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Effects of small doses of insecticides (Fenclorfos and Heptaclor) upon the thymus of chickens were followed. Treatment began at the age of 3 weeks and continued during 4 or 8 weeks. Doses used were: 1 ppm for Heptaclor and 1 ppm and 0.5 ppm for Fenclorfos. Total nucleic acid, total protein, RNA, DNA, and amino acid nitrogen contents were determined, as well as GOT and GPT activities and weight of the organ. Results are interpreted as being due to the action of insecticides on the hypothalamus-hypophysis-adrenals axis. They depend on the nature and dosis of insecticide, as well as on the duration of the treatment.
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PMID:[Thymus changes in chicks following treatment with small doses of insecticides]. 5 54

Ten male rhesus monkeys, each weighing 3.5 kg, were divided into four groups of 3, 3, 2, and 2, and were fed daily with 100 g pelleted food containing 300, 30, 3, and 0 ppm cadmium, respectively. Urine samples were collected every 2 weeks and blood samples every 4 weeks. One monkey each of the 300 and 30 ppm groups was autopsied for pathological examination and tissue cadmium determination at the week 24 of the experiment; the remaining 8 animals were killed after 55 weeks. The lowest exposed group (3 ppm) did not show any specific biological response to cadmium over a period of 55 weeks. In the 30 ppm group, no significant changes were observed for up to 24 weeks, although cadmium concentration in the renal cortex and urine at 24 weeks were 300 mug/g wet weight and 18 mug/l., respectively. Plasma urea nitrogen and urine protein (quantitative determination) increased after 30 and 36 weeks. At 55 weeks of the experiment, qualitative tests were negative for low molecular weight proteinuria and glycosuria, and the results remained normal for renal and liver function tests and blood analysis, although cadmium concentrations in the renal cortex of two monkeys were 460 and 730 mug/g wet weight and those in the liver were 110 and 160 mug/g wet weight, respectively. In the highest exposure group (300 ppm), urine cadmium increased to 250 mug/l. by 11 weeks, and urine retinol-binding protein, plasma GOT, GPT, and LDH increased after 12 weeks. Proteinuria (quantitative determination), glycosuria, aminoaciduria (panaminoaciduria), and erythrocytopenia were observed after 16 weeks, when urine cadmium was 500-900 mug/l. Hypohemoglobinopathy and proteinuria (qualitative determination) were observed after 20 and 24 weeks, while cadmium concentrations in the renal cortex and the liver were 760 and 430 mug/g wet weight at 24 weeks, respectively. Slightly depressed tubular reabsorption of phosphate, increased urine beta(2)-microglobulin, increased plasma urea nitrogen, and increased plasma alpha(2)-globulin fraction (electrophoresis) were observed between 28 and 30 weeks of the experiment. Creatinine clearance and plasma cholinesterase decreased after 47 and 54 weeks, respectively. Cadmium concentrations in the renal cortex and the liver of two monkeys at 55 weeks were 350 and 580 mug/g wet weight and 410 and 630 mug/g wet weight, respectively. Pathological examinations revealed denaturation, destruction, and regeneration of the epithelial cells in renal proximal tubules, but no pathological changes in osseous tissues. Critical cadmium concentration in the renal cortex was estimated to be 380 mug/g wet weight for low molecular weight proteinuria and 470 mug/g wet weight for proteinuria, glycosuria, and aminoaciduria. Critical concentration in the liver was also estimated to be 210 mug/g wet weight. The apparent biological half-time of cadmium in monkeys at autopsied stage was calculated to be 0.66, 6.4, 5.2, and 22.4 years for the 300, 30, 3, and 0 ppm groups, respectively.
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PMID:Effects of dietary cadmium on rhesus monkeys. 11 86

A marginal protein malnutrition model which makes allowances for the increasing nutritional requirements of the growing rat and the effects of dietary manipulation on diurnal rhythms, while still rigidly controlling the level of protein restriction, is reported. A predetermined, constantly increasing intake of four purified diets, providing approximately 40 to 160% of the National Research Council protein requirement for rats was fed to rats receiving a nitrogen-free energy source adlibitum. This standardization reduced within-group variation and allowed precise growth reproducibility. Biochemical parameters were measured at evenly spaced intervals throughout the day to remove diurnal differences from between-group comparisons. Growth, nitrogen balance, and 24-hour means of liver weight, DNA, RNA, protein, and glutamate-oxaloacetate and glutamate-pyruvate transaminases reflected protein intake. However, when growth was depressed 10, 30, or 60%, liver GPT/DNA was depressed 40, 49, or 67%, respectively. Hepatic GPT appears to be a sensitive and accurate indicator of marginal protein malnutrition.
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PMID:Hepatic transaminase in protein-restricted rats: development of a controlled model. 56 97

