abstract：:A single intraperitoneal injection of cadmium chloride (CdCl2, 0.32 mg/kg body weight) was administered to 15 adult female palm squirrels (Funambulus pennanti (Wroughton] and the hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), noradrenaline (NA) and dopamine (DA) levels were quantified on the 1st, 7th and 40th day. 5-HT leve...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Shrivastava VK,Sathyanesan AG

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cultures of rat hepatocytes were exposed to 3 or 30 microM stable cadmium (Cd) in the presence or absence of 1.8 or 3.6 mM calcium (Ca). The presence of Ca significantly reduced the efflux of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) from cells regardless of Cd concentration or exposure time. During a 3-h time interval, the...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Sorensen EM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sublethal exposure to the organochlorine pesticide, dieldrin, decreased the T-cell immune response in mice. Indeed, a transient inhibition of the mixed lymphocyte reactivity (MLR) was noted at 7 days after intraperitoneal exposure to 0.6 LD50 dieldrin. The present study was undertaken to further investigate the effect...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hugo P,Bernier J,Krzystyniak K,Potworowski EF,Fournier M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A concern among hospital personnel is their exposure to mutagenic drugs and in the incidental exposures that could occur in caring for the patients. In a recent published study the mutagenicity of urine from patients administered antineoplastic drugs was determined and techniques were developed to chemically inactivat...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Monteith DK,Connor TH,Benvenuto JA,Fairchild EJ,Theiss JC

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of T-2 toxin on the in vitro mitogen responses and the antibody-producing ability of human peripheral blood lymphocytes were evaluated. T-2 toxin inhibited the mitogen response to concanavalin A (ConA) at a lower concentration (1.6 ng/ml) as compared to phytohemagglutinin (2.4 ng/ml) and pokeweed mitogen (...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Tomar RS,Blakley BR,De Coteau WE

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Swiss OF1 mice received a single oral dose of either 80 mg/kg hexachloro-1,3-butadiene (HCBD) or 40 mg/kg methyl mercury (MeHg). Examination of cryostat kidney sections stained for alkaline phosphatase (APP) revealed damage to about 50% of the proximal tubules after 8 h. Treatment with the organic anion transport...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Ban M,de Céaurriz J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 20 female albino rats was exposed to mosquito coil smoke, 8 h a day, 6 days per week, for 60 days. An additional group receiving air exposure served as control. The smoke-exposed animals had a lower body weight than the controls. Smoke-induced histopathological lesions, including an inflammation of the trac...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Liu WK,Wong MH

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amitriptyline hydrochloride, an antidepressant drug, was tested in mice for mutagenic effects in the somatic cells by the micronucleus test and in the germ cells by the air drying technique of Evans et al. Mice were treated orally with the drug at a dose of 70, 140 and 210 mg/kg body weight. The results indicate that ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Chowdary PS,Rao MS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumotoxicity and lethality resulting from administration of methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT) and its 2 major metabolites in rats were compared. Following i.p. injection, MMT was found to have an LD50 value of 12.1 mg/kg. Neither of the metabolites appeared to have significant acute toxicity even wh...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Cox DN,Traiger GJ,Jacober SP,Hanzlik RP

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated, perfused and ventilated guinea-pig lungs were exposed for 10 min to acid (sulphuric + nitric acid) aerosol mimicking acid rain at pH 4.5 or 2.5, as well as to a control distilled water aerosol (pH 6.0-6.5). Lung perfusing solution was recovered and thromboxane (TX) B2 and leukotriene (LT) B4 were measured by...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Preziosi P,Ciabattoni G

更新日期：1987-11-01 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 have designed a low-cost, compact, head-only exposure system which is easy to use and allows exposure of up to 8 or 16 small rodents depending on the chamber used with the system. Animals are exposed without anesthesia or extreme restraint. Deflection tubes at the chamber inlet and outlet serve to provide turbulent...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Francovitch RJ,Deal DL,Tayyeb MI,Wolpert RL,Boger JR 3rd,Valentini JE,Menzel DB

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diazinon, in acute doses (40 mg/kg, i.p.) in rats produced tremors and convulsions with lactic acidosis which was accompanied by depletion of glycogen and activation of glycogen phosphorylase activity in triceps and diaphragm muscles, 2 h after its administration. Prevention of convulsions with phenobarbitone administ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Husain K,Mirza MA,Matin MA

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partially purified toxin fraction and lantadene A were obtained from Lantana camara L. leaves by batch extraction, column chromatography and fractional crystallization. Toxicity was tested in guinea pigs. The total number of chemical entities in the partially purified toxin preparation was 7, the 2 major ones being ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Sharma OP,Dawra RK,Makkar HP

