赤苷脉通注射液的致突变研究

目的探讨中药制剂赤苷脉通注射液的致突变性。方法采用鼠伤寒沙门氏组氨酸营养缺陷型菌株回复突变实验(Ames实验)、中国仓鼠肺成纤维细胞(CHL)染色体畸变实验和小鼠骨髓微核实验来检测赤苷脉通注射液的致突变作用。结果 Ames实验中,赤苷脉通注射液在312.5～5 000μg.皿-1剂量范围内,无论加或不加S9,鼠伤寒沙门氏菌组氨酸缺陷型TA97,TA98,TA100,TA102和TA1535 5株菌的回复突变菌落数均未出现剂量依赖性的增加;染色体畸变实验中,非活化条件或代谢活化条件下,药物质量浓度为1 200,600和300μg.mL-1时,细胞的染色体畸变率均未出现剂量依赖性增加;微核实验中,在1 150,575和287.5mg.kg-1剂量组中均未见骨髓中含微核的嗜多染红细胞数增加。结论在该实验室条件下,Ames实验、CHL细胞染色体畸变实验和小鼠骨髓微核实验结果均为阴性,即中药制剂赤苷脉通注射液无潜在的遗传毒性。     

舟山眼镜蛇毒α-神经毒素致突变性研究(英文)

目的对舟山眼镜蛇毒α-神经毒素的致突变性进行研究,为临床应用的安全性提供依据。方法应用中国仓鼠肺成纤维细胞CHL染色体畸变试验和Ames试验检测舟山眼镜蛇毒α-神经毒素是否有致突变性。结果 Ames试验:对于突变株TA97、TA100和TA102,α-神经毒素浓度达到或者超过2.56μg·m L-1,Ames试验阳性(P<0.05);对于突变株TA98,α-神经毒素浓度达到或者超过5.12μg·m L-1,Ames试验阳性(P<0.05)。但回复突变和畸变率与神经毒素的浓度不呈线性关系,也与是否有活化剂S9无关联。染色体畸变试验:α-神经毒素浓度达到或者超过0.64μg·m L-1,CHL细胞染色体畸变为阳性(P<0.05),但畸变率与神经毒素的浓度不呈线性关系,也与是否有活化剂S9无关联。结论舟山眼镜蛇毒α-神经毒素临床剂量为1μg·kg·d-1时在致突变性上是安全的。     

银参胶囊遗传毒性研究

目的探讨银参胶囊的遗传毒性。方法选用SPF级健康ICR小鼠,通过Ames试验、小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验、小鼠睾丸染色体畸变试验等遗传毒性试验验证银参胶囊的安全性。结果 Ames试验中,银参胶囊在8~5 000μg/皿剂量范围内,无论是否加入哺乳动物肝脏微粒体酶(S9),鼠伤寒沙门菌TA97,TA98,TA100,TA102等4株菌的回复突变菌落数均未出现剂量依赖性增加;微核试验中,2 500,5 000,10 000 mg/kg剂量组均未见骨髓中含微核的嗜多染红细胞数增加;小鼠睾丸染色体畸变试验中,药物质量分数为2 500,5 000,10 000 mg/kg时,细胞的染色体畸变率均未出现剂量依赖性增加。结论银参胶囊未显示致突变作用,可初步判定其在遗传毒性方面是安全的。     

补血益母丸遗传毒性研究

目的 对补血益母丸干膏粉进行遗传毒性试验,为临床安全用药提供依据。方法 采用组氨酸营养缺陷型鼠伤寒沙门氏菌TA97a、TA98、TA100、TA102、TA1535进行细菌回复突变（Ames）试验,采用中国仓鼠肺成纤维（CHL）细胞进行体外染色体畸变试验,采用ICR小鼠进行骨髓细胞微核试验综合评估补血益母丸干膏粉的遗传毒性。其中,Ames试验设50、150、500、1 500、5 000μg·皿-1 5个剂量;体外细胞染色体畸变试验设125、250、500μg·mL-1 3个剂量;小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验设500、1 000、2 000 mg·kg-1 3个剂量,每天给药1次,连续给药3 d。结果 在代谢及非代谢活化条件下（+S9/-S9）,Ames试验结果显示,补血益母丸干膏粉对各菌株均无明显或可重复的诱变性及抑菌性;体外CHL细胞染色体畸变试验结果显示,补血益母丸干膏粉对CHL细胞染色体结构畸变率未见有意义的升高;小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验结果显示,补血益母丸干膏粉对ICR小鼠骨髓细胞微核率无明显影响。结论 补血益母丸干膏粉未见潜在的遗传毒性。     

