In vitro assessment of cephaloridine nephrotoxicity: Comparison of renal cortical slice and renal tubule fragment techniques

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raul Hernandez Cruz ◽  
Mark Gumbleton ◽  
Paul J. Nicholls
1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Andrea Trevisan ◽  
Stefano Maso ◽  
Paola Meneghetti

The in vitro renal cortical slice model was used to study: 1) the effects on the kidney of some haloalkanes and haloalkenes using 3-month-old male Wistar rats; 2) influence of age and sex on renal cortical slice indices in non-treated rats; and 3) effects of 1,2-dichloropropane on the slices after pretreatment of 3-month-old male Wistar rats with DL-butathionine-[S,R]-sulphoximine. The most nephrotoxic chemical used was 1,3-dichloropropene, which caused a total depletion in the levels of reduced glutathione, a high peroxidation of lipid (about three thousand-fold with respect to control), a significant release of tubular enzymes into the medium, and loss of organic anion ( p-aminohippurate) accumulation. All the chemicals affected the cytosol more than the brush border. The most remarkable age-related differences in the untreated slices were the progressive decrease of reduced glutathione (p<0.05 from three months of age), and an increase in lactate dehydrogenase release into the medium (p<0.05 from six months of age). By contrast, sex differences were slight. The ‘treatment with 1,2-dichloropropane of slices prepared from rats pretreated with DL-butathionine-[S,R]-sulphoximine significantly increased the depletion of glutathione content (p<0.05) and malondialdehyde release in the medium (p<0.001) caused by the solvent alone.


1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Trevisan ◽  
Paola Meneghetti ◽  
Stefano Maso ◽  
Ornella Troso

1 Renal cortical slices isolated from the kidneys of male Wistar rats were used as an experimental model for studying the nephrotoxicity induced by 1,2-dichloropropane. 2 The solvent causes a depletion of renal reduced glutathione content and slight, but significant, lipid peroxidation. The block of the oxidative pathway with carbon monoxide prevents glutathione content depletion, and shows that this conjugation is the major step in 1,2-dichloropropane metabolism. 3 Loss of organic anion accumulation and release into the incubation medium of tubular enzymes, mainly from the soluble fraction, are the toxic effects of the solvent. The brush border is only slightly affected. 4 The mechanism of nephrotoxicity appears to occur via mercapturic acid metabolism. Acivicin and aminooxyacetic acid, inhibitors of gammaglutamyltransferase and β-lyase activity, respectively, partially but significantly prevent the loss of organic anion accumulation induced by 1,2-dichloropropane. Furthermore, α-ketobutyrate, an activator of β-lyase, enhances the effects of 1,2-dichloropropane on the target, but is itself toxic for organic anion accumulation.


Planta Medica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
VK Manda ◽  
OR Dale ◽  
C Awortwe ◽  
Z Ali ◽  
IA Khan ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 2444-2449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Chudinova ◽  
Maria Surmeneva ◽  
Andrey Koptioug ◽  
Irina V. Savintseva ◽  
Irina Selezneva ◽  
...  

Custom orthopedic and dental implants may be fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM), for example using electron beam melting technology. This study is focused on the modification of the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy coin-like scaffolds fabricated via AM technology (EBM®) by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputter deposition of hydroxyapatite (HA) coating. The scaffolds with HA coating were characterized by Scanning Electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction. HA coating showed a nanocrystalline structure with the crystallites of an average size of 32±9 nm. The ability of the surface to support adhesion and the proliferation of human mesenchymal stem cells was studied using biological short-term tests in vitro. In according to in vitro assessment, thin HA coating stimulated the attachment and proliferation of cells. Human mesenchymal stem cells cultured on the HA-coated scaffold also formed mineralized nodules.


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