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of endotoxin pretreatment (1 mg/kg body weight, i.p., once daily for 2 days) on the gastric mucosal damage induced by aspirin, phenylbutazone and reserpine has been studied in albino rats. When given alone, endotoxin did not produce any visibly discernible gastric lesions. It produced a significant augmenta...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Tariq M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single doses of primaquine did not produce methemoglobinemia in beagle bitches. Repeated daily administration for 12 days produced a gradually rising level of methemoglobin over that time period, unaccompanied by depletion of erythrocytic reduced glutathione. Primaquine was mutagenic in the Ames test in Salmonella typ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Marrs TC,Bright JE,Morris BC

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats surviving various single dose of the organophosphorus anticholinesterase nerve agents Soman and Sarin were examined by light microscopy at intervals up to 35 days post-exposure. Brain lesions, identical to those that have been reported elsewhere were present, as well as a previously unreported finding associated ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Singer AW,Jaax NK,Graham JS,McLeod CG Jr

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of dichlorophenoxyacetic acid on the transport of two non-metabolizable amino acids, 2-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB) and cycloleucine (CL) was studied in chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. The herbicide did not exert any direct effect on the AIB transport. However, when the pesticide was in contact with the ce...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Bergesse JR,Rivarola VA,Balegno HF

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male C57B1/6N mice, 8-10 weeks old were given a single oral dose of 0, 1.0 or 3.0 mg/kg body weight of trimethyltin hydroxide (TMT). Levels of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity were measured in several brain areas, 1, 2 and 7 days later. The lower dose of TMT produced a decrease of ODC in the caudate nucleus and ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Ali SF,Newport GD,Slikker W Jr,Bondy SC

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart rate (HR) and body core temperature (Tco) were monitored in unanesthetized, unrestrained adult Sprague-Dawley rats following intraperitoneal administration of 0, 10, 30, or 60 mg/kg of the pesticide chlordimeform (CDM). Significant non-dose-related decreases were observed in both HR and Tco in all treated groups...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Watkinson WP,Gordon CJ

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative deposition of inhaled heterodisperse particles of the size of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS, mass median aerodynamic diameter 0.2 micron, geometric standard deviation 1.5) is about the same in the tracheobronchial tree and is lower in the pulmonary region of the rat than in the same regions of humans. ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Oberdörster G,Pott F

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality control studies on cotinine measurements following low level environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure are rare. The exposure to ETS was controlled and systematically changed in a series of experiments in a climatic chamber. Healthy nonsmoking volunteers were exposed to ETS simultaneously. The duration and le...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Letzel H,Fischer-Brandies A,Johnson LC,Uberla K,Biber A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:20 non-smokers on a defined diet low in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in an unventilated room for 8 h. The urinary mutagenicity in the 24-h urine samples as tested with the Salmonella (TA98) microsome assay did not significantly increase after exposure to eith...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Scherer G,Westphal K,Biber A,Hoepfner I,Adlkofer F

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro N-methylating capability of rabbit tissue cytosolic preparations, utilizing S-adenosyl-L-[methyl-3H]methionine as methyl donor, is described. Dialysed preparations from the lung, liver and kidney are capable of N-methylating 3- and 4-phenylpyridines and 3,3'- and 4,4'-bispyridyls; the corresponding 2-subs...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Godin CS,Crooks PA,Damani LA

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated urinary trehalase activity was observed in the inhabitants of the Jinzu River basin. Urinary trehalase activity was correlated with other urinalysis components, such as beta 2-microglobulin, glucose, amino nitrogen, and cadmium, of which a high level was observed in cadmium-polluted areas as compared with the...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Nakano M,Aoshima K,Katoh T,Teranishi H,Kasuya M

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumotoxicity of butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) applied to the skin of CD-1 mice was investigated and compared with that of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA). To 6 groups of 10 male mice and 10 female mice 0.1 ml of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) solutions containing 0, 5, 10, 20, or 30 mg of BHT or 30 mg of BHA were topicall...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Miyakawa Y,Takahashi M,Furukawa F,Toyoda K,Sato H,Hayashi Y

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlordimeform (Cdf) is readily absorbed through the skin of pesticide applicators. It also enters the body when breathed into the lungs. Cdf can be found in the urine of workers who handle or are involved in applying pesticide products which contain the chemical, even when they are wearing special protective clothing ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Maddy KT,Knaak JB,Gibbons DB

