Acta Pharmaceutica 2003-06-01

Toxicovigilance: new biochemical tool used in sulfonylurea herbicides toxicology studies.

Hafid Belhadj-Tahar, Nicolas Adamczewski, Bertrand Nassar, Yvon Coulais

Index: Acta. Pharm. 53(2) , 111-8, (2003)

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Abstract

In vitro toxic effects of sulfonylurea herbicides (thifensulfuron-methyl and metsulfuron-methyl) were evaluated according to a new protocol. Physiological conditions were reproduced in order to boost toxicovigilance. Sulfonylureas and their hydrolysis products were added to biological substrates such as urea, alanine, aspartic acid, alpha-ketoglutarate, oxaloacetate, pyruvate and then incubated with some specific enzymes. Addition of these sulfonylureas and their degradation products did not significantly change the enzymatic activity of the urease, aspartate-aminotransferase, glutamate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase. However, the acid hydrolysis products inhibited up to 95% of the activity of the alanine-aminotransferase at low concentrations (0.27 micromol L(-1)). Inhibition did not affect the mitochondrial aspartate-aminotransferase.

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