Serdar Vanli, Firuze Kurtoglu, Beyza S. Alan, Gokhan Akcakavak, Ozgur Ozdemir
{"title":"Investigation of the effects of Theranekron and Sorafenib treatments on carcinogenesis, apoptosis and biochemical profile in hepatocellular carcinoma in rats","authors":"Serdar Vanli, Firuze Kurtoglu, Beyza S. Alan, Gokhan Akcakavak, Ozgur Ozdemir","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2024.2332909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2024.2332909","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to investigate the effects of Tarantula cubensis alcohol extract (TCAE, Theranekron) and Sorafenib (S) treatments on carcinogenesis, apoptosis and biochemical profile of rats with ...","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David R. Williamson, Emlyn J. Davies, Martin Ludvigsen, Bjørn Henrik Hansen
{"title":"Flow-through imaging and automated analysis of oil-exposed early stage Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)","authors":"David R. Williamson, Emlyn J. Davies, Martin Ludvigsen, Bjørn Henrik Hansen","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2024.2338389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2024.2338389","url":null,"abstract":"Toxicology studies in early fish life stages serve an important function in measuring the impact of potentially harmful substances, such as crude oil, on marine life. Morphometric analysis of larva...","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoyi Wang, Yueping Wang, Yawei Yuan, Long Wang, Dawei Zhang
{"title":"Isoflurane pretreatment protects against myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury via mediating lncRNA CASC15/miR-542-3p axis","authors":"Xiaoyi Wang, Yueping Wang, Yawei Yuan, Long Wang, Dawei Zhang","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2024.2327057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2024.2327057","url":null,"abstract":"The protective effect of isoflurane on cardiomyocyte ischemia/reperfusion injury (I/RI) was explored in hypoxia and reoxygenation (H/R) induced cardiomyocyte injury model. In terms of mechanism, th...","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alla P. Toropova, Andrey A. Toropov, Alessandra Roncaglioni, Emilio Benfenati
{"title":"Does the accounting of the local symmetry fragments in quasi-SMILES improve the predictive potential of the QSAR models of toxicity towards tadpoles?","authors":"Alla P. Toropova, Andrey A. Toropov, Alessandra Roncaglioni, Emilio Benfenati","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2024.2332617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2024.2332617","url":null,"abstract":"Models of toxicity to tadpoles have been developed as single parameters based on special descriptors which are sums of correlation weights, molecular features, and experimental conditions. This inf...","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug reactive metabolite-induced hepatotoxicity: A Comprehensive review","authors":"Piyush Mahajan, Mahesh Palkar, Ravindra Babu Pingili","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2024.2332613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2024.2332613","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, drug-induced liver toxicity (DILT) is one of the main contributing factors to severe liver disease. In the United States (US) alone, DILT is the cause of more than 50% of instances of acu...","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140165442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammed Majeed, Sarang Bani, Anjali Pandey, Muhamad Ibrahim A, Smitha Thazhathidath
{"title":"Subjective Biosafety Assessment of Bisdemethoxycurcumin from the rhizomes of Curcuma longa","authors":"Muhammed Majeed, Sarang Bani, Anjali Pandey, Muhamad Ibrahim A, Smitha Thazhathidath","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2024.2326000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2024.2326000","url":null,"abstract":"Curcuma longa, a plant native to the Indian subcontinent has a variety of biological activities. Curcumin is the most abundant and biologically active compound with many therapeutic properties. Dem...","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140071697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lijuan Zhu, Na Gao, Zhibo Zhu, Shiping Zhang, Xi Li, Jing Zhu
{"title":"Bioinformatics analysis of differentially expressed genes related to ischemia and hypoxia in spinal cord injury and construction of miRNA-mRNA or mRNA-transcription factor interaction network.","authors":"Lijuan Zhu, Na Gao, Zhibo Zhu, Shiping Zhang, Xi Li, Jing Zhu","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2023.2286363","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15376516.2023.2286363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Previous studies show that spinal cord ischemia and hypoxia is an important cause of spinal cord necrosis and neurological loss. Therefore, the study aimed to identify genes related to ischemia and hypoxia after spinal cord injury (SCI) and analyze their functions, regulatory mechanism, and potential in regulating immune infiltration.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The expression profiles of GSE5296, GSE47681, and GSE217797 were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Gene ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes analyses were performed to determine the function and pathway enrichment of ischemia- and hypoxia-related differentially expressed genes (IAHRDEGs) in SCI. LASSO model was constructed, and support vector machine analysis was used to identify key genes. The diagnostic values of key genes were evaluated using decision curve analysis and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. The interaction networks of miRNAs-IAHRDEGs and IAHRDEGs-transcription factors were predicted and constructed with the ENCORI database and Cytoscape software. CIBERSORT algorithm was utilized to analyze the correlation between key gene expression and immune cell infiltration.