A characterization of amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity in F344 rats and identification of surfactant protein-D as a potential biomarker for the development of the …

MD Taylor, K Van Dyke, LL Bowman, PR Miles… - Toxicology and applied …, 2000 - Elsevier
Amiodarone (AD) is gaining support as a first-line antiarrhythmic drug despite its potentially
fatal pulmonary toxicity involving inflammation and fibrosis. The goals of this study were to …

Altered surfactant homeostasis and alveolar epithelial cell stress in amiodarone-induced lung fibrosis

P Mahavadi, I Henneke, C Ruppert… - Toxicological …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Amiodarone (AD) is a highly efficient antiarrhythmic drug with potentially serious side effects.
Severe pulmonary toxicity is reported in patients receiving AD even at low doses and may …

Intratracheal amiodarone administration to F344 rats directly damages lung airway and parenchymal cells

MD Taylor, JM Antonini, JR Roberts, SS Leonard… - Toxicology and applied …, 2003 - Elsevier
Amiodarone (AD) is gaining support as a first-line antiarrhythmic drug despite its potentially
fatal pulmonary toxicity involving inflammation and fibrosis. We previously reported a model …

Amiodarone-induced pulmonary inflammation

BD Wilson, CE Clarkson, ML Lippmann - Am Rev Respir Dis, 1991 - atsjournals.org
Toinvestigate the hypotheses that amiodarone-induced pulmonary inflammation may be
related to direct drug toxicity, groups of 10or more Wistar rats were fed amiodarone by …

Pulmonary responses to amiodarone in hamsters: comparison of intratracheal and oral administrations

TL Blake, MJ Reasor - Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 1995 - Elsevier
Amiodarone (AD) has been shown to produce a transient pulmonary fibrosis in hamsters
after intratracheal (it) instillation. The goal of this study was to examine bronchoalveolar …

Direct mitochondrial dysfunction precedes reactive oxygen species production in amiodarone-induced toxicity in human peripheral lung epithelial HPL1A cells

AC Nicolescu, Y Ji, JL Comeau, BC Hill… - Toxicology and applied …, 2008 - Elsevier
Amiodarone (AM), a drug used in the treatment of cardiac dysrrhythmias, can produce
severe pulmonary adverse effects, including fibrosis. Although the pathogenesis of AM …

Acute pulmonary inflammation in hamsters following intratracheal administration of amiodarone

TL Blake, MJ Reasor - Inflammation, 1995 - Springer
The use of the antiarrythmic drug amiodarone (AD) has been limited by the propensity of the
drug to cause severe lung damage. AD has been shown to produce a transient pulmonary …

Cytotoxic interaction between amiodarone and desethylamiodarone in human peripheral lung epithelial cells

FC Roth, JE Mulder, JF Brien, T Takahashi… - Chemico-biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
The potent and efficacious anti-dysrhythmic agent amiodarone (AM) can cause potentially
life-threatening lung damage (amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity; AIPT), which is …

Amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity in Fischer rats: release of tumor necrosis factor alpha and transforming growth factor beta by pulmonary alveolar …

PG Reinhart, CG Gairola - Journal of toxicology and environmental …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic drug with numerous side effects, the most serious being the
development of pulmonary toxicity. We have previously reported that a single intratra cheal …

Role of oxidative stress in amiodarone-induced toxicity

JSM Sarma, H Pei… - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The clinical usefulness of amiodarone for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
is limited by multiorgan toxicity, especially pulmonary and hepatic. There are conflicting …