Prior treatment of mice with poly I:C or NDV enhanced the lethal effect of E. coli or B. dermatitidis endotoxins.

Pesticides have an innate capacity to cause damage to biological system. Considering above fact the present study deals with the effect of the insecticide malathion on histological and biochemical study on cardiac muscle tissue in Channa punctatus. In present study effect of sub lethal concentration (0.8 ppm) of malathion on protein, lipid and glycogen content and histopathological changes in h...

Treatment of NMRI mice with isoniazid (INH; 25 mg/kg) intraperitoneally induced significant protection when it was injected before or after a lethal intravenous challenge with endotoxin. The INH preparation used was not contaminated with endotoxin. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was not elevated in sera from NMRI mice 2 h after the injection of INH. INH did not influence TNF synthesis or release d...