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Exp Toxicol Pathol ; 58(6): 375-82, 2007 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17408938

ABSTRACT

To evaluate new-drugs potential for phospholipidosis (PL), we developed a cell-based fluorescence assay using a fluorescent-labeled phospholipid analogue (NBD-PE). CHL/IU cells derived from newborn hamster lung were exposed to positive reference compounds (amiodarone, imipramine, chloroquine, propranolol, chlorpromazine and amantadine) in the presence of NBD-PE, and the level of PL, as indicated by accumulation of fluorescent inclusions in the cytoplasm, was evaluated using fluorescence microscopy and fluorometry. All positive reference compounds induced accumulation of fluorescent inclusions in a concentration-dependent manner with an increase in fluorescence intensity. Fluorescence microscopically, the positive dose of test compound was determined as the concentration with a grade equivalent to or above that of 3.13 microM of amiodarone. Based on this criterion, 8 of 20 test compounds including PL-positive or -negative compounds were judged positive that were concurrent with the pathological results from rat toxicity studies. Furthermore, a positive criterion for fluorometry was decided as equivalent to or above 25% of maximum intensity induced by 1.56-25.0 microM amiodarone. In comparison of fluorometry methods with fluorescence microscopy method, 19 of 20 compounds were judged same. From these findings, we concluded that the assay developed in this study is a rapid and reliable method to predict new-drugs potential for PL at an early stage of drug development.


Subject(s)
Drug Evaluation, Preclinical/methods , Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions , Fluorescent Dyes/pharmacology , Lipidoses/chemically induced , Phosphatidylethanolamines/pharmacology , Phospholipids/metabolism , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Cell Line , Cell Survival/drug effects , Cricetinae , Cricetulus , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Drug Combinations , Inclusion Bodies/drug effects , Inclusion Bodies/metabolism , Inclusion Bodies/ultrastructure , Lipidoses/metabolism , Lung/drug effects , Lung/metabolism , Lung/ultrastructure , Male , Microscopy, Confocal , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission , Microscopy, Fluorescence , Pharmaceutical Preparations/classification , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Spectrometry, Fluorescence
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Exp Toxicol Pathol ; 56(4-5): 245-53, 2005 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15816353

ABSTRACT

Streptozotocin (SZ) is known to exert toxic effects not only on pancreatic islet beta cells but also on other organs including the liver. For analyzing direct effects of SZ on hepatocytes, we performed morphological analysis and DNA microarray analysis on mouse primary cultured hepatocytes. Hepatocytes were taken from non-treated Crj:CD-1(ICR) mice. The primary cultured hepatocytes were treated with SZ at concentrations of 0, 1, 3, 10, 30 and 100 mM. After the treatment for about 6 or 24h, cell survival assay using tetrazolium salt (WST-1), light microscopic/electron microscopic analysis and gene expression analysis were performed. For the gene expression analysis, target (labeled cRNA) prepared from total RNA of the hepatocytes was hybridized to the GeneChip Murine Genome U74A V.2 (Affymetrix). The signal intensity calculation and scaling were performed using Microarray Suite Software Ver 5.0. IC50 of the cell survival assay was around 62 mM at 6 h exposure and 7 mM at 24 h exposure. Marked chromatin margination was observed in nuclei of the hepatocytes treated with SZ at concentrations of 3 or 10mM. Gene expression analysis revealed similar expression changes to those of in vivo, i.e. up-regulation in cell proliferation/ apoptosis related genes, and down-regulation of lipid metabolism related genes. These results potently supported the hypothesis that many of the hepatic alteration including histopathological and gene expression changes are induced by direct effect of SZ rather than by the secondary effect of the hyperglycemia or hypoinsulinemia.


Subject(s)
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/toxicity , Hepatocytes/drug effects , Hepatocytes/pathology , Streptozocin/toxicity , Animals , Apoptosis/drug effects , Cell Survival/drug effects , Cells, Cultured , Gene Expression/drug effects , Gene Expression Profiling , Hepatocytes/ultrastructure , Male , Mice , Microscopy, Electron, Transmission , Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
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Biochem Pharmacol ; 63(11): 2043-53, 2002 Jun 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12093482

