Drug Residues in Foods of Animal Origin and Their Impact on Human Health: Review

The safety of human food is threatened by various agents including pathogenic microorganisms, and antimicrobial agents. Antibiotics are natural products of a micro-organism, or similar semi-synthetic products that inhibit the growth or destroy microorganisms. Residues of veterinary medicines are defined as pharmacologically active substances, principles, or degradation products and their metabolites, which remain in foodstuffs obtained from animals that have been administered the veterinary medicine. The most common causes for the presence of antibiotic residues in food of animal origin are violation of withdrawal periods, overdosing of antibiotics and use of inaccurate routes of administration of drugs. Drug residues concentrations vary from tissue to tissue and are generally observed to be higher in tissues of storage such as body fat or in organs that actively metabolize and excrete them. Probably the most common way milk is contaminated by penicillin is through intra-mammary infusion of the drug in the treatment of mastitis. The presence of antibiotics or their metabolites in food is potentially hazardous to health as it may cause allergic reactions in people and antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms. Some antibiotics like streptomycin, neomycin and gentamicin has been reported to cause damage to the kidney and to hearing. Allergic reaction to the human body mostly resulted from β-Lactam antibiotics. Anaphylactic reactions are reported to result from consumption of beef or pork containing penicillin. Drugs in which their residues induce cancer in humans or consumers are: nitrofurans, nitroimdazoles, etc. Antibiotics are invariably administered to dairy cattle, but their indiscriminate use, without adequate technical and veterinary control, can lead to a series of negative consequences at all levels of the dairy productive chain. Many antibacterial and anticoccidial drugs are licensed for use in poultry for treatment of enteric and respiratory disease. Potential adverse effects of drugs that appear as residues in food animals are: carcinogenic, allergic, toxic, neurologic disorder and microbiological effects. Keywords: Drugs, Drug residue, Food, Human DOI: 10.7176/FSQM/108-02 Publication date:May 31st 202

Unveiling interactions between DNA and cytotoxic 2-arylpiperidinyl-1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives: A combined electrochemical and computational study

Indexación: Scopus.Three 2-arylpiperidinyl-1,4-naphthoquinone derivatives were synthesized and evaluated in vitro to determine their cytotoxicity on cancer and normal cell lines. In order to establish their possible action mechanism, the electrochemical behaviour of these quinones was examined using cyclic voltammetry (CV) as technique by using a three-electrode setup: a glassy carbon, Ag/AgCl (in 3 M KCl), and platinum wire as working, reference, and counter electrodes, respectively. Kinetic studies were done to determine the control of the reduction reaction and the number of transferred electrons in the process. Furthermore, the addition of dsDNA to the quinone solutions allowed for the observation of an interaction between each quinone and dsDNA as the current-peaks became lower in presence of dsDNA. Otherwise, motivated to support the aforementioned results, electronic structure calculations at the TPSS-D3/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory were carried out in order to find the most favourable noncovalently bonded complexes between quinones and DNA. Noncovalent complexes formed between DNA and 2-arylpiperidinyl-1,4-naphthoquinones and stabilized by π-stacking interactions along with the well-known hydrogen-bonded complexes were found, with the former being more stable than the latter. These results suggest that the intercalation of these quinone derivatives in DNA is the most likely action mechanism. © 2018 King Saud Universityhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878535218300893?via%3Dihu

Eliminasi Carnation Mottle Virus Menggunakan Senyawa Antiviral Pada Kultur Jaringan Anyelir (Dianthus Caryophyllus L.)

