJ

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were treated with LiCl or RbCl in drinking water for 65 days. Spleen cells from both treated groups exhibited significantly greater proliferative responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) than those from untreated controls. Responses to concanavalin A (Con A) were not affected. Cytotoxic activities of natural killer ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Jones JM,Yeralan O,Hines G,Maher M,Roberts DW,Benson RW

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests HIV patients are at a greater risk for developing atherosclerosis. However, clinical investigations have generated conflicting results with regard to whether antiretrovirals are independently involved in the development of HIV-associated atherosclerosis. By administering antiretrovi...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Jiang B,Hebert VY,Khandelwal AR,Stokes KY,Dugas TR

更新日期：2009-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model describing the disposition of 2-butoxyethanol (2-BE) was developed in order to predict the urinary concentration of its major metabolite, butoxyacetic acid (BAA) under a range of exposure scenarios. Based on Corley et al. [Corley, R.A., Bormett, G.A., Ghanayem, B.I....

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Franks SJ,Spendiff MK,Cocker J,Loizou GD

更新日期：2006-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional gold mining, using metallic mercury (Hg(0)) to form gold amalgam, followed by burning to remove the Hg(0), is widely used in South America, Africa and Asia. The gold is sold to merchants who burn it again to eliminate remaining Hg(0). In Ecuador, 200 gold miners, 37 gold merchants and 72 referents were stu...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Harari R,Harari F,Gerhardsson L,Lundh T,Skerfving S,Strömberg U,Broberg K

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon nanotubes (CNT), despite their diverse application potential, have demonstrated adverse impacts in vitro and in vivo. Previous studies have focused on the combined in vitro cytotoxic impact of CNT aggregates and associated nanoparticulate impurities. However, the isolated effect of CNT aggregates and associated...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Raja PM,Connolley J,Ganesan GP,Ci L,Ajayan PM,Nalamasu O,Thompson DM

更新日期：2007-02-28 00:00:00