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Chen JY, Brockmöller J, Tzvetkov MV, Wang LJ, Chen XJ. An in vitro study on interaction of anisodine and monocrotaline with organic cation transporters of the SLC22 and SLC47 families. Chin J Nat Med 2020; 17:490-497. [PMID: 31514980 DOI: 10.1016/s1875-5364(19)30070-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Current study systematically investigated the interaction of two alkaloids, anisodine and monocrotaline, with organic cation transporter OCT1, 2, 3, MATE1 and MATE2-K by using in vitro stably transfected HEK293 cells. Both anisodine and monocrotaline inhibited the OCTs and MATE transporters. The lowest IC50 was 12.9 µmol·L-1 of anisodine on OCT1 and the highest was 1.8 mmol·L-1 of monocrotaline on OCT2. Anisodine was a substrate of OCT2 (Km = 13.3 ± 2.6 µmol·L-1 and Vmax = 286.8 ± 53.6 pmol/mg protein/min). Monocrotaline was determined to be a substrate of both OCT1 (Km = 109.1 ± 17.8 µmol·L-1, Vmax = 576.5 ± 87.5 pmol/mg protein/min) and OCT2 (Km = 64.7 ± 14.8 µmol·L-1, Vmax = 180.7 ± 22.0 pmol/mg protein/min), other than OCT3 and MATE transporters. The results indicated that OCT2 may be important for renal elimination of anisodine and OCT1 was responsible for monocrotaline uptake into liver. However neither MATE1 nor MATE2-K could facilitate transcellular transport of anisodine and monocrotaline. Accumulation of these drugs in the organs with high OCT1 expression (liver) and OCT2 expression (kidney) may be expected.
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- Jia-Yin Chen
- Department of Pharmacy, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518036, China
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- Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen 37075, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen 37075, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacy, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen 518036, China
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- Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China.
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Edgar JA, Molyneux RJ, Colegate SM. Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids: Potential Role in the Etiology of Cancers, Pulmonary Hypertension, Congenital Anomalies, and Liver Disease. Chem Res Toxicol 2014; 28:4-20. [PMID: 25483859 DOI: 10.1021/tx500403t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Large outbreaks of acute food-related poisoning, characterized by hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome, hemorrhagic necrosis, and rapid liver failure, occur on a regular basis in some countries. They are caused by 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids contaminating locally grown grain. Similar acute poisoning can also result from deliberate or accidental consumption of 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloid-containing herbal medicines, teas, and spices. In recent years, it has been confirmed that there is also significant, low-level dietary exposure to 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids in many countries due to consumption of common foods such as honey, milk, eggs, salads, and meat. The level of 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids in these foods is generally too low and too intermittent to cause acute toxicity. However, these alkaloids are genotoxic and can cause slowly developing chronic diseases such as pulmonary arterial hypertension, cancers, cirrhosis, and congenital anomalies, conditions unlikely to be easily linked with dietary exposure to 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids, especially if clinicians are unaware that such dietary exposure is occurring. This Perspective provides a comprehensive review of the acute and chronic toxicity of 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids and their potential to initiate certain chronic diseases, and suggests some associative considerations or indicators to assist in recognizing specific cases of diseases that may have resulted from dietary exposure to these hazardous natural substances. If it can be established that low-level dietary exposure to 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids is a significant cause of some of these costly and debilitating diseases, then this should lead to initiatives to reduce the level of these alkaloids in the food chain.
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- John A Edgar
- CSIRO Food and Nutrition , 11 Julius Avenue, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
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- Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, University of Hawaii at Hilo , 34 Rainbow Drive, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, United States
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- Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory, ARS/USDA , 1150 East 1400 North, Logan, Utah 84341, United States
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Edgar JA, Colegate SM, Boppré M, Molyneux RJ. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food: a spectrum of potential health consequences. Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess 2011; 28:308-24. [PMID: 21360376 DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2010.547520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Contamination of grain with 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine ester alkaloids (dehydroPAs) and their N-oxides is responsible for large incidents of acute and subacute food poisoning, with high morbidity and mortality, in Africa and in central and south Asia. Herbal medicines and teas containing dehydroPAs have also caused fatalities in both developed and developing countries. There is now increasing recognition that some staple and widely consumed foods are sometimes contaminated by dehydroPAs and their N-oxides at levels that, while insufficient to cause acute poisoning, greatly exceed maximum tolerable daily intakes and/or maximum levels determined by a number of independent risk assessment authorities. This suggests that there may have been cases of disease in the past not recognised as resulting from dietary exposure to dehydroPAs. A review of the literature shows that there are a number of reports of liver disease where either exposure to dehydroPAs was suspected but no source was identified or a dehydroPA-aetiology was not considered but the symptoms and pathology suggests their involvement. DehydroPAs also cause progressive, chronic diseases such as cancer and pulmonary arterial hypertension but proof of their involvement in human cases of these chronic diseases, including sources of exposure to dehydroPAs, has generally been lacking. Growing recognition of hazardous levels of dehydroPAs in a range of common foods suggests that physicians and clinicians need to be alert to the possibility that these contaminants may, in some cases, be a possible cause of chronic diseases such as cirrhosis, pulmonary hypertension and cancer in humans.
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- J A Edgar
- CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, North Ryde, Australia.
