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E Burdino

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[Protective effect on nephropathy and on cataract in the streptozotocin-diabetic rat of the vanadium-lazaroid combination].

Experimental work from our laboratory has confirmed the protective power of vanadium compounds on hyperglycemia and glycosuria in streptozotocin (STZ) diabetes. Furthermore, the diabetic cataract too has been partially prevented. The protection slightly increased, when vanadium was administered in combination with vitamin E. This investigation has introduced a combination of Na3VO4 plus the lazaroid U-83836E, a liposoluble antioxidant much more efficacious than tocopherol, in order to improve the insufficient protection when vitamin E was used. Male Wistar rats, rendered diabetic with STZ, were treated for 12 weeks with Na3VO4 in drinking water, U-83836E carried by the food, or both. The most significant metabolic parameters (food and fluid intake, diuresis and excreted feces) were studied monthly by means of metabolic cages. Body weight, glycemia, glycosuria and proteinuria were also recorded. At week 6 and 12 of the treatment, the opaqueness of the eye lenses was controlled. Circulation glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), fructosamine, N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) and fluorescent peroxides were evaluated at the end of the experiment. After the first month of treatment U-83836E improved significantly the protective effect of vanadate alone on polydipsia and polyuria, but more efficiently on hyperglycemia and glycosuria. The further ameliorating effect of the lazaroid was observed also on HbA1c, NAG and, most important, on the cataract. In conclusion, these findings demonstrate that the lazaroid U-83836E succeeds in further protecting the most important symptoms of diabetes treated with vanadate, and that this antioxidant acts effectively even when it is administered per os, in a non invasive manner.

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[Eco-toxicological study conducted with a battery of biological and phytological tests on sediments carried out on a series of 24 tributaries of the Po in 1994 and 1995].

In spring and autumn 1994 and 1995 affluent water and bed sediment were sampled from 24 tributaries of the Po river, always at the same site and at the nearest place to the confluence. In the laboratory the pore water was separated from the particle fraction of the sediment. The organic compounds bound to the latter component were extracted with solvents and brought to water solution by means of dimethyl sulfoxide. The observed animal species, along with the seeds of Lepidium, were exposed to effluent water, to pore water and to water solutions of the organic compounds extracted from bed sediment. Toxicity was evaluated on the basis of 1) direct lethality, 2) the delay of embryo development, 3) the impairment of regeneration, in the animal species, while the germination index was used for the Lepidium susceptibility. The results of these investigations demonstrate that 1) the challenged species cover a broad range of sensitivities toward environmental toxins, 2) toxicity found in river samples appears almost exclusively bound to the sediment, 3) the noxious effects found in the tributaries of the Po river increase moving downstream, and 4) likewise the sediment-bound toxicity varies among the different samplings, both as a consequence of changes in rain-dependent river flow, and because of the man-made interventions on the river sides and bed.

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[Toxicity of atrazine and its metabolite deethylatrazine in Thamnocephalus platyurus and Dugesia gonocephala].

The toxicity of Atrazine and that of its Desethylatrazine metabolite has been defined employing two organisms already tested in our labs the Dugesia gonocephala, belonging to a scissiparous strain coming from the island of Tavolara (Sardinia) and the Thamnocephalus platyurus, crustacean anostracan produced under form of quiescent cysts from Creasel Ltd. (Deinze, Belgium). It has been defined the lethal concentrations at 50% of Atrazine and of Desethylatrazine, of which it has been studied also the report dose-effect in the comparisons of the rectilinear motility. The results highlight that in the comparisons of the T. platyurus Atrazine expounds a toxicity of around three times that of its metabolite; this is not seen with the Planarians that are equally sensitive to both the compounds. The use of these two experimental models for the evaluation of the contamination of bodies of water is shown to be particularly useful given their great sensitivity to pollutants.

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