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4067835

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-1-15
pubmed:abstractText
The effects of toxic doses of various drugs and of food or water deprivation upon heart weights of mice were evaluated over a four day period to test the validity of the hypothesis that changes in cardiac weights are indicators of cardiotoxicity. Drugs included in the study were actinomycin-D, methotrexate, 5-fluorouracil, adriamycin, daunomycin, N-dimethyladriamycin, N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate, isoproterenol, atropine, and acetylsalicylic acid. Additional groups of mice served as vehicle controls, or were deprived of food or water for the duration of the experiment to control for the anorexia and dehydration accompanying treatment with antineoplastic drugs. Body weights were taken at the start of the experiment (day 0), day 2, and day 4 (just prior to sacrifice). Heart ventricle wet weights were determined immediately, and dry weights after thorough desiccation of the samples. Statistical evaluation of the weights revealed that there were no ventricular weight changes unique to any particular drug, and that decreases in heart weights correlated well with decreases in body weights, thereby reflecting the general toxicities of the drugs, including inanition, and not any specific cardiotoxicities.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0731-8898
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
57-68
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
The utility of changes in cardiac weight as an index of drug-induced cardiotoxicity.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article