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J C Calandra

Publications and source records attributed to J C Calandra.

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PubMed1975

Investigation of hexachlorophene for dominant lethal effects in the mouse.

Hexachlorophene (HCP) was studied for mutagenic effects in the dominant lethal test on mice. Groups of male mice were treated with either 2.5 or 5.0 mg hexachlorophene per kg body weight as a single intraperitoneal injection. Control animals were treated with the propylene glycol vehicle. Each male was mated with 3 untreated females for each of 8 consecutive weeks with the uterus of the females examined at mid-pregnancy for signs of early embryonic death. Treatment did not alter mating capacity and fertility of the males. The administration of hexachlorophene had no influence on pre- or post-implantation losses. An increase in early resorptions among female mice bred to males treated with the reference compound, methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) given a single i.p. injection of 100 mg/kg, indicated the susceptibility of the mouse strain used to a known mutagen. It is concluded that hexachlorophene at maximally tolerated doses is not mutagenic in the dominant lethal test in mice.

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PubMed1975

Chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies with FWAs.

Compounds (1), (2), (3), and (4) caused no adverse toxic effects and yielded no evidence of carcinogenic activity in a 2-year feeding study in albino rats at dietary levels up to 1000 ppm. Compounds (2), (3) and (4) were without effect in a 2-year study in beagle dogs at levels up to 2000 ppm. Compound (1) at levels of 400 and 1000 ppm led to decreased weight gains in some dogs and caused doserelated pathology consisting of inflammatory changes on the serosal surfaces of abdominal viscera and increased hematopoietic acitivty of the spleen and liver cords. These effect could have been due to the feeding of material, without adjustment of pH, for the first 30 weeks of the study.

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PubMed1975

Three-generation Reproduction studies with FWAs.

Four fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs), compounds (1), (2), (3) and (4) (see table 1) were investigated for their effects on the reproductive performance of albino rats through 3 successive 2-litter generations at dietary levels of 40, 200, and 1000 ppm. Except for slight and random effects of compound (4) on pup survival, no adverse effects were observed. The random effects with compound (4) were not consistently related to either dose level or cumulative duration of exposure through the 3 generations.

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PubMed1966

Salivary excretion of Coxsackie b-1 virus in rabbits.

Coxsackie B-1 virus was injected into the ear vein of albino doe rabbits. Saliva and blood samples were taken before the injection of virus and at specific times thereafter. Virus was recovered in the whole saliva when the blood titer was approximately 10(4) TCID(50) per 0.1 ml or greater. The virus could be detected in the saliva as early as 2 min after the initiation of the viremia. The recovered virus was shown to be the same as the injected virus by serological identification of the recovered virus with neutralizing antibody for Coxsackie B-1 virus. These results suggest that virus may be transmitted to other animals in the saliva of animals who are in the viremic phase of infection without infection of the oropharyngeal tissues.

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