Acute Administration of Diazepam Provokes Redox Homeostasis Imbalance in the Rat Brain: Prevention by Simvastatin.

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cellular induction of reductase enzymes can alter the susceptibility of cells toward drugs and chemicals. In this study, we compared the capacity of a single dose of sodium selenite and 3H-1,2-dithiole-3-thione (D3T) to influence the drug-relevant reducing capacity of HT29 cells over time, and defined the pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Erzinger MM,Bovet C,Uzozie A,Sturla SJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have established the importance of estrogen-related receptor γ (ERRγ) as a required participant for insulin secretion in pancreatic β cells. Key downstream genes of ERRγ remain unclear in the pancreatic β cell. To understand the molecular role of ERRγ and elucidate potential key candidate genes involved...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Lei Z,JunHui L,PeiFeng L

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this work is to study the protective effects of Quercetin against sodium nitrite-induced hypoxia on liver, lung, kidney and cardiac tissues, also to explore novel mechanism of this compound. Male albino rats were injected with sodium nitrite (75 mg/kg). Quercetin (200 mg kg-1 ,- i.p.) was administrate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Al-Rasheed NM,Fadda LM,Attia HA,Ali HM,Al-Rasheed NM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrase (CA) was purified from Ağrı Balık Lake trout gill (fCA) by affinity chromatography on a sepharose 4B-tyrosine-sulfanilamide column. The fCA enzyme was purified with about a 303.9 purification factor, a specific activity 4130.4 EU (mg-protein)(-1), and a yield of 79.3 by using sepharose-4B-L tyrosine...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Demirdag R,Comakli V,Kuzu M,Yerlikaya E,Şentürk M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the protective effect of gossypol, selenium, zinc, or glutathione (GSH) against dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)-induced hepatotoxicity in the livers of male mice. The expression and the activity of glutathione S-transferase (GST), levels of GSH, and free radicals (malondialdehyde (MDA)), as we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Sheweita SA,Mousa N,Al-Masry HM

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA clone encoding a novel form of the cytochrome P450 3A subfamily (Cyp3a-25) has been isolated from a mouse liver cDNA library. The sequence contained 2010 base pairs and encoded a protein with 503 amino acids. The amino acid sequence shared greater identities with rat CYP3A18 (90%) and golden hamster...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Dai D,Bai R,Hodgson E,Rose RL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play an important role in myocardial tissue homeostasis; therefore, deterioration in mitochondrial function will eventually lead to cardiomyocyte and endothelial cell death and consequently cardiovascular dysfunction. Lithium (Li+ ) is an effective drug for bipolar disorder with known cardiotoxic side eff...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Salimi A,Gholamifar E,Naserzadeh P,Hosseini MJ,Pourahmad J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapid development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials are now being used for cancer treatment. Although studies on the application of silver nanoparticles in cancer treatment are burgeoning, few studies have investigated the toxicology mechanisms of autophagy in cancer cells under exposure to sublethal silver na...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Chen Y,Yang T,Chen S,Qi S,Zhang Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the effects of astaxanthin (AST) that belongs to carotenoid family and cadmium (Cd), which is an important heavy metal, on rat erythrocyte G6PD, 6PGD, GR, and TrxR enzyme activities in vivo and on rat erythrocyte 6PGD enzyme activity in vitro were studied. In in vitro studies, 6PGD enzyme was purified f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Bayramoğlu Akkoyun M,Bengü AŞ,Temel Y,Akkoyun HT,Ekin S,Ciftci M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraoxon, the active metabolite of parathion, can be detoxified through a noncatalytic pathway by carboxylesterases and a catalytic pathway by calcium-dependent A-esterases, producing p-nitrophenol as a common metabolite. The detoxication patterns of carboxylesterases and A-esterases were investigated in vitro in the ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Tang J,Chambers JE

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic implications of tamoxifen (TAM) used as preventive therapy of young premenopausal women with high risk of breast cancer is unknown. To unravel this problem, an animal model of long-term TAM administration to cycling young adult female rats was used to evaluate its effects in the liver. Body weight and fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Resende AD,Leal S,Batista-Pinto C,Garcez F,Sá SI

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of glutathione S-transferase (GST) is a crucial factor in determining the sensitivity of cells and organs in response to a variety of toxicants. In this study, we cloned the core nucleotide of alpha, kappa, mu, mGST, pi, rho, and theta-like GST genes from bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis). Their deriv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Li G,Xie P,Li H,Chen J,Hao L,Xiong Q

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulatory effect of taurine on 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA)-induced breast cancer in rats was studied. DMBA (25 mg/kg body weight) was administered to induce breast cancer in rats. Protein carbonyl levels, activities of membrane bound enzymes (Na(+) /K(+) ATPase, Ca(2+) ATPase, and Mg(2+) ATPase), phase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Vanitha MK,Baskaran K,Periyasamy K,Selvaraj S,Ilakkia A,Saravanan D,Venkateswari R,Revathi Mani B,Anandakumar P,Sakthisekaran D

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxane-based chemotherapy drugs (cabazitaxel, docetaxel, and paclitaxel) are microtubule inhibitors, which are effectively and frequently used to treat metastatic prostate cancer (PCa). Among these, cabazitaxel is offered as a new therapeutic option for patients with metastatic castration-resistant PC as that are resi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Cevik O,Acidereli H,Turut FA,Yildirim S,Acilan C

