Effectiveness of methyrapone in the treatment of acetaminophen toxicity in mice.

abstract：:In this study, some biochemical features and the extent of inhibition induced by the organophosphorous pesticide azinphos-methyl on the cholinesterase (ChE) activity present in whole soft tissue of two freshwater invertebrate species, the gastropod Biomphalaria glabrata and the oligochaete Lumbriculus variegatus were ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Kristoff G,Guerrero NV,de D'Angelo AM,Cochón AC

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary dialkylphosphates (DAPs) are measured to assess exposure to organophosphorus pesticides (OPs), but they are common metabolites of OPs and not specific indices for individual agents. Biomonitoring (BM) of urinary DAPs has been widely adopted as an assessment of individual exposure in general environments, howev...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sato H,Ito Y,Hanai C,Nishimura M,Ueyama J,Kamijima M

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Some effects of organophosphorus compounds (OPs) esters cannot be explained by action on currently recognized targets acetylcholinesterase or neuropathy target esterase (NTE). In previous studies, in membrane chicken brain fractions, four components (EPα, EPβ, EPγ and EPδ) of phenyl valerate esterase activity (PVase) ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Estévez J,Benabent M,Selva V,Mangas I,Sogorb MÁ,Del Rio E,Vilanova E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, styrene is hepatotoxic, pneumotoxic, and causes lung tumors. One explanation for the mechanism of toxicity is oxidative stress/damage. Previous studies have shown decreased glutathione levels, linked to increased apoptosis, in lung homogenates and isolated Clara cells 3 h following styrene or styrene oxide (S...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Harvilchuck JA,Pu X,Klaunig JE,Carlson GP

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanism of hepatocarcinogenesis due to dicyclanil (DC), an insect growth regulator for sheep, histopathological and molecular biological analyses were performed in the liver of male ICR mice fed on a diet containing 1500 ppm of DC for 2 weeks (Experiment I; Exp. I). In gene expression analyses usi...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Moto M,Okamura M,Muto T,Kashida Y,Machida N,Mistumori K

更新日期：2005-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Field observations of endocrine disruption (ED) in fish and other aquatic species have contributed to a global effort to establish test methods for detecting ED effects in wildlife species. For ecological risk assessment, validated tests are needed for Amphibia, fish and aquatic invertebrates, supported by a tiered ap...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Hutchinson TH,Pickford DB

更新日期：2002-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The ligand-activated nuclear receptor AhR (aryl hydrocarbon receptor) mediates the response of hepatocytes to various exogenous compounds. AhR is classically activated by planar, aromatic hydrocarbons, but also by other, structurally rather unrelated compounds. Recent data show that the canonical Wnt/β-catenin signali...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Vaas S,Kreft L,Schwarz M,Braeuning A

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined that the addition of 3-phenylamino-L-alanine (PAA), a recently reported contaminant in L-tryptophan implicated in the eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome, affects tryptophan binding by utilizing an in vitro measurement of 3H-tryptophan binding to hepatic nuclei or nuclear envelopes. PAA (10(-10) to 10(-4)...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sidransky H,Verney E,Cosgrove JW,Latham PS

更新日期：1994-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent attention to methanol (MeOH) as a potential alternative fuel prompted an evaluation of the chemical's effects during early pregnancy. Rats were dosed by gavage during Days 1-8 of pregnancy at 0, 1.6, 2.4, or 3.2 g MeOH/kg/day. Groups of animals were killed on Days 9, 11, or 20 of pregnancy, and maternal, embryo...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Cummings AM

更新日期：1993-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple and efficient ex vivo/in vitro screening systems for contact allergens are developed for alternative to conventional animal tests. We have previously proposed an ex vivo/in vitro proliferation assay as a first stage screening method with advantages over existing alternatives, using lymph node cells (LNC) from s...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Kashima R,Oyake Y,Okada J,Ikeda Y

更新日期：1996-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Technical pentabrominated diphenyl ether (pentaBDE mix) is a mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) which has been widely used as a flame retardant. Since its ban in several countries it has been replaced by other brominated flame retardants such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD). Both certain PBDE congeners...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Fery Y,Buschauer I,Salzig C,Lang P,Schrenk D

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several nitrocompounds have been screened for carcinogenicity in rodents, but this is a lengthy and expensive process, taking two years and typically costing 2.5 million dollars, and uses large numbers of animals. There is, therefore, much impetus to develop suitable alternative methods. One possible way of predicting...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Morales AH,Pérez MA,Combes RD,González MP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates the influence of different levels of Schistosoma mansoni infection (60, 120, 180, 300, 600 cercariae per mice) after 33 days on the activity of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) and the formation of hepatic hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) during the metabolic activation of benzo(a)pyrene [...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Awney HA,Ghzlan HE,Sheweita SA,Mostafa MH

更新日期：2001-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:CI-959 is an orally effective inhibitor of cellular activation in both in vitro and animal models. To assess the effects of CI-959 on immune function, male Fischer 344 rats were evaluated for splenic T- and B-lymphocyte populations, antibody-forming cell response to sheep red blood cells (sRBC), concanavalin A and pok...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Bleavins MR,de la Iglesia FA,McCay JA,White KL Jr,Munson AE