喹烯酮遗传毒性的研究

喹烯酮由中国农科院兰州畜牧与兽药研究所研制的一类低毒的抗菌促生长药物。为了探讨其遗传毒性,采用Ames试验、小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验和体外哺乳动物细胞染色体畸变试验,预测其遗传危害和潜在致癌的可能性。方法在Ames试验中,以1.0、2.6、6.9、18.2和50.0μg/皿的剂量,对TA97、TA98、TA100、TA102、TA1535、TA1537等6个菌株,采用直接掺入法进行试验;在微核试验中,以1700、3600和7200mg/kg的剂量,采用30h2次给药法制片观察,并计算微核率;在体外染色体畸变试验中,以1.25、2.5、5.0和10.0μg/ml的剂量为终浓度,采用V79细胞株,进行制片观察,并计算染色体畸变率。在Ames试验中,除TA102、TA1535为阴性外,各剂量组在18.2μg/皿时加和不加代谢活化系统都为阳性,且呈现一定的剂量-反应关系;在微核试验中,各剂量组微核率与阴性对照组比较差异无统计学意义(P>0.05);在体外染色体畸变试验,各剂量组加和不加代谢活化系统时染色体畸变率均小于5%,为阴性。本研究首次进行了6种菌株的Ames试验、微核试验和体外哺乳动物细胞染色体畸变试验,结果表明,喹烯酮对Ames试验菌株具有一定的致突变性,提示喹烯酮具有一定的遗传毒性。     

NatA-50的遗传毒性试验

目的检测NatA-50是否具有潜在的遗传毒性,为临床应用提供安全性依据。方法采用小鼠骨髓嗜多染红细胞微核试验、Ames试验和中国仓鼠肺成纤维细胞(CHL)染色体畸变试验,分别从基因水平和细胞水平进行评价。结果小鼠微核试验显示,小鼠经口按5.0、2.5和1.25g/kg连续7d灌胃给予NatA-50,未见小鼠骨髓嗜多染红细胞微核数目增加;NatA-50的5个剂量组5000、2500、500、250和25μg/皿的Ames试验结果表明,加和不加大鼠干微粒体酶(S9)代谢活化剂,都未引起鼠伤寒沙门氏菌TA97、98、100和1024菌株突变菌落数目的增加或减少;体外CHL染色体畸变试验采用11.40、5.70、2.85、1.43和0.71μg/ml4个浓度,有无S9代谢活化剂参与,对CHL细胞均未发现明显的染色体损伤效应,结果均为阴性。结论在本试验条件下,未观察到NatA-50有遗传毒性。     

爱宁的致突变作用研究

目的检测爱宁的致突变性,以提供有关致突变的遗传毒性安全评价数据。方法设1.6,8,40,200和1000μg/皿5个剂量组,进行Am es试验;设0.3,1,3和9μg.mL-14个剂量组,进行仓鼠肺成纤维细胞染色体畸变试验;设15,100和250 mg.kg-13个剂量组,观察其对小鼠骨髓细胞微核的影响。结果Am es试验表明,爱宁在加和不加S9的条件下,对TA97,TA98,TA100和TA102菌株回复突变菌落结果为阴性。仓鼠肺成纤维细胞染色体畸变试验表明,爱宁对中国仓鼠肺成纤维细胞体外培养染色体无畸变作用。小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验表明,爱宁三个剂量组的微核出现率与阴性对照组比较无显著性差异。结论在本实验条件下,爱宁无致突变性。     