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebselen (EB, compound 1) is an investigational organoselenium compound that reduces fungal growth, in part, through inhibition of the fungal plasma membrane H+ -ATPase (Pma1p). In the present study, the growth inhibitory activity of EB and of five structural analogs was assessed in a fluconazole (FLU)-resistant strain...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Orie NN,Warren AR,Basaric J,Lau-Cam C,Piętka-Ottlik M,Młochowski J,Billack B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ochratoxin A (OTA) is nephrotoxic, immunosuppressive, and teratogenic in many species and is a possible human carcinogen. In this study, we investigated the OTA pollution situations of grains in northern China and the signaling pathway that mediated OTA-induced apoptosis in human tubular kidney cells (HKCs). Samples o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Li Z,Zhang X,Cui J,Kang W

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxicogenomics is a term that represents the merging of toxicology with novel genomics techniques. Data generated in the new-age era of toxicology is relatively complex, requires new bioinformatics tools for adequate interpretation, and allows for the rapid generation of testable hypotheses. Hazard identification and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Hamadeh HK,Bushel P,Paules R,Afshari CA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colchicine (COL) shows strong anticancer activity but due to its toxicity towards normal cells its wider application is limited. To address this issue, a library of 17 novel COL derivatives, namely N-carbamates of N-deacetyl-4-(bromo/chloro/iodo)thiocolchicine, has been tested against two types of primary cancer cells...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Urbaniak A,Jousheghany F,Piña-Oviedo S,Yuan Y,Majcher-Uchańska U,Klejborowska G,Moorjani A,Monzavi-Karbassi B,Huczyński A,Chambers TC

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative shock and production of reactive oxygen species are known to play a major role in situations leading to neuron degeneration, but the precise mechanisms responsible for cell degeneration remain uncertain. In the present article, we have studied in PC 12 cells the effect of cumene hydroxyperoxide on both cell ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Vimard F,Saucet M,Nicole O,Feuilloley M,Duval D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to assess superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), paraoxonase (PON1), glutathione reductase (GR), and catalase (CAT) activities ratio and their relationship with DNA oxidative damage in rats treated with cisplatin (3 mg/kg bwt/day) in the presence and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Harisa GI

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M1 macrophages serve one edge as proinflammatory and M2 macrophages serve the other edge as an anti-inflammatory macrophage. It appears that a related "switch" in macrophage morphology may also happen in the course of atherosclerosis, which has not yet been elucidated. An atherogenic diet (AD) was given to rats, and i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Binesh A,Devaraj SN,Devaraj H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoform CYP2C11 is specifically expressed in the liver of adult male rats, and 5alpha-reductase is specifically expressed in the liver of the adult female rats. The sexually dimorphic expressions of these hepatic enzymes are regulated by the sex-dependent profiles of the circulating growth ho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Ishizuka M,Yonemoto J,Zaha H,Tohyama C,Sone H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The toxicities of 4 short-chain alcohols--namely methanol, ethanol, iso-propanol and iso-butanol--were compared in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using several different ecotoxicological endpoints. Range-finding tests were conducted using transgenic PC161 worms carrying a double reporter construct (GFP plus lacZ)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Thompson G,de Pomerai DI

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, microRNA-4709 (miR-4709) has not been studied in colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) on the basis of experiments. In our study, we aimed to investigate the biological roles and clinical significance of miR-4709 in COAD. The expression difference between miR-4709 and NR3C2 was measured based on The Cancer Genome Atlas...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Yu M,Yu HL,Li QH,Zhang L,Chen YX

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endotoxin exposure elicits various responses in mammals including the acute phase response that has been shown to cause changes in the activity of several forms of cytochrome P450s and other enzymes. Therefore, the hepatic conjugating enzyme, glutathione S-transferase (GST), and UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UDPGT), th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Watson AM,Warren G,Howard G,Shedlofsky SI,Blouin RA

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Netrin-1 has been found to protect kidneys from ischemia/reperfusion injury. In this study, we aimed to address whether the protective effects were mediated through suppression of oxidative stress and neuropeptide Y. Compared to sham-operated animals, animals after ischemia/reperfusion showed marked kidney damage and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Liu L,Xie S,Liao X,Zhang L,Zhong L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese is an essential trace element found in many enzymes. As it is the case of many essential trace elements, excessive level of manganese is toxic. It has been proven that excessive manganese could cause heart problems. In order to understand the mechanism of manganese toxicity in the heart, the effects of manga...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Yang H,Wang T,Li J,Gu L,Zheng X

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the antigenotoxic potential of two newly synthesized β-aminoketones against N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and 9-aminoacridine (9-AA)-induced mutagenesis. The mutant bacterial tester strains were MNNG-sensitive Escherichia coli WP2 uvrA and 9-AA-sensitive Salmonella ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Ozturkcan SA,Turhan K,Turgut Z,Karadayi M,Gulluce M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of novel indenopyrazole derivatives 2a-j and 3a-j were synthesized from the reaction of 1-(4-(hydroxy(1-oxo-1,3-dihydro-2 H-inden-2-ylidene)methyl)phenyl)-3-phenylurea derivatives 1a-j with hydrazine and phenylhydrazine, respectively. The obtained novel indenopyrazoles ( 2a-j and 3a-j) were evaluated for anti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Gezegen H,Tutar U,Hepokur C,Ceylan M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeO2 NPs) are among the important nanoparticles that are extensively utilized in cosmetics, automotive industries, ultraviolet (UV) filtration, gas sensors, and pharmaceutical products. In this study, CeO2 NPs were synthesized using an aqueous extract of Ziziphus jujube fruit. The synthesiz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology

authors： Miri A,Akbarpour Birjandi S,Sarani M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00