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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

open access: yesClinical 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   +4 more
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Toxic effects of cyanobacterial alga N. muscurum on some physiological parameters in blood of Ctenopharyngodon idella VaL.1844

open access: yesمجلة 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 *
doaj   +4 more sources

The Contents of Herbal and Dietary Supplements Implicated in Liver Injury in the United States Are Frequently Mislabeled

open access: yesHepatology 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   +8 more
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Prebiotics: A Novel Approach to Treat Hepatocellular Carcinoma

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2017
Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the fatal malignancies and is considered as the third leading cause of death. Mutations, genetic modifications, dietary aflatoxins, or impairments in the regulation of oncogenic pathways may bring about liver cancer. An
Naz Fatima   +2 more
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Effects of Various Hepatotoxins and Possible Protective Agents on In Vitro Hepatocytes

open access: yes, 1983
v, 37 p.The liver is the site of damage by many toxins, therefore protection of the liver from toxic damage is of interest to researchers. In the present study, hepatotoxins and possible protective agents were examined in vitro.
Weston, Kathleen A.
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Variability in microcystin quotas during a Microcystis bloom in a eutrophic lake.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Liver injury and expression of cytochromes P450: evidence that regulation of CYP2A5 is different from that of other major xenobiotic metabolizing CYP enzymes

open access: yes, 1996
The purpose of this study was to find out how liver injury caused by two well-known hepatotoxins, chloroform and thioacetamide, alters the expression of hepatic xenobiotic metabolizing cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes of DBA/2N mice.
McGregor, D.   +5 more
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On the Chemistry, Toxicology and Genetics of the Cyanobacterial Toxins, Microcystin, Nodularin, Saxitoxin and Cylindrospermopsin

open access: yesMarine Drugs, 2010
The cyanobacteria or “blue-green algae”, as they are commonly termed, comprise a diverse group of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria that inhabit a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial environments, and display incredible morphological diversity.
Leanne Pearson   +4 more
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Hepatotoxic slimming aids and other herbal hepatotoxins

open access: yes, 2015
Perceptions of safety and/or cultural mores prompt individuals to seek herbal slimming aids in preference to conventional dietary, physical activity and medication-based protocols.
Chitturi, Shivakumar, Farrell, Geoffrey
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Climate change and regulation of hepatotoxin production in Cyanobacteria [PDF]

open access: yesFEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2014
Harmful, bloom-forming cyanobacteria (CyanoHABs) are occurring with increasing regularity in freshwater and marine ecosystems. The most commonly occurring cyanobacterial toxins are the hepatotoxic microcystin and nodularin. These cyclic hepta- and pentapeptides are synthesised nonribosomally by the gene products of the toxin gene clusters mcy and nda ...
Michelle M, Gehringer, Nicola, Wannicke
openaire   +2 more sources

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