毛蚶提取物的遗传毒性试验研究

目的 评价毛蚶提取物的遗传毒性,为评价其安全性提供毒理学依据。方法 选用体外细菌回复突变(Ames)试验、中国仓鼠肺细胞(CHL)体外染色体畸变试验、小鼠骨髓嗜多染红细胞微核试验,进行毛蚶提取物的遗传毒性研究。Ames试验设5000.0、2500.0、1250.0、625.0、312.5 μg/皿5个剂量;体外CHL细胞染色体畸变试验,设立5.00、2.50、1.25 mg/mL 3个剂量,毛蚶提取物与CHL细胞分别接触6、24 h;小鼠骨髓微核试验,设立5000、2500、1250 mg/kg 3个剂量,给药1次。结果 Ames试验,毛蚶提取物在加与不加S9时各剂量组回变菌落数均未超过自发回变菌落数的2倍,亦无剂量相关性,结果为阴性;CHL染色体畸变试验,毛蚶提取物代谢活化组和非代谢活化组的染色体畸变率均低于5%,染色体畸变试验结果为阴性。小鼠骨髓微核试验,各剂量组的微核率与阴性对照组比较,差异不显著,结果为阴性。结论 在本试验条件下,毛蚶提取物未见潜在的遗传毒性。     

中药浮海石致突变的实验研究

目的研究中药浮海石致突变性。方法本试验采用鼠伤寒沙门菌回复突变试验(Ames试验),哺乳动物培养细胞(CHL)染色体畸变试验和小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验观察了浮海石的致突变作用。结果浮海石生理盐水浸提液0.5~5000μg/皿剂量下Ames试验结果阴性;250~1000μg/mL剂量下对CHL细胞无损伤作用,10~40g/kg剂量下对小鼠骨髓细胞染色体无致畸变作用。结论浮海石无致突变作用,用于临床是安全的。     

雷公藤内酯醇的遗传毒性评价

目的 观察雷公藤的主要有效成分之一雷公藤内酯醇的遗传毒性。方法 采用鼠伤寒沙门氏菌回复突变试验(Ames试验)、体外培养CHO细胞染色体畸变试验和小鼠骨髓微核试验检测雷公藤内酯醇的遗传毒性。结果 Ames试验提示在每皿1.6~1000 μg受试剂量下,在加或不加S9代谢活化系统时,受试物对组氨酸缺陷型鼠伤寒沙门氏菌TA97、TA98、TA100、TA102及TA1535所诱发的回复突变菌落数均与溶媒对照的突变菌落数相近。体外培养CHO细胞染色体畸变试验结果显示0.01、0.02和0.04 μg/ml 3个剂量的受试物,对加与不加S9代谢活化系统培养的CHO细胞的染色体畸变率无明显影响。小鼠骨髓微核试验设180、360、720 μg/kg 3个剂量,在720 μg/kg剂量时,雷公藤内酯醇有诱发骨髓嗜多染红细胞微核率增高的效应。结论 在本实验条件下,雷公藤内酯醇对鼠伤寒沙门氏菌无致突变性,对哺乳动物培养细胞染色体无致畸变作用,720 μg/kg剂量下对ICR小鼠有诱发骨髓嗜多染红细胞微核率增高的效应。提示雷公藤内酯醇对人体可能具有潜在的遗传毒性。     

Efficacy of gut lavage,hemodialysis, and hemoperfusion in the therapy of paraquat or diquat intoxication