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were 27 IAHRDEGs identified to be significantly expressed in SCI at first. These genes were mostly significantly enriched in wound healing function and the pathway associated with lipid and atherosclerosis. Next, five key IAHRDEGs (Abca1, Casp1, Lpl, Procr, Tnfrsf1a) were identified and predicted to have diagnostic value. Moreover, the five key genes are closely related to immune cell infiltration.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Abca1, Casp1, Lpl, Procr, and Tnfrsf1a may promote the pathogenesis of ischemic or hypoxic SCI by regulating vascular damage, inflammation, and immune infiltration.</p>","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":" ","pages":"300-318"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138291834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug target genes and molecular mechanism investigation in isoflurane-induced anesthesia based on WGCNA and machine learning methods.","authors":"Honglei Yuan, Shengqiang Yang, Peng Han, Mingya Sun, Chao Zhou","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2023.2286619","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15376516.2023.2286619","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study sought to identify drug target genes and their associated molecular mechanisms during isoflurane-induced anesthesia in clinical applications.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Microarray data (ID: GSE64617; isoflurane-treated vs. normal samples) were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus database. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened and hub genes were investigated using weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA). Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) were constructed among the co-DEGs (common genes between DEGs and hub genes), followed by functional enrichment analyses. Then, three machine learning methods were used to reveal drug targets, followed by validation, nomogram analysis, and gene set enrichment analysis. Finally, an miRNA-target network was constructed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 686 DEGs were identified between the two groups-of which, 183 DEGs integrated with genes revealed by WCGNA were identified as co-genes. These genes, including contactin-associated protein 1 (CNTNAP1), are mainly involved in functions such as action potentials. PPI network analysis revealed three models, with the machine learning analysis exploring four drug target genes: A2H, FAM155B, SCARF2, and SDR16C5. ROC and nomogram analyses demonstrated the ideal diagnostic value of these target genes. Finally, miRNA-mRNA pairs were constructed based on the four mRNAs and associated 174 miRNAs.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>FA2H, FAM155B, SCARF2, and SDR16C5 may be novel drug target genes for isoflurane-induced anesthesia. CNTNAP1 may participate in the progression of isoflurane-induced anesthesia <i>via</i> its action potential function.</p>","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":" ","pages":"319-333"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138488515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kaja Tusiewicz, Olga Wachełko, Marcin Zawadzki, Paweł Szpot
{"title":"The stability of cyanide in human biological samples. A systematic review, meta-analysis and determination of cyanide (GC-QqQ-MS/MS) in an authentic casework 7 years after fatal intoxication.","authors":"Kaja Tusiewicz, Olga Wachełko, Marcin Zawadzki, Paweł Szpot","doi":"10.1080/15376516.2023.2280212","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15376516.2023.2280212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 30 year old man was found with no signs of life in front of the house. The cyanide concentration in blood and urine was determined five years after the man's death. What is more, a stability study was conducted for 730 days in an authentic casework blood sample. Sample preparation procedure included precipitation with methanol:water mixture, solid phase extraction (SPE) and derivatization with the use of PFB-Br (pentafluorobenzyl bromide). The sample was analyzed using GC-QqQ-MS/MS (gas chromatopraphy coupled with tandem mass spectrometry) isotope dilution method. Separation was done using a SH-RXI-5MS column (30 m x 0.25 mm, 0.25 µm). Detection of PFB-CN and PFB-<sup>13</sup>CN was achieved using a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer with an electron ionization (EI) ion source in multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. After 5 years from the man's death, cyanide concentration was: 1900 ng/mL in blood and 500 ng/mL in urine. Stability study performed in an authentic blood sample 6 and 7 years after the man's death revealed cyanide concentrations of 1898.2 ng/mL and 1618.7 ng/mL, respectively. While spectrophotometric and colorimetric methods recorded both decrease and increase in cyanide concentration over time, newer chromatographic methods mainly indicate a decrease. The studies presented in this paper seem to confirm this trend. However, in order to interpretate the results of cyanide concentration in biological material reliably, more research is still necessary.</p>","PeriodicalId":23177,"journal":{"name":"Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods","volume":" ","pages":"271-282"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138446295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}