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Experimental models used for the study of antihepatotoxic agents

Journal of Acute Disease, 2012
Both in vitro and in vivo liver models have been developed in the past years to study the hepatoprotective agents. These systems measure the ability of the test drug to prevent or cure liver toxicity (induced by various hepatotoxins) in experimental ...
Feroz Ahmad, Nahida Tabassum
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Can a one-sampling campaign produce robust results for water quality monitoring? A case of study in Itupararanga reservoir, SP, Brazil

Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia
Aim: The aim of this study was to conduct a rapid and comprehensive analysis of the reservoir using physical, chemical and biological variables comprising water and sediment as also to verify if a one-sampling campaign can produce information that is ...
Frederico Guilherme de Souza Beghelli, Marcelo Luiz Martins Pompêo, Mônica Páscoli, Vivian Silva Lira, Renata de Lima, Viviane Moschini-Carlos   +5 more
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The Toxins of Cyanobacteria

Acta Medica, 2001
Cyanobacteria, formerly called ”blue-green algae“, are simple, primitive photosynthetic microorganism wide occurrence in fresh, brackish and salt waters.
Jiří Patočka
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Transmission of Microcystins in Natural Systems and Resource Processes: A Review of Potential Risks to Humans Health

Toxins, 2023
The rapid rise of microcystins (MCs) poses a serious threat to global freshwater ecosystems and has become an important issue of global public health. MCs have considerable stability and are the most widely distributed hepatotoxins.
Xueli Ren, Yuting Wang, Kenian Zhang, Yi Ding, Wanqing Zhang, Mengyi Wu, Beiqi Xiao, Peng Gu   +7 more
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Immunotoxic Effects Induced by Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin: A Review

Toxins, 2021
Cyanotoxin occurrence is gaining importance due to anthropogenic activities, climate change and eutrophication. Among them, Microcystins (MCs) and Cylindrospermopsin (CYN) are the most frequently studied due to their ubiquity and toxicity.
Leticia Diez-Quijada, Maria del Monte Benítez-González, María Puerto, Angeles Jos, Ana M. Cameán   +4 more
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Toxic effects of cyanobacterial alga N. muscurum on some physiological parameters in blood of Ctenopharyngodon idella VaL.1844

مجلة علوم ذي قار, 2019
                                      Study included feeding juvenile grass carp Ctenophartyngodon idella on toxic alga Nostoc muscurum as solitary and mixture feeding ( toxic alga and clover) as ...
Emad Y.A. Al-Sultan *
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A Case of Acute Severe Hepatotoxicity and Mild Constriction of Common Bile Duct Associated With Ingestion of Green Tea Extract: A Clinical Challenge

Clinical Medicine Insights: Gastroenterology, 2018
Consumption of herbal and dietary supplements (HDS) has increased worldwide as potential treatment for weight reduction and metabolic enhancement. However, it has been reported that HDS can cause liver injury which accounts for 20% of hepatotoxicity in ...
Balarama Krishna Surapaneni, Michelle Le, Julian Jakobovits, Rakesh Vinayek, Sudhir Dutta   +4 more
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Variability in microcystin quotas during a Microcystis bloom in a eutrophic lake.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Microcystis is a bloom-forming genus of cyanobacteria with some genotypes that produce highly toxic microcystin hepatotoxins. In waterbodies where biological and physical factors are relatively homogenous, toxin quotas (the average amount of toxin per ...
Susanna A Wood, Jonathan Puddick, Ian Hawes, Konstanze Steiner, Daniel R Dietrich, David P Hamilton   +5 more
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The Contents of Herbal and Dietary Supplements Implicated in Liver Injury in the United States Are Frequently Mislabeled

Hepatology Communications, 2019
The U.S. Drug Induced Liver Injury Network assayed the contents of herbal and dietary supplements collected from patients enrolled into its prospective study.
Victor Navarro, Bharathi Avula, Ikhlas Khan, Manisha Verma, Leonard Seeff, Jose Serrano, Andrew Stolz, Robert Fontana, Jawad Ahmad   +8 more
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Noncompetitive Chromogenic Lateral-Flow Immunoassay for Simultaneous Detection of Microcystins and Nodularin

Biosensors, 2019
Cyanobacterial blooms cause local and global health issues by contaminating surface waters. Microcystins and nodularins are cyclic cyanobacterial peptide toxins comprising numerous natural variants.
Sultana Akter, Teemu Kustila, Janne Leivo, Gangatharan Muralitharan, Markus Vehniäinen, Urpo Lamminmäki   +5 more
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