Effect of viability of actinomycete spores on their ability to stimulate production of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species in RAW264.7 macrophages.

abstract：:Organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides are compounds that can be detected in human populations as a result of occupational or residential exposure. Despite their occurrence in considerably low levels in humans, their biological effects are hazardous since they interact with a plethora of enzymes, proteins, rece...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Androutsopoulos VP,Hernandez AF,Liesivuori J,Tsatsakis AM

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to investigate the involvement of oxidative damage in lead-induced toxicity in humans and to enlighten whether oxidative stress indicators are correlated with the known indices of lead toxicity. For these purposes, selected oxidative stress parameters along with some clinical indices o...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Gurer-Orhan H,Sabir HU,Ozgüneş H

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily oral administration of either 20, 40 or 60 mg/kg chlorphentermine for 7 days significantly increased liver and kidney DNA levels, which were not elevated further even after a 3 week treatment period. Although cessation of drug administration for 3 weeks resulted in a return of hepatic DNA levels to control value...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Kacew S,Dubas TC,Stevenson AJ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that excess dietary Al during development can affect neurobehavioral measures and decrease tissue Mn of 21-day-old weanling mice without a corresponding increase in tissue Al concentrations. Al and Mn have similar tissue concentrations and similar affinities for transferrin, which is the ma...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Golub MS,Han B,Keen CL,Gershwin ME

更新日期：1993-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In several separate experiments neonatal rats were intubated daily with 9, 27 or 81 mg lead acetate/kg of body weight throughout their 3-week postnatal period of development. Based on average body weights, the total daily lead intake was 0.156, 0.454 or 1.384 mg lead per animal, respectively (in addition to normal lea...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sobotka TJ,Brodie RE,Cook MP

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formaldehyde (FA) is an important substance that induces sick house syndrome and diseases, such as asthma and allergies. Oxidative stress is involved in the development of respiratory disease, and diverse antioxidants may protect respiratory tract cells from apoptosis. Peroxiredoxin is a pivotal endogenous antioxidant...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Lim SK,Kim JC,Moon CJ,Kim GY,Han HJ,Park SH

更新日期：2010-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-known that organotellurium compounds can have antioxidant activity in vitro, but in vivo these compounds can be potentially toxic to rodents. Here we investigated the potential in vitro and ex vivo toxicity of a new beta-organochalcogenyl vinylphosphonate, the diethyl 2-phenyl-2 tellurophenyl vinylphosphona...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： de Avila DS,Beque MC,Folmer V,Braga AL,Zeni G,Nogueira CW,Soares FA,Rocha JB

更新日期：2006-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept that the highly reactive hydroxyl radical (HO) could be generated from an interaction between superoxide (O(2)(-)) and hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) was proposed (with Joseph Weiss) in Professor Haber's final paper published in 1934. Until it was recognized that free radicals are produced in biological syst...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Kehrer JP

更新日期：2000-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of xenobiotic drugs and toxic compounds depend largely on their kinetic properties, which can be influenced by transmembrane drug transporters like MDR1/P-glycoprotein and the drug-conjugate transporters multidrug resistance protein (MRP) 1 and 2. As the dog is a preferential species used in the pharmacolo...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Conrad S,Viertelhaus A,Orzechowski A,Hoogstraate J,Gjellan K,Schrenk D,Kauffmann HM

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:1-Bromopropane (1-BP) intoxication is associated with depression and cognitive and memory deficits. The present study tested the hypothesis that 1-BP suppresses neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus, which is involved in higher cerebral function, in adult rats. METHODS:Four groups of 12 male Wistar rats were expos...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Zhang L,Nagai T,Yamada K,Ibi D,Ichihara S,Subramanian K,Huang Z,Mohideen SS,Naito H,Ichihara G

更新日期：2013-02-08 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：:Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)-induced lung damage in mice is an excellent model system for studying mechanisms of chemically-induced, reversible alveolar injury. Changes in the pulmonary contents of protein kinase C (PKC) and the calcium-dependent protease, calpain, were previously noted during the repair phase follo...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Miller AC,Dwyer-Nield LD,Malkinson AM

更新日期：1995-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we demonstrated the cytotoxic effect of a dimethylarsenic compound in seaweed, (R)-(2',3'-dihydroxypropyl) 5- deoxy-5-dimethylarsinoyl-beta-D-riboside, namely arsenosugar (AsSug), on mammalian cells, murine macrophages, in comparison with that of an inorganic arsenical, arsenite, in vitro. More t...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Sakurai T,Kaise T,Ochi T,Saitoh T,Matsubara C

更新日期：1997-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ochratoxin A (OCT A) has the potential to cause myelotoxicity in addition to the well-known toxic effects on the liver and kidney. Whereas in previous studies the bone marrow parameters were examined shortly after injection, experiments reported here were designed to determine whether mice would recover from the myelo...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Hong HH,Jameson CW,Boorman GA

更新日期：1988-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence has demonstrated that women are more vulnerable than men to the toxic effects of alcohol, although the results as to whether gender differences exist in ethanol-induced brain damage are contradictory. We have reported that ethanol, by activating the neuroimmune system and Toll-like receptors 4 (T...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Alfonso-Loeches S,Pascual M,Guerri C