更新日期：1995-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Some organophosphorus compounds (OP) induce a delayed polyneuropathy (OPIDP) which is initiated by the phosphorylation of the so-called neuropathy target esterase (NTE). In this work some aspects of hen sciatic nerve NTE are studied. The assay method is reported and modifications are discussed and a combined method pr...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Barril JB,Vilanova E,Pellin MC

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium dichromate was given to female Swiss mice (25 mg/kg per day) orally in water for 1-3 days. Brain homogenates were prepared to evaluate the occurrence of oxidative stress in this organ through the measurement of the antioxidant defense levels, and the extent of lipid peroxidation. In addition, mitochondrial f...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Travacio M,María Polo J,Llesuy S

更新日期：2000-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for the optimal expression of the human CYP1B1 hemoprotein in Escherichia coli have been investigated. CYP1B1 cDNA was prepared from a retinal cDNA template and used to generate cDNA fragments with modified 5'-sequences reported to allow enhanced expression in E. coli DH5alpha. Plasmids were constructed, us...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Jansson I,Stoilov I,Sarfarazi M,Schenkman JB

更新日期：2000-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats provided with a 5 or 15% (v/v) ethanol solution as the sole source of fluid consumed ethanol at a rate of 11.4 or 24.9% of total calories (4.2 or 8.3 g/kg daily). After ethanol consumption lasting 1, 2 and 3 weeks the hepatotoxicity of CCl4 (0.1 ml/kg i.p.) was elevated by determination of serum activities o...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Strubelt O,Obermeier F,Siegers CP,Vöpel M

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of administration of a glutamate-containing protein hydrolysate on the arcuate nucleus of 10-day-old mice was studied by two methods. Arcuate nucleus damage resulted when administration was by a single large subcutaneous dose (100 ml/kg). When the same total dose was administered subcutaneously in five smal...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Guzman RJ,Irwin RG,Hansen DM,Hidalgo J

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferators (PP) are a large class of structurally diverse chemicals that mediate their effects in the liver mainly through the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARalpha). Exposure to PP results in down-regulation of CYP2C family members under control of growth hormone and sex steroids i...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Fan LQ,Brown-Borg H,Brown S,Westin S,Mode A,Corton JC

更新日期：2004-10-15 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：:It is generally believed that estrogen receptor-dependent and -independent pathways are involved in mediating the developmental effects of the synthetic estrogen, diethylstilbestrol (DES). However, the precise role and extent to which each pathway contributes to the resulting pathologies remains unknown. We have emplo...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Couse JF,Korach KS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromofenofos (BF) was administered by gavage once to non-pregnant and pregnant rats at 50 mg/kg and the plasma concentration-time curves of BF and its metabolite dephosphate bromofenofos (DBF) were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. DBF reached a peak at 9 h, with 113.4 +/- 5.2 micrograms/ml, follow...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Yoshimura H,Endoh YS

更新日期：1989-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were designed to assess the mechanisms of diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP)-induced changes in thermoregulation of the rat. In one study, male rats of the Long-Evans strain were injected with DFP (s.c.) at doses ranging from 0 to 2.0 mg/kg while maintained at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 20--24 degrees C...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Gordon CJ,Fogelson L,Lee L,Highfill J

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferrets were maintained for 12 months on different diets (A, meat and biscuit; B, all meat; C, meat and fish; D, high fibre) to ascertain the cause of spontaneous development of fatty liver. High hepatic triglyceride contents resulted on diets B = C > D; whereas ferrets on diet A (control) showed no accumulation of li...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Shavila J,King LJ,Parke DV

更新日期：1996-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess whether microwave-induced DNA damage is basal or it is also generated through reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation. After having irradiated Wistar rats with 915MHz microwave radiation, we assessed different DNA alterations in peripheral leukocytes using standard and formamidopyri...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Garaj-Vrhovac V,Gajski G,Trosić I,Pavicić I

更新日期：2009-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is an endocrine disruptor that promotes breast cancer (BCa) development. Estrogen synthesis, through aromatase activation, is essential for BCa promotion and progression through activating the G-coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER1), regulating rapid nongenomic effects involved in cell proliferation and migratio...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Reyes-Vázquez L,Hernández AJA,Calderón-Aranda ES

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic arsenic (iAs), a ubiquitous element and a natural drinking water contaminant, has been found to impair male reproductive function. However, the effect of long-term exposure to arsenic on testis damage and its underlying mechanisms still require further evaluation. In the study, male C57BL/6 mice (4 weeks) we...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Zeng Q,Yi H,Huang L,An Q,Wang H

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single oral administration of O, O, S-trimethyl phosphorothioate (OOS-Me), an impurity in widely used organophosphorus insecticides, causes delayed toxicity (delayed death) which is accompanied by morphological changes in the bronchiolar epithelium of rat lungs. A series of simple O,O-dimethyl and O,O-diethyl S-alky...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Gandy J,Ali FA,Hasegawa L,Imamura T

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothionein, a low molecular weight cadmium-binding protein, has been determined for the first time in urine of "itai-itai" disease patients and other Japanese women environmentally exposed to cadmium. On a group basis, the urinary metallothionein levels of "itai-itai" disease patients and suspected patients were ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Tohyama C,Shaikh ZA,Nogawa K,Kobayashi E,Honda R

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00