1. Adult rats were subjected to a brief period of diethyl ether anaesthesia and were given diets with 200 or 100 g casein/kg with or without arginine plus glycine supplementation in the post-anaesthesia period. Nitrogen retention was measured as well as liver protein content and liver and muscle transaminase activities (L-aspartate aminotransferase (GOT), (EC 2.6.1.1), and L-alanine aminotransferase (GPT)(EC 2.6.1.2). 2. Results demonstrated that anaesthesia-stressed rats consuming the high-protein diet with supplemental arginine and glycine retained twice as much N as did rats given the diet with 200 g casein/kg alone, for the first 5 d post-anaesthesia. 3. Anaesthesia-stressed animals consuming the diets with 100 g casein/kg with or without arginine plus glycine supplementation did not differ from each other in N retention. 4. Liver protein content increased after anaesthesia in rats given the high-protein diets; liver transaminase activity increased, whereas muscle transaminase activity decreased, in animals consuming the high protein diets. 5. Possible mechanisms to account for these results are discussed.
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PMID:Nitrogen retention in rats fed on diets enriched with arginine and glycine. 2. Effect of diethyl ether anaesthesia on N retention. 85 75

The experience gained with Estracyt, kindly supplied by AB LEO, Sweden, is reported. On the basis of former data in the literature we only used the drug in estrogen resistant and advanced cases. Estracyt (estramustine phosphate) is a nitrogen mustard derivative of the urethan type, attached to oestradiol-17-phosphate. In histologically verified cases, it was administered in daily doses of 300 mg intravenously for three weeks, followed by maintenance doses of 300 mg a week in tablets for three months. During treatment, liver and bone marrow function was checked systematically. The changes in morphological picture were studied by means of biopsies during and at the end of treatment. In agreement with the data in the literature a favourable effect was observed in estrogen resistant patients, with no toxic effect whatever on the bone marrow. At the same time GOT and GPT and BSP retention examinations demonstrated a hepatotoxic side effect. The pathological values returned to normal after withdrawal of the drug. Histological examinations showed that the tumour cells had changed but failed to disappear after treatment.
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PMID:Treatment of prostatic cancer with Estracyt (estramustine phosphate). 110 75

Isolated rat livers were perfused for 6 hours by different types of cell-free synthetic media. Some of the media included perfluoro-compounds as an oxygen carrier. The value of the perfusion medium as blood substitute was judged on the basis of observations and measurements of a number of parameters. These were: secretion of bile, fluid pressure in the portal vein, the level of GPT (ALAT) transaminase, urea nitrogen, and glucose in the perfusate. The rate of albumin synthesis and the rate of 14-C-lysine incorporated into circulating proteins were also measured. It was found that perfusion of the isolated rat liver with the TC-199 Difco medium containing the perfluoro-compound FC-80 emulsion maintained the liver in a good condition demonstrated, among other things, by the synthesis of albumin and other proteins. The liver could be kept in a good functional condition during 6 hours perfusion with this cell-free medium. With all the other types of perfusate tested the liver did not synthesize proteins. The isolated rat liver seems to be both convenient and advantageous for testing the perfusion media with respect to their capacity to maintain important metabolic functions.
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PMID:Studies on isolated rat liver perfused by perfluoro-compound emulsion. 112 46

Mecadox addition to the diet of laboratory mice in doses of 25 mg/kg/day for 30 days resulted in some hematologic and biochemical modifications: 1. Red cell count declined moderately, leucocyte and neutrophile count was higher and reached their normal values 15 days following treatment. 2. Modifications of liver transaminases expressed by a diminution of GOT and GPT activities were observed together with a reduction of free nitrogen. Values returned to normal within 15 days after treatment. 3. Mecadox stimulated weight gain in treated animals during the first 15 days of treatment. No significant differences were observed in weight gain between the two groups during the period which followed treatment.
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PMID:Modification of some hematologic and biochemical indices in mice consecutive mecadox administration. 119 Sep 73