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of health survey and biological monitoring in pesticide formulators exposed to a combination of pesticides, an organophosphorus (OP) insecticide (phorate) and a persistent chlorinated insecticide (technical hexachlorocyclohexane; HCH; BHC) are reported. Exposure of 160 workers to a combination of pesticides (m...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Kashyap SK

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cultures of rat hepatocytes were exposed to various concentrations of L-asparaginase derived from Escherichia Coli. Protein synthesis was inhibited by about 33% and cellular glutamine was reduced proportionally to the enzyme concentration. However, protein synthesis was inhibited only by amounts of enzyme able...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Villa P,Corada M,Bartosek I

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic feeding of male Wistar rats with food containing hexachlorobenzene (HCB) at 17.5 mmol/kg induced elevation of serum amino-transferases and bilirubin content, increase of microsomal cytochrome P-450 concentration, and decrease of 5'-nucleotidase, K+,Na+- and Mg2+-adenosine triphosphatase activities in liver pla...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Nikolaev V,Naydenova E,Kerimova M,Dimov S,Ivanov E

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sister-chromatid exchanges (SCEs) were analyzed from peripheral lymphocyte cultures of 8 men and 16 women who had been exposed to environmental cadmium (Cd), and 6 controls. Average Cd concentrations in blood of the Cd-polluted group were 8.9 micrograms/l for men and 10.0 micrograms/l for women. These were no signific...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Nogawa K,Tsuritani I,Yamada Y,Kido T,Honda R,Ishizaki M,Kurihara T

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of linolic acid hydroperoxides (product A) and secondary oxidative products of product A (product B), were examined in an in vivo mid-term test for hepatocarcinogens or hepatopromoters in rats. The number of placental type of glutathione S-transferase (GST-P)-positive foci of the liver was significantly re...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hirose M,Thamavit W,Asamoto M,Osawa T,Ito N

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrazine (Hz) mutagenicity was observed in a test using Escherichia coli B/r strain, WP2 uvrA and was enhanced by the addition of rat liver microsomal fraction containing a generating system, while the enhanced mutagenicity was diminished by the addition of metyrapone to the microsome-free levels. On the other hand, ...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Noda A,Ishizawa M,Ohno K,Sendo T,Noda H

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sorbic acid alone and in combination with sodium nitrite has been studied on bone marrow chromosomes of mice following 30 days oral treatment. Bone marrow of mice exposed to sorbic acid (15 mg/kg) and sorbic acid nitrite (7.5-1 mg/kg) showed an increase in mitotic index indicating that the drugs had an e...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Banerjee TS,Giri AK

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE)-induced chewing movements, tremors, convulsions and hind limb abduction at doses of 50-85% LD50 in rats were monitored in order to determine whether the severity of these different signs would correlate with brain AChE levels and the time course of such a relationship. 30 min after subcutan...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Hoskins B,Fernando JC,Dulaney MD,Lim DK,Liu DD,Watanabe HK,Ho IK

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of [3H]aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) to the DNA, RNA and protein of liver after i.p. administration to rats with and without ethanol pretreatment was studied. The quantities of AFB1 binding to DNA and RNA were significantly increased by ethanol pretreatment but the formation of protein adducts was not affected. AFB1...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Toskulkao C,Glinsukon T

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In male Sprague-Dawley rats, motor and sensory conduction velocities (MNCV and SNCV) of the tail nerve decreased significantly as a result of oral administration of 400 and 200 mg/kg of 2,5 hexanedione (2,5-HD) once daily, 5 days a week for up to 7 and 15 weeks, respectively; and of whole-body exposure to 300 ppm of v...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Gagnaire F,Nicot T,Zissu D,Bonnet P,de Ceaurriz J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute effects of CHBrCl2 on microsomal lipid metabolism were studied in the liver of male Wistar rats administered a single oral dose (215 mg/kg). 3 h after administration, the modulation of phospholipid metabolism and the accumulation of triacylglycerol (TG) were noted in the microsomal membranes. A marked decrease i...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Koyama Y,Nakazawa Y

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of aflatoxin B1 on the uptake and incorporation of [3H]leucine and [3H]uridine and on phagocytosis of latex particles was studied using cultures of rat liver macrophages (Kuffer cells). Aflatoxin B1 inhibited the incorporation of both isotopes, but inhibition of uridine incorporation was greater than that o...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Mohapatra NK,Roberts JF

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that a single dose of amitraz, a formamidine pesticide, produces death in mice 2-5 days after dosing. To further examine this phenomenon, adult albino mice of both sexes were treated with either yohimbine (10 mg/kg, i.p.) or deionized water (6 ml/kg, i.p.), immediately before an injection of amitraz (600...

journal_title：Toxicology letters

authors： Moser VC,MacPhail RC

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00