Carnation mottle virus (CarMV) merupakan salah satu virus penting pada tanaman anyelir dan semua kultivar anyelir yang ditanam di Jawa Barat terinfeksi oleh virus ini. Penelitian bertujuan mendapatkan metode eliminasi CarMV yang efektif untuk membebaskan planlet anyelir dari virus. Inisiasi eksplant terinfeksi dilakukan pada media MSO dan perbanyakan planlet dilakukan pada media perbanyakan MS yang mengandung 1,0 ppm BA dan 0,5 ppm kinetin (MSZ). Metode eliminasi CarMV yang diuji terdiri atas perlakuan 2-thiourasil dan amantadin dengan konsentrasi masing-masing 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, dan 30 ppm, dan ribavirin 5 ppm sebagai pembanding. Tunas apikal planlet ditanam pada media perlakuan (MSZA). Setelah tunas tumbuh, meristem terminal diambil 0,5 mm untuk ditanam pada media MSZ. Kultur meristem terminal dari planlet pada perlakuan 2- thiourasil menghasilkan planlet bebas virus sebesar 0 – 57%. Konsentrasi 2-thiourasil 25 ppm menghasilkan persentase planlet bebas virus tertinggi, namun perlakuan tersebut toksik pada tanaman. Perlakuan amantadin menghasilkan 25,0 – 54,55% planlet bebas virus. Di antara perlakuan yang diuji, perlakuan antiviral amantadin dengan konsentrasi 5 – 30 ppm lebih optimal menghasilkan planlet anyelir bebas CarMV dan tidak toksik terhadap tanaman. Perlakuan amantadin 5 – 20 ppm mampu menghambat virus lebih tinggi dibandingkan perlakuan 2-thiourasil pada konsentrasi yang sama. Amantadin 5 – 30 ppm menghasilkan tingkat penghambatan virus sebesar 42,94 – 59,57%, sedangkan 2-thiourasil sebesar -8,18 – 63,03%. Senyawa 2-thiourasil dan amantadin berpotensi sebagai agen antiviral untuk mendapatkan tanaman anyelir bebas CarMV

Multijet production in neutral current deep inelastic scattering at HERA and determination of alpha_s

Multijet production rates in neutral current deep inelastic scattering have been measured in the range of exchanged boson virtualities 10 < Q2 < 5000 GeV2. The data were taken at the ep collider HERA with centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 318 GeV using the ZEUS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 82.2 pb-1. Jets were identified in the Breit frame using the k_T cluster algorithm in the longitudinally invariant inclusive mode. Measurements of differential dijet and trijet cross sections are presented as functions of jet transverse energy E_{T,B}{jet}, pseudorapidity eta_{LAB}{jet} and Q2 with E_{T,B}{jet} > 5 GeV and -1 < eta_{LAB}{jet} < 2.5. Next-to-leading-order QCD calculations describe the data well. The value of the strong coupling constant alpha_s(M_Z), determined from the ratio of the trijet to dijet cross sections, is alpha_s(M_Z) = 0.1179 pm 0.0013(stat.) {+0.0028}_{-0.0046}(exp.) {+0.0064}_{-0.0046}(th.)Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure

Measurement of beauty production in deep inelastic scattering at HERA

The beauty production cross section for deep inelastic scattering events with at least one hard jet in the Breit frame together with a muon has been measured, for photon virtualities Q^2 > 2 GeV^2, with the ZEUS detector at HERA using integrated luminosity of 72 pb^-1. The total visible cross section is sigma_b-bbar (ep -> e jet mu X) = 40.9 +- 5.7 (stat.) +6.0 -4.4 (syst.) pb. The next-to-leading order QCD prediction lies about 2.5 standard deviations below the data. The differential cross sections are in general consistent with the NLO QCD predictions; however at low values of Q^2, Bjorken x, and muon transverse momentum, and high values of jet transverse energy and muon pseudorapidity, the prediction is about two standard deviations below the data.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figure

Importance of a measurement of F(L)(X,Q**2) at HERA.

I investigate what a direct measurement of the longitudinal structure function FL(x,Q2) could teach us about the structure of the proton and the best way in which to use perturbative QCD for structure functions. I assume HERA running at a lowered beam energy for approximately 4-5 months and examine how well the measurement could distinguish between different theoretical approaches. I conclude that such a measurement would provide useful information on how to calculate structure functions and parton distributions at small x