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HEPATOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF CYPROTERONE ACETATE IN MICE; MINIMAL ROLE OF METALLOTHIONEIN 醋酸环丙孕酮对小鼠肝保护作用的研究金属硫蛋白的作用最小
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800317283680
H. Shimada, T. Adachi, M. Waalkes
{"title":"HEPATOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF CYPROTERONE ACETATE IN MICE; MINIMAL ROLE OF METALLOTHIONEIN","authors":"H. Shimada, T. Adachi, M. Waalkes","doi":"10.1080/107691800317283680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800317283680","url":null,"abstract":"Previously, we reported that the antiandrogen cyproterone acetate (CA) modifies cadmium (Cd) distribution and metallothionein (MT) induction in mice given a non-toxic dose of Cd (10 w mol Cd/kg, sc). We have also observed that CA pretreatment will reduce Cd toxicity in in vitro systems. Thus, since the liver is a primary target of acute Cd toxicity, the effects of CA pretreatment on the acute hepatotoxicity of Cd in vivo were studied in male C57 mice. Mice were pretreated with CA (10 mg/kg, sc, at - 48, - 24, and 0 h) prior to Cd (35 or 45 w mol Cd/kg, at 0 h). Cd alone (35 or 45 w mol Cd/kg) induced significant increases in serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activity, indicative of hepatotoxicity, 24 h after injection. However, CA pretreatment either prevented (at 35 w mol Cd/kg) or significantly reduced (at 45 w mol Cd/kg) Cd-induced increases in serum ALT. Based on serum creatinine levels, Cd alone was not acutely nephrotoxic. Thus, CA pretreatment substantially reduced the hepatotoxic effects of Cd. CA pretreatment had no effect on hepatic Cd levels 24 h after Cd exposure. The hepatic levels of zinc, a metal known to antagonize Cd toxicity, were modestly altered by CA pretreatment, but not in a consistent fashion. Cd alone markedly increased hepatic MT, a metal-binding protein often associated with tolerance to Cd, 24 h after exposure. CA pretreatment alone did not alter hepatic MT levels and pretreatment with CA before Cd did not alter hepatic levels of MT compared to Cd alone 24 h after injection of the metal. To further examine the tolerance to Cd induced by CA, the effects of CA pretreatment on hepatic Cd levels at early stages were investigated. Hepatic Cd levels were significantly decreased by CA pretreatment 8 h after Cd treatment and returned to control levels by 16 h. These results indicate that CA can substantially reduce the hepatotoxic effects of Cd in C57 mice without activating MT synthesis. The early decreases in liver Cd content may be critical to decreasing the adverse effect of Cd in the liver. Thus, it appears CA induces tolerance to Cd through altered biokinetics and in a manner not involving the MT system.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85173516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
SUBCHRONIC REPEATED VAPOR EXPOSURE TOXICITY OF 5-VINYL-2-NORBORNENE 5-乙烯基-2-降冰片烯的亚慢性反复蒸汽暴露毒性
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800317283653
B. Ballantyne, J. C. Norris, P. Losco
{"title":"SUBCHRONIC REPEATED VAPOR EXPOSURE TOXICITY OF 5-VINYL-2-NORBORNENE","authors":"B. Ballantyne, J. C. Norris, P. Losco","doi":"10.1080/107691800317283653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800317283653","url":null,"abstract":"5-Vinyl-2-norbornene (VNB: CAS Number 3048-64-4) is an industrial chemical with a potential for exposure to the vapor. To determine any hazards from repeated exposure to the vapor a subchronic exposure study was conducted in which male and female Sprague Dawley rats were exposed to VNB vapor for 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for 14 weeks at mean concentrations of 0, 5, 25.5, and 152 ppm. Subgroups at 0 and 152 ppm were kept for a 4-week post-exposure recovery period. This study was preceeded by a 9-day repeated vapor study in which male and female rats were exposed to mean concentrations of 50, 147, and 352 ppm. In both the 9-day and subchronic studies there were no significant exposure-related effects with respect to signs, mortality, body weights, serum chemistry, or urinalysis. The only hematological effect was an increase in the mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin in male rats of the 147 and 352 ppm groups. There were exposure-related increases in liver weights with the 9-day study, but no evidence for liver pathology based on serum chemistry and histology. Liver weights were also increased for males of the 152 ppm group in the subchronic study. Kidney weights