ABSTRACT

We detected the expression of inducible bradykinin (BK) B1 receptor mRNA in the rat ileum by the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method, when the isolated ileum was suspended for at least 1 hr in an aerated Tyrode's solution at 37 degrees. The induction of this mRNA was both time- and temperature-dependent, and was followed by a contractile response to des-Arg9-BK at around 3 hr of incubation; this response increased in magnitude with time and was maximal at 6 hr. In contrast, the contraction in response to BK and the expression of B2 receptor mRNA were constant throughout this 6-hr incubation period. The contraction due to des-Arg9-BK was selectively suppressed by B1 receptor antagonists, i.e. des-Arg9[Leu8]-BK and des-Arg10-HOE140, but not by the B2 antagonists D-Arg-[Hyp3,Thi5,8,D-Phe7]-BK and HOE140. The inducible des-Arg9-BK contractile response was suppressed by continuous in vitro exposure of the ileum to cycloheximide or actinomycin D, but neither inhibitor affected the contraction induced by BK, suggesting that the B1 receptor could be induced de novo. In vitro and ex vivo treatment of the ileum with dexamethasone suppressed the induction of the contractile response to des-Arg9-BK, but had no significant effect on the expression of B1 receptor mRNA. Some protein kinase C inhibitors, i.e. H7 and calphostin C, suppressed the expression of B1 receptor mRNA and diminished the contractile response to des-Arg9-BK. These results suggest that the de novo synthesis of the B1 receptor in the ileum preparation can be up-regulated at the transcriptional level (a process in which a specific isoform of protein kinase C may be involved). Additionally, these data suggest that the contractile response to des-Arg9-BK involves a process sensitive to some post-transcriptional action of dexamethasone.


Subject(s)
Bradykinin/analogs & derivatives , Bradykinin/biosynthesis , Dexamethasone/pharmacology , Ileum/drug effects , Protein Kinase C/antagonists & inhibitors , Receptors, Bradykinin/physiology , Animals , Bradykinin/genetics , Bradykinin/metabolism , Bradykinin/pharmacology , Cycloheximide/pharmacology , Dactinomycin/pharmacology , Ileum/physiology , Indoles/pharmacology , Interleukin-1/pharmacology , Isotonic Solutions/pharmacology , Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology , Male , Muscle Contraction/drug effects , Polymyxin B/pharmacology , Pyrroles/pharmacology , RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis , RNA, Messenger/drug effects , Rats , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , Receptor, Bradykinin B1 , Temperature , Time Factors
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Exp Toxicol Pathol ; 53(6): 447-52, 2002 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11926286

ABSTRACT

6-Sulfanilamidoindazole (6SAI) induces selflimiting arthritis in rats. Since close relationships exist between arthritis and endotoxin, four experiments were conducted to clarify the relationship between endotoxin and 6SAI-induced arthritis. Endotoxin levels in the plasma from the abdominal aorta and portal vein from rats that had 6SAI (500 mg/kg) administered orally for up to 7 days remained within the control values at day 1 and day 3, and were significantly elevated at day 7. Endotoxin levels in the synovial fluid from the same rats showed no significant change. Ankle swelling and redness in rats treated 11 consecutive days with 6SAI did not ameliorate when coadministered with an anti-endotoxin agent, polymyxin B sulfate. Histopathological examination on the ankles of rats treated orally with non-arthiritogenic sulfonamides including sulfonamide, sulfamethoxazole and sulfadimethoxin (250 and 500 mg/kg/day, each compound) for 2 weeks demonstrated no inflammatory changes, while hyperplasia/hypertrophy of thyroid epithelial cells were frequently observed. When histopathological changes in the ankles from rats coadministered with 6SAI and lipopolysaccharide (LPS, Escherihia coli O55:B5, 50 microg/kg, i.v.) were compared with those in rats treated with 6SAI or LPS alone, the ankles from the 6SAI+LPS treated animals had marked edematous inflammation in the synovium and surrounding connective tissues, whereas the LPS-group had only mild focal infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes in the synovium and the 6SAI-group showed no apparent changes. These results suggest that endotoxin is not a direct cause but a possible acceralating factor of 6SAI-induced arthritis, and that the effects of 6SAI on gut bacteria is not related with the pathogenesis of this model.


Subject(s)
Arthritis, Experimental/blood , Endotoxins/blood , Administration, Oral , Animals , Arthritis, Experimental/chemically induced , Arthritis, Experimental/pathology , Disease Models, Animal , Drug Antagonism , Escherichia coli , Lipopolysaccharides/administration & dosage , Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology , Male , Polymyxin B/pharmacology , Rats , Rats, Inbred Strains , Serositis/blood , Serositis/chemically induced , Serositis/parasitology , Sulfanilamides/toxicity , Synovial Fluid/drug effects , Synovial Fluid/metabolism
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