Protection against cigarette smoke-induced damage to intact transformed rabbit corneal cells by N-acetyl-L-cysteine.

abstract：:The mechanism by which lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) induces production of proinflammatory cytokines in murine macrophages, and the role of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) have not been well investigated. Activation of nuclear factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) is initiated by the...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Park SJ,Lee SC,Hong SH,Kim HM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal degradation process, and abnormal autophagy has been associated with various pathological processes, e.g., neurodegeneration, cancer, and pathogen infection. Small chemical modulators of autophagy show the potential to treat autophagy-associated diseases. Diterpenoids, nature product...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Huang L,Fu Q,Dai JM,Yan BC,Wang D,Puno PT,Yue J

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of cell death induced by toxins probably involve one or more processes such as inhibition of protein synthesis and impairment of plasma membrane integrity leading to an increase in membrane permeability. Since one of the possible actions of mastoparan, a cationic tetradecapeptide from wasp venom, is to pert...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Eng SP,Lo CS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lethal toxin of Bacillus anthracis, which is composed of two separate proteinaceous exotoxins, namely protective antigen and lethal factor, is central to the pathogenesis of anthrax. Low levels of this toxin are known to induce release of cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). In the present st...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Shin S,Hur GH,Kim YB,Yeon GB,Park KJ,Park YM,Lee WS

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol consumption has long been associated with brain damage. However, the mechanism underlying this deleterious effect remains unclear. Among different hypotheses, acetaldehyde is regarded by certain authors as playing a major role in the expression of ethanol toxicity, but there are still some uncertainties about ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Lamarche F,Gonthier B,Signorini N,Eysseric H,Barret L

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese exposure is among the many environmental risk factors linked to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, such as manganese-induced parkinsonism. In animal models, chronic exposure to manganese causes loss of cell viability, neurodegeneration, and functional deficits. Polyamines, such as spermine, have ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Vijayan B,Raj V,Nandakumar S,Kishore A,Thekkuveettil A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heat shock proteins (HSP) are induced during cellular stress. Their role is to chaperone cellular proteins giving protection from denaturation and ultimately preventing cell death. Monocytes are key cells involved in atherosclerosis and are highly responsive to HSP induction. Therefore, we wished to examine ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Madden J,Coward JC,Shearman CP,Grimble RF,Calder PC

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium, an essential metal that is important in the normal functioning of DNA, has been shown to interact with some of the toxic heavy metals in respect to biochemical and molecular mechanisms and in altering the tumorigenic process. This study examined the influence of magnesium in combination with nickel and cadm...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Littlefield NA,Hass BS,James SJ,Poirier LA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) as a serious event has high mortality and medical costs. Systemic inflammation and immune response are the major factors influencing the outcome and quality of patient with AECOPD. On basis of identification and validation of AECOPD-specific inflamma...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Shi L,Zhu B,Xu M,Wang X

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2,2'-Dichlorodiethyl sulfide (sulfur mustard, HD, 1,1'-thiobis [2-chloroethane]) is a potent vesicant which can cause severe lesions to skin, lung, and eyes. Due to the high number of debilitating exposures during the Iran-Iraq war to the alkylating agent, HD, there is an increased interest in its mechanism of action ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Meier HL

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harmful algal blooms (HABs) can have both lethal and sublethal impacts on shellfish. To understand the possible roles of haemocytes in bivalve immune responses to HABs and how the algae are affected by these cells (haemocytes), in vitro tests between cultured harmful algal species and haemocytes of the northern quahog...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Hégaret H,da Silva PM,Wikfors GH,Haberkorn H,Shumway SE,Soudant P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently, a large effort is being made worldwide to increase the sustainability of industrial development, while preserving not only the quality of the environment but also that of animal and human life. In this work, sea urchin early developmental stages were used as a model to test the effects of the organophosphat...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Aluigi MG,Angelini C,Corte G,Falugi C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generating large amounts of recombinant protein in transgenic animals is often challenging and has a number of drawbacks compared to cell culture systems. The baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) uses virus-infected insect cells to produce recombinant proteins to high levels, and these are usually processed in ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Hitchman RB,Possee RD,Crombie AT,Chambers A,Ho K,Siaterli E,Lissina O,Sternard H,Novy R,Loomis K,Bird LE,Owens RJ,King LA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin 3 (Gal-3) is upregulated in gastric epithelial cells as a host response to Helicobacter pylori infection. However, the significance of Gal-3 expression in H. pylori-infected cells is not well established. We analyzed Gal-3 intracellular expression, localization, and its effects in H. pylori-infected gastric e...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Subhash VV,Ho B

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase (MGMT) plays an important role in resistance to temozolomide (TMZ) in glioma, 40% of gliomas with MGMT inactivation are still resistant to TMZ. The underlying mechanism is not clear. Here, we report that forkhead box M1 (FoxM1) transcriptionally activates the expression of ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Peng WX,Han X,Zhang CL,Ge L,Du FY,Jin J,Gong AH

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The piperidine nitroxides Tempamine and Tempace have been studied for their effect on doxorubicin (DOX) and hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) cytotoxicity in immortalized B14 cells, a model for neoplastic phenotype. The significance for nitroxide performance of the substituent in position 4 of the piperidine ring was evalu...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Czepas J,Koceva-Chyła A,Gwoździński K,Jóźwiak Z