were increased in an exposure concentration-related manner for the males of the 9-day study, and for 152 ppm males of the subchronic study. The only histopathological finding was proximal renal tubular hyaline droplet nephropathy in male rats. In the 9-day study, this was present in an exposure concentration-related manner.At 150 and 350 ppm this resulted in scattered areas of proximal tubular necrosis, but there was no serum chemistry or urinalysis evidence for renal dysfunction. At the end of the subchronic exposure period, minimal to mild hyaline droplet nephropathy was seen at 25.5 and 152 ppm, but not at 5 ppm, in the male rats. At the end of the 4-week recovery period, no hyaline droplet nephropathy was seen at any exposure concentration. An association of the nephropathy with f 2u -globulin was demonstrated for male rats of the 9-day study.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74167789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
TOXIC MECHANISM OF CADMIUM EXPOSURE ON CARDIAC TISSUE 镉对心脏组织的毒性机制
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800317283662
E. Novelli, S. Marques, J. A. Almeida, Y. S. Diniz, L. Faine, B. Ribas
{"title":"TOXIC MECHANISM OF CADMIUM EXPOSURE ON CARDIAC TISSUE","authors":"E. Novelli, S. Marques, J. A. Almeida, Y. S. Diniz, L. Faine, B. Ribas","doi":"10.1080/107691800317283662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800317283662","url":null,"abstract":"The presence of toxic substances in the workplace environment requires systematic evaluation of exposure and health status in exposed subjects. Cadmium is a highly toxic element found in water. Although free mediated cellular damage and reactive oxygen species (ROS), had been theorized as contributing to the cadmium mechanism of toxicity, and recent investigations have established that free radicals may be important contributors to cardiac dysfunction, there is little information on the effect of cadmium exposure on markers of oxidative stress in cardiac tissue. Cadmium exposure (Cd 2+ - 100 mg/l - from CdCl 2 ) in drinking water, during 15 days, significantly increased lipoperoxide and decreased the activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase. No alterations were observed in catalase activity in heart of rats with cadmium exposure. We also observed decreased glycogen and glucose concentration and increased total lipid content in cardiac tissue of rats with cadmium exposure. The decreased activities of alanine transaminase and aspartate transaminase reflected decreased metabolic protein degradation, and increased lactate dehydrogenase activity was related with increases in capacity of glycolysis. Since the metabolic pathways were altered by cadmium exposure, we can conclude that Cd 2+ exposure induced ROS and initiate some series of events that occur in the heart and resulted in metabolic pathways alterations.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76850585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 16
ANALYTICAL METHODS TO DETECT THE AUTOOXIDATION OF ADRENOLUTIN AS A STEP IN CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM 儿茶酚胺代谢过程中肾上腺素自氧化的检测方法
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800317283699
S. Baskin, George S Behonick, R. J. Schafer, M. Novak, C. Arroyo
{"title":"ANALYTICAL METHODS TO DETECT THE AUTOOXIDATION OF ADRENOLUTIN AS A STEP IN CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM","authors":"S. Baskin, George S Behonick, R. J. Schafer, M. Novak, C. Arroyo","doi":"10.1080/107691800317283699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800317283699","url":null,"abstract":"The acute hemodynamic effects of organophosphate (OP) intoxication include positive chronotropic and inotropic changes along with increases in intraventricular pressure and coronary blood flow. These observations are consistent with an enhanced sympathetic tone that correlates neurogenic cardiomyopathy to adrenergic overactivity and subsequent, focal catecholamine (CA) release and cellular oxidative stress. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the cardiotoxicity associated with elevated CA concentrations. However, it is suggested that the oxidative metabolites of CA's, rather than (or in addition to) the parent CA's per se, may initiate or be in part responsible for the cardiotoxicity. The chromatographic profile of adrenochrome (1) and adrenolutin (2) (Figure 1) are described in this study in an isocratic, reverse phase HPLC method using UV/VIS and electrochemical (EC) detection. The aqueous adrenochrome standard shows a retention time of 1.9 minutes under employed conditions. Furthermore, using a flow rate of 0.6 mL/min and a UV/VIS detector set at a wavelength of 490 nm, several chromatographic peaks were detected, indicative of different species after injection of the aqueous adrenolutin standard. A similar multiple peak chromatographic profile was observed with EC detection. We hypothesized from the literature and observed complexity of the chromatogram (i.e. multiple intermediate species of the adrenolutin) that adrenolutin is being autooxidized over time. Based upon EPR spin trapping, we found the generation of a carbon-centered radical at the C-2 position that will interact with oxygen to give an intermediate peroxy radical. This may be eventually transformed to 5,6-dihydroxy-1-methyl-2,3-indoledione. The production of these proposed carbon- and oxygen-centered radicals in the autooxidation of adrenolutin was confirmed by spin trapping experiments using the spin trap, f -phenyl N-tert-butyl nitrone (PBN). When adrenolutin is dissolved in water at neutral pH in the presence of PBN, two different EPR spectra of PBN adducts are obtained. One observed PBN adduct has hyperfine splitting constants (hfsc's) of a N = 1.54 mT, a g H = 0.40 mT, and a n H = 0.13 mT; the other observed PBN adduct H H has the following hfsc's a N = 1.50 mT and a g H = 0.33 mT. The detection of these H reactive intermediates during the continued autooxidation of adrenolutin may account for the biochemical toxicity of catecholamine metabolism. These methods may allow for the quantification and/or characterization of the cardiotoxicity observed after organophosphate (OP) intoxication.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76696312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
DETERMINATION OF THE PHOTOTOXICITY OF FENOFIBRIC ACID BY A SENSITIVE IN VITRO TEST ON POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELLS 非诺纤维酸对多形核细胞的光毒性测定
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800317283671
F. Vargas, G. Fraile, M. Velásquez
{"title":"DETERMINATION OF THE PHOTOTOXICITY OF FENOFIBRIC ACID BY A SENSITIVE IN VITRO TEST ON POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELLS","authors":"F. Vargas, G. Fraile, M. Velásquez","doi":"10.1080/107691800317283671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800317283671","url":null,"abstract":"By means of a sensitive chemiluminescence's method, toxicity of fenofibric acid was demonstrated on respiratory burst of UVA-irradiated peripheral blood polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs). Through this method, it was possible detect such phototoxic effect at a minor concentration of fenofibric acid as compared with those previously reported in photohemolysis test. This effect was not related with losses of cell viability because PMNs did not lose its capabilities for excluding the trypan blue dye, when irradiated in presence of drug. In order to explain the results obtained in presence of scavengers of different reactive oxygen species, it was proposed a singlet oxygen-mediated (type II) mechanism of photosensitization and/or through formation of toxic photoproducts.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84207680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
SUPPLEMENTARY EFFECT OF a-TOCOPHEROL SUCCINATE (VITAMIN E) ON SODIUM ARSENITE-INDUCED OVARIAN STEROIDOGENIC FUNCTION AND PLASMA LEVELS OF GONADOTROPHINS IN MATURE ALBINO RATS 琥珀酸a-生育酚(维生素E)对亚砷酸钠诱导的成熟白化大鼠卵巢类固醇生成功能和血浆促性腺激素水平的补充作用
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800300119356
S. Chattopadhyay, M. Misro, S. Pal, J. Debnath, D. Ghosh
{"title":"SUPPLEMENTARY EFFECT OF a-TOCOPHEROL SUCCINATE (VITAMIN E) ON SODIUM ARSENITE-INDUCED OVARIAN STEROIDOGENIC FUNCTION AND PLASMA LEVELS OF GONADOTROPHINS IN MATURE ALBINO RATS","authors":"S. Chattopadhyay, M. Misro, S. Pal, J. Debnath, D. Ghosh","doi":"10.1080/107691800300119356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800300119356","url":null,"abstract":"Ovarian, uterine, vaginal weights, and ovarian steroidogenic enzyme activities, along with plasma levels of gonadotrophins and estrogen, were measured in diestrous phase of mature Wistar-strain albino rats following subchronic treatment with Na-arsenite at the dose available in drinking water found in wide areas of West Bengal in India. A signiŽcant reduction in plasma levels of LH, FSH, and estradiol, with signiŽcant diminution in the activities of 15-3 ̄ , 17 ̄-HSD followed by a low level of ovarian and uterine peroxidase activity, were