Protein Information

Name ornithine decarboxylase
Synonyms ODC; ODC 1; ODC 2; ODC1; ODC1 protein; ODC2; ODCP; Ornithine decarboxylase…

Compound Information

Name mirex
CAS

Reference List

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2283661 Mitra A, Richards I, Kitchin K, Conolly R, Kulkarni AP: Mirex induces ornithine decarboxylase in female rat liver. . J Biochem Toxicol. 1990 Summer;5(2):119-24.

Ornithine decarboxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in polyamine synthesis, was significantly induced in female rat liver following oral administration of the pesticide mirex.
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3789152 Yarbrough JD, Grimley JM, Karl PI: The relationship of ornithine decarboxylase and thymidine kinase to mirex-induced liver growth. Am J Physiol. 1986 Dec;251(6 Pt 1):G859-65.
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7871547 Dwivedi C, Tabbert J: Effects of methoxychlor on skin tumor development. Toxicol Lett. 1994 Dec;74(3):235-40.

Mirex, an organochlorine pesticide has been shown to be a tumor promoter in mouse skin.
In the present study, the effects of methoxychlor, a commonly used organochlorine pesticide, on the development of papillomas in 7,12-dimethylbenz [a] anthracene (DMBA)-initiated mouse skin and induction of mouse epidermal ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity were investigated and compared with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), a well-known tumor promoter.
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7903485 Kitchin KT, Brown JL, Kulkarni AP: Predicting rodent carcinogenicity of halogenated hydrocarbons by in vivo biochemical parameters. Teratog Carcinog Mutagen. 1993;13(4):167-84.

The effects of these 40 chemicals on four biochemical assays [hepatic DNA damage by alkaline elution (DD), hepatic ornithine decarboxylase activity (ODC), serum alanine aminotransferase activity (ALT), and hepatic cytochrome P-450 content (P450)] were determined.
For predicting the carcinogenicity of the most difficult halogenated hydrocarbons (Ames and SA negative chemicals), TS was capable of successfully predicting the carcinogenicity of 8 (carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane, kepone, mirex, monuron, p,p'-DDE, and 2,4,6-trichlorophenol) out of 16 of these non-DNA-reactive halogenated hydrocarbon carcinogens.
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1732051 Moser GJ, Meyer SA, Smart RC: The chlorinated pesticide mirex is a novel nonphorbol ester-type tumor promoter in mouse skin. Cancer Res. 1992 Feb 1;52(3):631-6.

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8013418 Meyer SA, Moser GJ, Monteiro-Riviere NA, Smart RC: Minimal role of enhanced cell proliferation in skin tumor promotion by mirex: a nonphorbol ester-type promoter. Environ Health Perspect. 1993 Dec;101 Suppl 5:265-9.

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6838646 Bulger WH, Kupfer D: Effect of xenobiotic estrogens and structurally related compounds on 2-hydroxylation of estradiol and on other monooxygenase activities in rat liver. Biochem Pharmacol. 1983 Mar 15;32(6):1005-10.


Administration of Kepone (estrogenic) and Mirex (nonestrogenic), both inducers of hepatic monooxygenase, also increased 2-hydroxylation of estradiol.
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