Toxic granulation

Host cells are killed by cytotoxic T-ceUs or natural kiUer cells by the processes of necrosis or apoptosis. Necrosis leads to release of cell contents that can sufficiently disturb the tissue to initiate a local inflammatory response. However, the cell killed by apoptosis is then phagocytosed, which does not cause local disturbance, so that inflammation does not occur (Chapter 20). Apoptosis is achieved by two mechanisms release of toxic granules by the cytotoxic cells or by the binding of the cytotoxic ceU to the host ceU, via its death receptor protein (see below). 

WBC-5300, left shift, toxic granulation (indicates possible infection)... 

Safety is assessed by subjecting the antioxidant to a series of animal toxicity tests, eg, oral, inhalation, eye, and skin tests. Mutagenicity tests are also carried out to determine possible or potential carcinogenicity. Stabilizers are being granulated and Hquid products are receiving greater acceptance to minimize the inhalation of dust and to improve flow characteristics. 

CBs have been widely used in agriculture as insecticides, molluskicides, and aca-ricides. They have been applied as sprays and as granules or pellets. Highly toxic compounds, such as aldicarb and carbofuran, are usually only available as granules. 

Rossi AD, Viviani B, Zhivotovsky B, Manzo L, Orrenius S, Vahter M, Nicotera P. 1997. Inorganic mercury modifies Ca + signal, triggers apoptosis and potentiates NMDA toxicity in cerebellar granule neurons. Cell Death Differentiation 4 317-324. 

Figure 4 Stabilized bromine antimicrobials are produced by eosinophils, a type of mammalian white blood cell. Bacteria are captured by phagocytosis and contained intracellularly within vesicles called phagosomes. Granules release cationic surfactants, lytic enzymes, and eosinophil peroxidase into the phagosome in a process known as degranulation. Eosinophil peroxidase, an enzyme that is structurally similar to the bromoperoxidases found in seaweed (Figure I), selectively catalyzes oxidation of bromide to hypobromite by reducing hydrogen peroxide to water. The hypobromite immediately reacts with nitrogenous stabilizers such as aminoethanesulfonic acid (taurine) to form more effective and less toxic antimicrobial agents.

The recruitment of zinc for a structural role, or to activate an enzyme, has been observed. The zinc ion induces the dimerization of human growth hormone (hGH), with two Zn ions associated per dimer of hGH. This is confirmed by replacement of possible zinc binding residues resulting in weakened binding of the zinc ion. Formation of a zinc-hGH dimeric complex may be important for storage of hGH in secretory granules.975 In a toxic role, anthrax lethal factor is one of the three components of the secreted toxin and is a zinc-dependent protease that cleaves a protein kinase and causes lysis of macrophages.976... 

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