observed in Na-arsenite–treated rats at 0.4 ppm/rat/day for 28 days (7 estrous cycles) in comparison to control. This duration of treatment also exhibited weight loss of the above-mentioned organs, with prolonged diestrous phase followed by a high accumulation of arsenic in plasma and in those organs in contrast to controls. Supplementation of ®-tocopherol succinate at 200 mg/kg body weight/rat/day for 28 days with arsenic treatment minimized the gonadal weight loss signiŽcantly and restored the activities of ovarian steroidogenic enzymes as well as ovarian and uterine peroxidase at control level. Not only that, this vitamin also elevated the plasma levels of LH, FSH, and estradiol compared with arsenic-treated rats. Vaginal smear showed normal cyclic changes of estrous in ®-tocopherol succinate supplemented arsenic-treated rats, though arsenic levels in plasma and gonadal tissue remained unaltered in comparison to arsenic-treated rats. Thus, our experiments indicate the signiŽcant protective action of ®-tocopherol succinate on the above-mentioned parameters in arsenic-treated rats.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76351502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
TOXIC MECHANISM OF NICKEL EXPOSURE ON CARDIAC TISSUE 镍暴露对心脏组织的毒性机制
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800300119374
E. Novelli, Y. S. Diniz, T. Machado, V. Proença, T. Tibiriçá, L. Faine, B. Ribas, J. A. Almeida
{"title":"TOXIC MECHANISM OF NICKEL EXPOSURE ON CARDIAC TISSUE","authors":"E. Novelli, Y. S. Diniz, T. Machado, V. Proença, T. Tibiriçá, L. Faine, B. Ribas, J. A. Almeida","doi":"10.1080/107691800300119374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800300119374","url":null,"abstract":"The incidence of cardiovascular disease has increased in the general population, and cardiac damage is indicated as one important cause of mortality. In addition, pollution and metal exposure have increased in recent years. For this reason, toxic effects of metals, such as nickel, and the irrelation to cardiac damage should be urgently established. Although free radical-mediated cellular damage and reactive oxygen species have been theorized as contributing to the nickel mechanism of toxicity, recent investigations have established that free radicals may be important contributors to cardiac dysfunction. However,there is little information on the effect of nickel exposure on markers of oxidative stress in cardiac tissue. Nickel exposure (Ni2+ 100 mg L-1 from NiSO4) significantly increased lipoperoxide and total lipid concentrations in cardiac tissue. We also observed increased serum levels of cholesterol(59%), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH-64%), and alanine transaminase (ALT-30%) in study animals. The biochemical parameters recovered to the control values with tocopherol intake (0.2 mg 200 g-1). Vitamin E alone significantly decreased the lipoperoxide concentration and increased superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities in the heart. Since no alterations were observed in catalase and GSH-Px activities by nickel exposure while SOD activities were decreased, we conclude that superoxide radical (O2 -) generated by nickel exposure is of primary importance in the pathogenesis of cardiac damage. Tocopherol, by its antioxidant activity, decreased the toxic effects of nickel exposure on heart of rats.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83761902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 13
2,4-PENTANEDIONE: EVALUATION OF THE GENOTOXIC POTENTIAL IN VITRO AND IN VIVO 2,4-戊二酮:体外和体内遗传毒性潜力的评价
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/107691800300119365
J. S. Vergnes, B. Ballantyne
{"title":"2,4-PENTANEDIONE: EVALUATION OF THE GENOTOXIC POTENTIAL IN VITRO AND IN VIVO","authors":"J. S. Vergnes, B. Ballantyne","doi":"10.1080/107691800300119365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/107691800300119365","url":null,"abstract":"The genotoxic potential of 2,4-pentanedione (2,4-PD; CAS No. 123-54-6) was assessed using a battery of in vitro and in vivo tests. In vitro studies showed no mutagenic activity in a Salmonella typhimurium reverse mutation test or in a Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) forward gene mutation test (HGPRT locus), either in the absence or in the presence of an Aroclor 1245-induced rat liver S9 metabolic activation system. Increased frequencies of sister chromatid exchanges in cultured CHO cells were observed both in the absence and in the presence of S9 activation. 