Clinical and in vitro investigations were carried out to test the efficacy of gut lavage, hemodialysis, and hemoperfusion in the treatment of poisoning with paraquat or diquat. In a patient suffering from diquat intoxication 130 times more diquat was removed by gut lavage 30 h after ingestion than was removed by complete aspiration of the gastric contents.Determination of in vitro clearances for paraquat and diquat by hemodialysis showed that, at serum concentrations of 1–2 ppm, such as are frequently encountered in poisoning in man, toxicologically relevant quantities of herbicide cannot be removed from the body. At a concentration of 20 ppm, on the other hand, hemodialysis proved to be effective, the clearance being 70 ml/min at a blood flow rate of 100 ml/min. The efficacy of hemoperfusion with coated activated charcoal was on the whole better. Especially at concentrations around 1–2 ppm, the clearance values for hemoperfusion were some 5–7 times higher than those for hemodialysis.In a patient suffering from paraquat poisoning, both hemodialysis as well as hemoperfusion were carried out. The in vitro results could be confirmed: At serum concentrations of paraquat less than 1 ppm no clearance could be obtained by hemodialysis while by hemoperfusion with activated charcoal quite high clearance values were measured and the serum level dropped down to zero.

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Zusammenfassung Klinische Untersuchungen und Laboratoriumsversuche wurden durchgeführt, um die Wirksamkeit von Darmspülung, Hämodialyse und Hämoperfusion bei Paraquat- und Deiquat-Vergiftungen zu prüfen.Bei einem Patienten wurde 30 Std nach Deiquat-Aufnahme durch Darmspülung 130mal mehr Deiquat entfernt als durch vollständige Aspiration des Mageninhaltes. In vitro-Versuche ergaben, daß bei Blutserumkonzentrationen von 1–2 ppm, die bei Vergiftungen oft gemessen werden, durch Hämodialyse keine toxikologisch relevanten Paraquat- oder Deiquat-Mengen entfernt werden können. Dagegen erwies sich die Hämodialyse bei 20 ppm und einer Blutumlaufgeschwindigkeit von 100 ml/min mit einer Clearance von 70 ml/min als wirksam. Die Hämoperfusion mit beschicheter Aktivkohle war in diesen Versuchen aber eindeutig überlegen, denn insbesondere bei Konzentrationen um 1–2 ppm waren die Clearance-Werte 5–7mal höher als bei der Hämodialyse.Die in vitro-Ergebnisse wurden bei einem Patienten mit einer Paraquat-Vergiftung bestätigt: Bei Konzentrationen unter 1 ppm war die Hämodialyse wirkungslos, während durch Hämoperfusion relativ hohe Clearance-Werte erreicht wurden, so daß der Serumspiegel rasch unter die Nachweisgrenze abfiel.

     

In vitro studies on sterically stabilized liposomes (SL) as enzyme carriers in organophosphorus (OP) antagonism

This study describes a new approach for organophosphorous (OP) antidotal treatment by encapsulating an OP hydrolyzing enzyme, OPA anhydrolase (OPAA), within sterically stabilized liposomes. The recombinant OPAA enzyme was derived from Alteromonas strain JD6. It has broad substrate specificity to a wide range of OP compounds: DFP and the nerve agents, soman and sarin. Liposomes encapsulating OPAA (SL)* were made by mechanical dispersion method. Hydrolysis of DFP by (SL)* was measured by following an increase of fluoride ion concentration using a fluoride ion selective electrode. OPAA entrapped in the carrier liposomes rapidly hydrolyze DFP, with the rate of DFP hydrolysis directly proportional to the amount of (SL)* added to the solution. Liposomal carriers containing no enzyme did not hydrolyze DFP. The reaction was linear and the rate of hydrolysis was first order in the substrate. This enzyme carrier system serves as a biodegradable protective environment for the recombinant OP-metabolizing enzyme, OPAA, resulting in prolongation of enzymatic concentration in the body. These studies suggest that the protection of OP intoxication can be strikingly enhanced by adding OPAA encapsulated within (SL)* to pralidoxime and atropine.     

