Target organ identification of jellyfish envenomation using systemic and integrative analyses in anesthetized dogs
- Authors
- Kang, Changkeun; Kim, Young Ki; Lee, Hyunkyoung; Cha, Mijin; Sohn, Eun-Tae; Jung, Eun-Sun; Song, Chiyoun; Kim, Minkyung; Lee, Hee Chun; Kim, Jong-Shu; Hwang, Jin-Yong; Yoon, Won Duk; Kim, Euikyung
- Issue Date
- Sep-2011
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Keywords
- Nemopilema nomurai; Jellyfish; Venom; Cardiovascular; Hematology; Dog
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL METHODS, v.64, no.2, pp.173 - 179
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL METHODS
- Volume
- 64
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 173
- End Page
- 179
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gnu/handle/sw.gnu/23588
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.vascn.2011.07.004
- ISSN
- 1056-8719
- Abstract
- Proper treatment of jellyfish envenomed patients can be successfully achieved only from an understanding of the overall functional changes and alterations in physiological parameters under its envenomation. The majority of previous investigations on jellyfish venoms have covered only a couple of parameters at a time. Unlike most other fragmentary jellyfish studies, we employed an integrative toxicological approach, including hemodynamics, clinical chemistry and hematology analyses, using N. nomurai jellyfish venom (NnV) in dogs. After the baseline measurements for mean arterial pressure (MAP), cardiac output (CO) and heart rate (HR), NnV was intravenously administered to the dogs at doses of 0.1 or 0.3 mg/kg body weight. The dogs showed significant decreases in MAP (-27.4 +/- 3.7 and -48.1 +/- 9.9 mm Hg), CO (-1.1 +/- 0.1 L/min and 1.0 +/- 0.2 L/min), and HR (-45 +/- 0.3 and -9.9 +/- 3.1 beats/min) comparing with the respective baseline controls. The onset of systemic hypotension and bradycardia occurred within 1 min of NnV injection and they lasted for 1-35 min, depending on the NnV doses. Interestingly, serum biochemical analyses of envenomed dogs exhibited dramatic increases of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), creatine phosphokinase (CPK), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), indicating its possible target organs. In conclusion, we have demonstrated simultaneously, for the first time, the multiple organ toxicities (cardiotoxic, myotoxic and hepatotoxic) of a scyphozoan jellyfish venom. Based on these results, an integrative toxinological approach using dogs appears to be effective in predicting jellyfish venom toxicities and designing their therapeutic strategies. We expect this method can be applied to other jellyfish venom research as well. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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