The induction of unscheduled DMA synthesis in primary cultures of urothelial cells from rats, mice, and dogs by nitrofurans and arylamines and their derivatives was examined. Electron microscopy of the culture from rat cells showed the characteristics of epithelial cells. The cultured cells were ex posed to the test chemicals in a serum-free medium containing 10 HIMhydroxyurea and [3H]thymidine...

INTRODUCTION The incidence of microbial infections have been increasing day by day in worldwide. Many antibacterial agents are in use against a wide range of infectious diseases1,2. However, the resistance to existing drugs is still a serious problem threat to global public health. This situation leads medicinal chemists to investigate newly synthesized more potent antimicrobial drugs3. Among m...

Thirty-two heterocyclic compounds, including 24 nitroheterocycles, 7 aminoheterocycles and derivatives, and 1 thiophene lacking a nitro group, were tested for mutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium TA 98 and TA 100. All the nitroheterocycles (11 new), including nitrofurans, nitrothiophenes, nitropyrroles, and 1 nitroimidazole, were mutagenic in TA 100; 13 were also mutagenic in TA 98. 5-N...

A chemiluminescence-based biochip array sensing technique has been developed and applied to the screening of honey samples for residues of banned nitrofuran antibiotics. Using a multiplex approach, metabolites of the four main nitrofuran antibiotics could be simultaneously detected. Individual antibodies specific towards the metabolites were spotted onto biochips. A competitive assay format, wi...

We used a molecular method and demonstrated that treatment of the chronic human Trypanosoma cruzi infections with nitroderivatives did not lead to parasitological cure. Seventeen treated and 17 untreated chronic Chagas' disease patients, with at least two out of three positive serologic assays for the infection, and 17 control subjects formed the study groups. PCR assays with nested sets of T. ...

HE DETERMINATION OF NITROFTJRANTOIN concentration in the urine of patients receiving Furadantin#{174} [N-(5-nitro-2-furfurylidene)-1-aminohydantoin] for the therapy of urinary tract infections may be desirable for establishing the suitable dosage schedules. The present paper describes a chromatographic method, adapted from previous work at this laboratory (1), for separating interfering substan...

The mechanism of the trichomonicidal activity of metronidazole and other 5-nitroimidazoles appears to depend on the ferredoxin-mediated reduction of their nitro group, with generation of a reactive metabolite or metabolites which interact with DNA leading to a subsequent inhibition of nucleic acid and protein synthesis. Redox cycling of these compounds under aerobic conditions appears to be a d...

The antibacterial activities of different nitroheterocyclic compounds were assessed by an agar dilution method against aerobic, microaerophilic, and anaerobic bacteria. Nitronaphthofurans inhibited the multiplication of aerobic bacteria at low concentrations (MIC for 50% of strains tested [MIC50], 1 mg/liter). Under anaerobic growth conditions the MICs were found to be even lower. The rough, DN...