Historically, antidotal potencies of cyanide antagonists were measured as increases in the experimental LD(50) for cyanide elicited by the antidotes. This required the use of high doses of cyanide following pre-treatment with the putative antidote. Since IACUC guidelines at our institutions strongly discourage LD(50) determinations: we developed a new test paradigm that allowed for maximal surv...

cyanide is one of the major environmental pollutants in industrial wastewater. entrance of it to existence environmental contains very health hazardous. the cyanide can be removed from aqueous solutions in many ways, but most of these methods are expensive. in the present study, novel magnetic nanoparticle modified with a polydentate ligand is used to remove cyanide. the procedure is efficient ...

FERNANDEZ F., ADOLFO, JORGE GONZALEZ-QUINTANA, AND A~AURICIO RUSSEK. E$ect of low concentrations of cyanide on Qo2 of tissue slices. Am. J. Physiol. 204(2) : 314-316. 1 g63.The oxygen consumption of brain, liver, and kidney slices measured in the Warburg apparatus was not significantly depressed by concentrations of sodium cyanide of 0.2, 0.5, and 2 pg/ml. This last concentration is considered ...

Cyanogenic glucosides are present in several crop plants and can pose a significant problem for human and animal consumption, because of their ability to release toxic hydrogen cyanide. Sorghum bicolor L. contains the cyanogenic glucoside dhurrin. A qualitative biochemical screen of the M2 population derived from EMS treatment of sorghum seeds, followed by the reverse genetic technique of Targe...

1. The effects of KCN and iron salts on oxygen consumption has been studied in the cell of Paramecium caudatum by manometric methods. 2. KCN solutions of strengths from M/200 to M/10,000 have been shown to produce no decrease in oxygen consumption, but have in most cases produced a very slight increase in the respiration rate. 3. The pH values were found to have little or no effect on these res...

addition of potassium cyanide to a mixture of schiff base and lithium perchlorate afforded a-aminonitriles in high yields. addition of potassium cyanide to a methanolic solution of schiff base and phosphoric acid afforded a-aminonitriles. when the reaction mixture was refluxed it gave a-amino acids in high yields.

A purification procedure for flavohaemoglobin Hmp (NO oxygenase) is described that gives high yields of protein with equistoichiometric haem and FAD contents. H(2)O(2) accumulated on NADH oxidation by the purified protein and in cell extracts with elevated Hmp contents. H(2)O(2) probably arose by dismutation from superoxide, which was also detectable during oxygen reduction; water was not a pro...

Chill treatment of potato tubers for 8 days induced mitochondrial O2 consumption by cyanide-insensitive alternative oxidase (AOX). About half of the total O2 consumption in such mitochondria was found to be sensitive to salicylhydroxamate (SHAM), a known inhibitor of AOX activity. Addition of catalase to the reaction mixture of AOX during the reaction decreased the rate of SHAM-sensitive O2 con...

In this study the effects of paraquat on the aerobic metabolism and viability of isolated rabbit alveolar macrophages and lung fibroblasts were investigated, and compared with the effects of other known metabolic inhibitors, i.e. sodium fluoride (NaF) and potassium cyanide (KCN). The manometrically and polarographically determined endogenous oxygen consumption of lavaged alveolar macrophages co...

Ten bacterial strains that utilize cyanide (CN) as a nitrogen source were isolated from cassava factory wastewater after enrichment in a liquid media containing sodium cyanide (1 mM) and glucose (0.2% w/v). The strains could tolerate and grow in cyanide concentrations of up to 5 mM. Increased cyanide levels in the media caused an extension of lag phase in the bacterial growth indicating that th...