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Boppré M, Colegate SM, Edgar JA, Fischer OW. Hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in pollen and drying-related implications for commercial processing of bee pollen. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2008; 56:5662-5672. [PMID: 18553916 DOI: 10.1021/jf800568u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Using HPLC-ESI-MS, several saturated and 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids were detected, mainly as their N-oxides, in fresh pollen collected from flowers of the pyrrolizidine alkaloid-producing plants Echium vulgare, E. plantagineum, Senecio jacobaea, S. ovatus, and Eupatorium cannabinum, and/or pollen loads from bees (bee pollen) that foraged on those plants. A major alkaloidal metabolite in S. ovatus was tentatively identified, using its mass spectrometric data and biogenic considerations, as the previously unreported, saturated alkaloid, 2-hydroxysarracine. Heating had very little effect on the 1,2-dehydropyrrolizidine alkaloids and their N-oxides from a variety of sources. Considered in conjunction with international concerns about the adverse effects of these alkaloids, the results strongly indicate a need for monitoring pollen supplies intended for human consumption, at least until conditions for processing and/or selection are clearly defined such as to significantly reduce the hepatotoxic (and potentially carcinogenic and genotoxic) pyrrolizidine alkaloid content of bee pollen.
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- Michael Boppré
- CSIRO Livestock Industries, Plant Toxins Research Group, Private Bag 24, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
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Khan JU, Takemoto CM, Casella JF, Streiff MB, Nwankwo IJ, Kim HS. Catheter-directed thrombolysis of inferior vena cava thrombosis in a 13-day-old neonate and review of literature. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2007; 31 Suppl 2:S153-60. [PMID: 18004620 DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9229-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2007] [Revised: 09/28/2007] [Accepted: 10/16/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Complete inferior vena cava thrombosis (IVC) in neonates is uncommon, but may cause significant morbidity. A 13-day-old neonate suffered IVC thrombosis secondary to antithrombin III deficiency, possibly contributed to by a mutation in the methyl tetrahydrofolate reductase gene. Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA, Alteplase) was used successfully to treat extensive venous thrombosis in this neonate without complications. We also review the literature on CDT for treatment of IVC thrombosis in critically ill neonates and infants.
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- Jawad U Khan
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Shimojima N, Shibata R, Hoshino K, Kawachi S, Tanabe M, Wakabayashi G, Shimazu M, Sakamoto M, Morikawa Y, Kitajima M. Cryptogenic fulminant hepatic failure in infancy: report of 2 cases with unique vascular obstructive changes in native livers. Liver Transpl 2006; 12:1418-22. [PMID: 16933237 DOI: 10.1002/lt.20850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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Although the causes of fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) remain cryptogenic in many cases, a few reports have reviewed the pathological findings of native livers to evaluate the etiology. We report 2 cases of infantile cryptogenic FHF with unique vascular obstructive changes in the native livers. Clinically, it was notable that these 2 patients developed FHF very early in life, at 2 months and 5 months of age, respectively. One patient died from chronic rejection associated with hepatic veno-occlusive disease 4 months after transplantation. Histologically, hepatocytes in the native livers were completely destroyed in both patients, and vascular findings revealed obstruction of central veins in 1 patient and obstruction of portal veins in the other patient. Although the pathogenesis of vascular obstructions is not yet understood, this study suggests that an obstructive vascular event may be a contributing etiologic factor of FHF in infancy.
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- Naoki Shimojima
- Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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The role of the pathologist in dealing with common problems of liver disease in children is likely to change dramatically as the molecular genetic revolution progresses. For example, microchip arrays for genes involved in bile salt synthesis and transport will pinpoint the specific mutations responsible for infantile cholestasis and similar methods will sort out infectious agents of acute and chronic hepatitis. But even as biochemistry, microbiology, and immunology laboratories already provide essential diagnostic information in such settings, informed histopathologic interpretation will continue to guide investigations of etiology and therapeutics and will remain an important medical necessity [95,96,100,102,104].
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- Milton J Finegold
- Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Dahms BB, Boyd T, Redline RW. Severe perinatal liver disease associated with fetal thrombotic vasculopathy. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2002; 5:80-5. [PMID: 11815872 DOI: 10.1007/s10024-001-0111-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2001] [Accepted: 09/17/2001] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Three neonates with fetal thrombotic vasculopathy in the placenta and severe neonatal liver disease are described. Symptoms included a bleeding disorder on the first day of life, followed by direct hyperbilirubinemia and elevated liver transaminases. All patients also had evidence of thrombosis outside the placenta, including cerebral infarct in two infants and thrombosis of the inferior vena cava in one infant. Liver disease was demonstrated to be thrombotic in one infant who died with Budd-Chiari syndrome. Two infants survived and had liver biopsy with cholestasis, bile duct proliferation, and portal fibrosis demonstrated at 4 weeks and 11 weeks of age, respectively. The etiology of thrombosis is unknown, though in one patient an excessively long and coiled umbilical cord may be implicated. The prenatal onset of thrombosis suggests an inherited or acquired thrombophilic state. In cases of enigmatic neonatal liver disease, an association with thrombosis should be considered and thrombi sought in placenta, umbilical cord, major blood vessels, and other organs. Evaluation for a hypercoagulable state is also suggested.
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- Beverly Barrett Dahms
- Department of Pathology, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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