2,4-PD was highly clastogenic to CHO cells in vitro in the absence, but not in the presence, of S9. 2,4-PD produced significant, doserelated increases in the incidence of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes (PCE) in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of Swiss Webster mice after a single intraperitoneal injection. However, there was no significant induction of micronuclei in the bone marrow of Sprague Dawley® rats dosed with 2,4-PD by a single intraperitoneal injection. When rats and mice were exposed to 2,4-PD vapor for 6 hr/day for 5 consecutive days at target concentrations up to 800 ppm, there were no significant exposure-related increases in the incidences of chromosomal aberrations or micronucleated PCE in bone marrow samples taken 24 hr after the 5th day of exposure in either species.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87942248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE ACTIVITY IN AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII IN THE DISPOSITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICANTS EXEMPLIFIED BY FENTON REAGENT AND CRUDE OIL 以fenton试剂和原油为例的环境毒物处理中固氮菌的超氧化物歧化酶活性
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/10769180052008896
I. N. Onwurah, M. Eze
{"title":"SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE ACTIVITY IN AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII IN THE DISPOSITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICANTS EXEMPLIFIED BY FENTON REAGENT AND CRUDE OIL","authors":"I. N. Onwurah, M. Eze","doi":"10.1080/10769180052008896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10769180052008896","url":null,"abstract":"The role of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the survival of diazotrophic bacteria exemplified by Azotobacter vinelandii in the disposition of crude oil-contaminated environment was investigated. The extent of survival, ranging between 57-64% relative to control, was based on colony-forming units of Azotobacter inocula taken from media contaminated with crude oil (0.5-1.5%, w/v), after plating on nutrient agar. The specific activity of superoxide dismutase in the crude protein extracts from cells harvested from oil-contaminated medium and Fenton reagent-containing mediumin creased by 1.25 and 1.28-fold,respectively, relative to control. These results suggest an induction in SOD enzyme protein as a defense mechanism to protect the exposed bacterial cells from the free radicals/reactive oxygen species generated during the oxidation (co-metabolism) of the petroleum hydrocarbons.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72838331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
EVALUATION OF HEMATOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN MICE EXPOSED TO SUBLETHAL AND SUBCHRONIC DOSES OF DIMETHOATE 暴露于亚致死和亚慢性剂量乐果的小鼠血液学和免疫学参数的评价
Toxic substance mechanisms Pub Date : 2000-04-01 DOI: 10.1080/10769180052008887
A. Bhatia, J. Kaur
{"title":"EVALUATION OF HEMATOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN MICE EXPOSED TO SUBLETHAL AND SUBCHRONIC DOSES OF DIMETHOATE","authors":"A. Bhatia, J. Kaur","doi":"10.1080/10769180052008887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10769180052008887","url":null,"abstract":"Effects of sublethal and subchronic doses of dimethoate (DM), an organophosphorus pesticide, have been studied on hematological and immunological parameters in mice. The results revealed that DM-treated mice showed significant increase in red blood cells (RBC), white blood cells, percent monocytes, and percent basophils, whereas the percent neutrophils was significantly decreased.The antibody titres were higher on day 4 postantigen(sheep RBC/bovine serum albumin [BSA]) inoculation, but suppressed on day 7 and 11 postantigen inoculation in DM-treated mice. However, the three cell-mediated immune parameters-leukocyte migration inhibition (LMI), leukocyte adherence inhibition (LAI), and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction-were invariably depressed in DM-treated BSA-immunized mice, whereas the percent LMI and LAI were lower and NBT was higher in the DM-treated SRBC-immunized mice. Our results show that exposure to DM suppresses humoral and cell-mediated immune response, but its effect on macrophage function varies with the immunizing antigen.","PeriodicalId":87425,"journal":{"name":"Toxic substance mechanisms","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73597414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
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