更新日期：2013-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This review concerns some of the cell culture systems that are most frequently used in toxicology investigations. In particular, it sets out to evaluate the effectiveness of these cell culture systems in assessing the toxic potential of chemicals. Metabolic studies and general and specific toxicology investigations ar...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Stammati AP,Silano V,Zucco F

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystins are cyclic heptapeptide toxins produced by certain strains of Microcystis aeruginosa and microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is the most toxic among the 70 variants isolated so far. These toxins have been implicated in both human and livestock mortality. In the present study we investigated the microcystin-LR induced ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Jayaraj R,Anand T,Rao PV

更新日期：2006-03-15 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：:The influence of the insertion of a liver into the perfusion circuit of a lung on the availability of benzo[a]pyrene and benzo[a]pyrene metabolites to the lung was examined. Perfused lungs from 5,6-benzoflavone pretreated rats release high quantities of free benzo[a]pyrene metabolites and conjugates into the perfusion...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Mollière M,Foth H,Kahl R,Kahl GF

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat kidney slices were produced using a modified version of a mechanical tissue slicer. The slices were incubated with various concentrations of L-cysteine conjugates and mercapturic acids of halogenated alkenes in a submersion incubation system. The slices showed a time- and concentration-dependent toxicity to the ne...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Stijntjes GJ,Commandeur JN,te Koppele JM,McGuinness S,Gandolfi AJ,Vermeulen NP

更新日期：1993-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has indicated that testosterone pretreatment protects against cadmium-induced toxicity in male rats while other data indicate that pretreatment of mice with testosterone offers no such protection against cadmium. Since cadmium toxicity may vary widely with species and strain, we examined the effect of te...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Shimada H,Bare RM,Hochadel JF,Waalkes MP

更新日期：1997-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical methods have been widely used to determine the histogenesis of spontaneous and chemically-induced mouse lung tumors. Typically, antigens for either alveolar Type II cells or bronchiolar epithelial Clara cells are studied. In the present work, the morphological and immunohistochemical phenotype of a...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Hicks SM,Vassallo JD,Dieter MZ,Lewis CL,Whiteley LO,Fix AS,Lehman-McKeeman LD

更新日期：2003-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Chinese hamster cells with 1 mM tertiary-butylhydroperoxide (t-BuOOH) for 1 h markedly inhibited the activity of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px). However, the activity returned to pre-inhibition levels within 1-2 h with post-treatment incubation. The inhibition of the activity of GSH-Px by t-BuOOH was enh...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Ochi T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is associated with many etiological causes such as nutrition, cytokines, hormones, and aging. Recently, reactive oxygen species (ROS) are considered to be responsible for the aging process and osteoporosis. We investigated the relationship between ROS and bone metabolism in young female and postmenopausal...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Isomura H,Fujie K,Shibata K,Inoue N,Iizuka T,Takebe G,Takahashi K,Nishihira J,Izumi H,Sakamoto W

更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent epidemiological studies have reported associations between the consumption of chlorinated drinking water and various types of human cancer; in addition, exposure to chlorine (Cl-) in drinking water has been reported to suppress certain immune functions in laboratory animals. The current studies were conducted t...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： French AS,Copeland CB,Andrews DL,Wiliams WC,Riddle MM,Luebke RW

更新日期：1998-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to examine the effects of iodoacetic acid, a non-phorbol tumor promoter, on metabolic cooperation between mutant human fibroblasts as measured by [14C]citrulline incorporation. Other thiol-reactive polyphenolic compounds such as hydroquinone and 2-hydroxyestrone were also examined. 12-...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Si EC,Pfeifer RW,Yim GK

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solar radiation induces acute and chronic reactions in human and animal skin. Chronic repeated exposures are the primary cause of benign and malignant skin tumors, including malignant melanoma. Among types of solar radiation, ultraviolet B (290-320 nm) radiation is highly mutagenic and carcinogenic in animal experimen...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Ichihashi M,Ueda M,Budiyanto A,Bito T,Oka M,Fukunaga M,Tsuru K,Horikawa T

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of accurate and sensitive methods for the measurement of cytokines in body fluids is an absolute prerequisite for the proper use of these mediators in clinical practice. Many factors contribute to the complexity of cytokines quantitation: these molecules circulate at very low levels (e.g. pg/ml) under various ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Bienvenu JA,Monneret G,Gutowski MC,Fabien N

更新日期：1998-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine disruptors (EDs) are exogenous substances or xenoestrogens natural or synthetic, capable of interacting with different systems and altering their normal hormonal regulation, being the reproductive system one of the most affected. EDs produce their effects not only by acting on nuclear steroid receptors, but ...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Ponzo OJ,Silvia C

更新日期：2013-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is a common drinking water disinfection byproduct that produces a spectrum of liver effects, including hepatomegaly and liver tumors, in mice. It is also an oxidative metabolite of trichloroethylene (TCE), a solvent used in degreasing with widespread environmental exposure, which also produc...

journal_title：Toxicology

authors： Chiu WA

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00