Aquatic Insects and Trace Metals: Bioavailability,Bioaccumulation, and Toxicity

Abstract

The uptake of metals from food and water sources by insects is thought to be additive. For a given metal, the proportions taken up from water and food will depend both on the bioavailable concentration of the metal associated with each source and the mechanism and rate by which the metal enters the insect. Attempts to correlate insect trace metal concentrations with the trophic level of insects should be made with a knowledge of the feeding relationships of the individual taxa concerned. Pathways for the uptake of essential metals, such as copper and zinc, exist at the cellular level, and other nonessential metals, such as cadmium, also appear to enter via these routes. Within cells, trace metals can be bound to proteins or stored in granules. The internal distribution of metals among body tissues is very heterogeneous, and distribution patterns tend to be both metal and taxon specific. Trace metals associated with insects can be both bound on the surface of their chitinous exoskeleton and incorporated into body tissues. The quantities of trace meals accumulated by an individual reflect the net balance between the rate of metal influx from both dissolved and particulate sources and the rate of metal efflux from the organism. The toxicity of metals has been demonstrated at all levels of biological organization: cell, tissue, individual, population, and community. Much of the literature pertaining to the toxic effects of metals on aquatic insects is based on laboratory observations and, as such, it is difficult to extrapolate the data to insects in nature. The few experimental studies in nature suggest that trace metal contaminants can affect both the distribution and the abundance of aquatic insects. Insects have a largely unexploited potential as biomonitors of metal contamination in nature. A better understanding of the physico-chemical and biological mechanisms mediating trace metal bioavailability and exchange will facilitate the development of general predictive models relating trace metal concentrations in insects to those in their environment. Such models will facilitate the use of insects as contaminant biomonitors.     

Pharmacological treatment of COVID-19: an opinion paper

The precocity and efficacy of the vaccines developed so far against COVID-19 has been the most significant and saving advance against the pandemic. The development of vaccines has not prevented, during the whole period of the pandemic, the constant search for therapeutic medicines, both among existing drugs with different indications and in the development of new drugs. The Scientific Committee of the COVID-19 of the Illustrious College of Physicians of Madrid wanted to offer an early, simplified and critical approach to these new drugs, to new developments in immunotherapy and to what has been learned from the immune response modulators already known and which have proven effective against the virus, in order to help understand the current situation.     

Steroidal sapogenin contents in some domestic plants

In order to find out the values of the steroid resources for the future use. the compositions and contents of steroidal sapogenins from 13 domestic plants have been investigated. As a result,Dioscorea nipponica, D. quinqueloba andSmilax china were found to have large amount of diosgenin. And pennogenin inTrillium kamtschaticum andParis verticillata, yuccagenin inAllium fistulosum, hecogenin inAgave americana and neochlorogenin inSolanum nigum were appeared to be major steroidal sapogenins.     

Alzheimer’s disease – current trends in basic and clinical research. Highlights from the 16th ECNP

Advances in the molecular biological knowledge of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have led to a growing interest by the pharmaceutical industry in the development of novel compounds that selectively modulate nAChR function. The ability of (-)-nicotine, an activator of nAChRs, to enhance attentional aspects of cognition in animals and humans, to exert neuroprotective and anxiolytic-like effects, and presumably to mediate the negative correlation between smoking and Alzheimer's (and Parkinson's) Disease, has focused interest on the potential therapeutic utility of modulators of nAChR function for treatment of some of the deficits associated with these progressive, neurodegenerative conditions. Numerous compounds are known which activate nAChRs and which might serve as lead compounds toward the development of such agents. The pharmacologic diversity of neuronal nAChR subtypes suggests the possibility of developing selective compounds which would have more favourable side-effect profiles than existing agents. This broader class of agents, collectively called cholinergic channel modulators (ChCMs), is anticipated to encompass compounds which would have more favourable side-effect profiles than existing agents, which generally exhibit low selectivity. This selectivity may be achieved by preferentially activating some subtypes of nAChRs (i.e., Cholinergic Channel Activators, ChCAs) or inhibiting the function of other subtypes (Cholinergic Channel Inhibitors, ChCIs). An overview of the biology of nAChRs and the rationale for the use of ChCMs for the treatment of dementia related to neurodegenerative diseases are presented, followed by a discussion of lead compounds and compounds under consideration for clinical evaluation.