The effect of selenite coadministration on the toxicity and antitumor activity of repeated treatment with high doses of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (cis-DDP) was examined in mice. Sodium selenite was injected s.c. into separate abdominal sites of mice together with cis-DDP at a molar ratio of 1:3.5 (selenite to cis-DDP) on day 0. The same amount of selenite was given daily for 4 subsequent days (days 1-4). This fixed administration schedule was repeated weekly for a total of 7 weeks. Under the experimental conditions used, the lethal toxicity, renal toxicity [indicated by an increase in blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and plasma creatinine levels], hepatic toxicity (indicated by an increase in plasma GPT and GOT activity), and myelotoxicity (indicated by a decrease in the numbers of leukocytes and platelets) observed in mice given repeated doses of cis-DDP alone (15 or 25 mumol/kg, s.c.) were significantly depressed by the coadministration of sodium selenite. Treatment with cis-DDP alone (15, 20, or 25 mumol/kg, s.c.) resulted in some dose-dependent prolongation of the life span of mice transplanted either s.c. with colon adenocarcinoma 38 (colon 38) or i.p. with P388 leukemia (P388) but did not completely depress the tumor growth, and the animals died of either progressive disease or cis-DDP-induced toxicity. However, following the coadministration of 7.1 mumol/kg selenite with 25 mumol/kg cis-DDP, all of the mice transplanted either s.c. with colon 38 or i.p. with P388 survived for as long as 4 months after the end of the treatment and showed no evidence of malignancy. These results indicate that selenite coadministration enables the use of increasing doses of cis-DDP and, consequently, enhances the antitumor effect of cis-DDP by depressing its side effects.
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PMID:Effect of coadministration of selenite on the toxicity and antitumor activity of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) given repeatedly to mice. 139

Aniline and its halogenated derivatives are widely used as chemical intermediates. The purpose of this study was to determine the hepatotoxic and nephrotoxic potential of the 2-haloanilines. Male Fischer 344 rats (n > or = 4) were injected (i.p.) with 1.0 or 1.25 mmol/kg of: aniline (A), 2-fluoroaniline (2-FA), 2-chloroaniline (2-ClA), 2-bromoaniline (2-BrA), 2-iodoaniline (2-IA) or vehicle (0.9% saline, 2.5 ml/kg). All compounds were injected as hydrochloride salts. Renal and hepatic function was monitored 24 h after treatment. All of the 2-haloanilines induced oliguria, diminished kidney weight, tubular casts and decreased renal cortical slice accumulation of organic anions. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels were increased (P < 0.05) by treatment with 1.0 or 1.25 mmol/kg of 2-FA, 2-ClA or 2-BrA. Hepatic alterations were also observed and characterized by elevated plasma ALT/GPT activity and altered morphology in the centrilobular region. The nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic potentials were similar among the 2-haloanilines but aniline was less toxic than its 2-halo derivatives. These results demonstrated that halogen substitution at the 2-position of aniline increased hepatic and renal toxicity. However, the severity of toxicity was not influenced by the nature of the halogen substituent.
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PMID:Acute renal and hepatic toxicity of 2-haloanilines in Fischer 344 rats. 146 50

Nineteen hematological and serum biochemical values were analyzed for 91 healthy cats of both sexes (aged 1 to 48 months) that were bred and reared in our laboratory. Age-related changes were found for many parameters. Red blood cell counts (RBC), hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Ht), Mean corpuscular constants, GPT, total protein (TP) and albumin (ALB) initially were low but increased then stabilized. White blood cell counts (WBC), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), inorganic phosphorus (Pi), total bilirubin (TBil), total cholesterol (TC), glucose (GLU), and triglyceride (TG) initially were high, but decreased then stabilized. No age-related changes were found for GOT, blood urea nitrogen, or calcium. Of the parameters that changed with age, the mean corpuscular constants, GPT, GLU, and TG became stabilized during the first 3 to 4 months of life, but others (RBC, Hb, Ht, TP, ALB) became stabilized after 9 to 11 months, during which period body weight reached a plateau. Some parameters (WBC, ALP, TG, Pi) showed change up to 18 months of age. These results suggest that cats 9 to 11 months old can be regarded as adults; but for some parameters, cats aged 18 months, or older, are better regarded as adults. Sex-related differences in the values for mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, and WBC that were found after 11 months of age were higher in females. ALB was higher in males.
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PMID:[Age-related changes in hematological and serum biochemical values in cats]. 150 20


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