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four trichothecene mycotoxins--the type A trichothecenes T2-toxin and diacetoxyscirpenol and the type B trichothecenes nivalenol and deoxynivalenol--were studied. The effects of these mycotoxins on the expression of the sequentially expressed activation markers CD69, CD25, and CD71 and on proliferation of human lympho...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Johannisson A,Bjökhag B,Hansson W,Gadhasson IL,Thuvander A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bolesatine, a glycoprotein from Boletus satanas Lenz, has previously been shown to be mitogenic in rat and human lymphocytes at very low concentrations, whereas higher concentrations inhibited protein synthesis in vitro and in several in vivo systems. The low concentrations (1-10 ng/ml) of bolesatine were shown to act...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Ennamany R,Marzetto S,Saboureau D,Creppy EE

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[Pt(O,O'-acac)(γ-acac)(DMS)] (PtAcacDMS) is a new platinum compound showing low reactivity with nucleobases and specific reactivity with sulfur ligands intracellularly. It induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells, but appears to be less neurotoxic to the developing cerebellum than cisplatin (cisPt). The aim of this st...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Piccolini VM,Bottone MG,Bottiroli G,De Pascali SA,Fanizzi FP,Bernocchi G

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of some chelating agents to mobilize cadmium from Chinese hamster ovary cells after chronic exposure (20 hr), as well as from cytosolic metallothionein, was studied. In the first protocol, the most effective substance was 2,3-dimercaptopropanol, followed by 2,3-dimercaptopropane-1-sulfonate and 2,3-d...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Rau W,Planas-Bohne F,Taylor DM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A induces in vivo a severe nephrotoxicity characterized by a large decrease in renal hemodynamics. The aim of this study is to establish the ability of the known NO donor 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1) to prevent the cyclosporin A-induced contraction by using rat isolated glomeruli and cultured glomerular...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Potier M,Winicki J,Cambar J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effects of four quaternary benzo[c]phenanthridine alkaloids--chelerythrine, chelilutine, sanguinarine, and sanguilutine--and two quaternary protoberberine alkaloids-berberine and coptisine--on the human cell line HeLa (cervix carcinoma cells) and the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomy...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Slaninová I,Táborská E,Bochoráková H,Slanina J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes have the ability to go through specialized cell cycles, which, during normal developmental liver growth, result in the formation of binuclear and polyploid cells. In the adult rat liver, the majority of the hepatocytes (about 70%) are tetraploid, 15-20% are octoploid, and only 10-15% are diploid (about 50%...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Seglen PO

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin proteasome-proteolytic pathway has emerged as one of the most significant pathways in modulating protein homeostasis under both normal and disease states. The use of proteasome inhibitors (PI) has played a pivotal role in understanding protein turn over. The main objective of this work was to develop a c...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Keyomarsi K,Efuet ET,Bui TN

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-stable enterotoxin (Y-STa) produced by the pathogenic strains of Yersinia enterocolitica is a causative agent of secretory diarrhea. We have reported earlier that Y-STa-induced inositol trisphosphate-mediated cytosolic calcium rise occurs in rat intestinal epithelial cells. In the present communication, the i...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Saha S,Chowdhury P,Mazumdar A,Pal A,Das P,Chakrabarti MK

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tissue system in which fibroblasts and myocytes from chick embryonic hearts were separately maintained was used to study the toxicity of ethanol. To reproduce the teratogenic effects of acute, high concentrations of ethanol typical of "binge" drinking, an open tissue culture system was employed. With open cultures, ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Ni Y,Feng-Chen KC,Hsu L

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade, the unbound glutathione content of cultured adherent cells has become a very important biological marker for many pharmacological and toxicological in vitro studies with regard to the protective role of the tripeptide in its reduced form (GSH). However, the literature does not provide extensive...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Thioudellet C,Oster T,Leroy P,Nicolas A,Wellman M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies cadmium chloride (CdCl2) nonlethally inhibited Y-1 adrenal mouse adrenal tumour cell 20-dihydroxyprogesterone (20DHP) secretion, affecting unstimulated and stimulated steroidogenic pathway sites differently. We studied CdCl2 effects on unstimulated steroidogenesis using Y-1 cells incubated 0.5 h in...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Mgbonyebi OP,Smothers CT,Mrotek JJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive type of glioma. Temozolomide (TMZ) is currently the drug of choice used for post-operative chemotherapy of GBM. However, the presence of intrinsic and acquired resistance hinders the success of chemotherapy. To understand the TMZ resistant mechanisms in glioma, we investigated...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Tomar VS,Patil V,Somasundaram K

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine whether along and in combination melatonin (MLT) and pentoxifylline (PTX) exerted beneficial effects on histopathological changes and changes in oxidant and antioxidant systems in liver caused by CCl4-induced liver toxicity in mice. Mice were randomly divided into six groups: ...

journal_title：Cell biology and toxicology

authors： Noyan T,Kömüroğlu U,Bayram I,Sekeroğlu MR

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00