PON1 paraoxonase activity is reduced during HDL oxidation and is an indicator of HDL antioxidant capacity.

abstract：:Creatol (CTL) is a product resulting from the reaction of creatinine (Cr) with the hydroxyl radical and is identified as a precursor of methylguanidine (MG), a uremic toxin. In this study, we investigated serum CTL levels together with those of Cr and MG in 66 patients who were on maintenance hemodialysis (HD). Prior ...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Tomida C,Aoyagi K,Nagase S,Gotoh M,Yamagata K,Takemura K,Koyama A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After minimal sample preparation, two different HPLC methodologies, one based on a single gradient reversed-phase HPLC step, the other on multiple HPLC runs each optimised for specific components, were used to investigate the composition of flavonoids and phenolic acids in apple and tomato juices. The principal compon...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Bremner PD,Blacklock CJ,Paganga G,Mullen W,Rice-Evans CA,Crozier A

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of taurine is high in the lens. However, its function therein remains unknown. Studies from other tissues suggest that in addition to several other modes of action, it acts as an antioxidant. We therefore hypothesize that taurine may be a part of the antioxidant defense mechanisms involved in protect...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Devamanoharan PS,Ali AH,Varma SD

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the protective effect of esculetin (ES) in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury (ALI) and the lung epithelial A549 cells. Mice were intragastrically administered with ES (20 and 40 mg/kg) 1 h prior to LPS challenge. ES pretreatment at doses of 20 and 40...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Chen T,Guo Q,Wang H,Zhang H,Wang C,Zhang P,Meng S,Li Y,Ji H,Yan T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a convincing body of evidence that oxidative stress is involved in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis. The effects of different radical scavengers suggested that reactive oxygen metabolites are generated at very early stage of disease and contribute to amplify the pancreatic damage. Oxidative stress is al...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Closa D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An involvement of oxidative stress (OS) was found in recent studies of Sjøgren's syndrome (SS) that reported significant changes in protein oxidation, myeloperoxidase activity, TNF-α, nitrotyrosine, and GSH levels in plasma from SS patients. Excess levels of OS markers, as oxidative DNA damage and propanoyl-lysine, we...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Pagano G,Castello G,Pallardó FV

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G72 has been characterised as a susceptibility gene that can have wide-ranging effects in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including schizophrenia and major depression. Indeed, its product, pLG72, is a potential serum biomarker for schizophrenia. Previous transcriptomic and biochemical studies have indicated th...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Wang M,Saw HP,Cui FF,Lin SY,Chang HT,Chiu CD

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reperfusion injury of the liver occurs in liver transplantation and in major hepatectomies. It triggers a severe oxidative stress that leads to increased lipid peroxidation. In our study we examined the effect of parenteral supranutritional administration of alpha-tocopherol, a vitamin that plays a key role in the end...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Giakoustidis D,Kontos N,Iliadis S,Papageorgiou G,Tsantilas D,Spyridis C,Papazoglou K,Botsoglou N,Dimitriadou A,Giakoustidis E

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione plays a central role in the maintenance of cellular antioxidant defense. The alterations in the glutathione and associated recyclic enzymes caused by both exercise training and ethanol are well documented; however, their interactive effects with age are not well understood. Therefore, the influence of agei...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Kakarla P,Kesireddy S,Christiaan L

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available data on the absorption, metabolism and pharmacokinetics of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) are reviewed in this paper. CoQ10 has a fundamental role in cellular bioenergetics. CoQ10 is also an important antioxidant. Because of its hydrophobicity and large molecular weight, absorption of dietary CoQ10 is slow and limited...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Bhagavan HN,Chopra RK

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose at pathophysiological concentrations was able to accelerate copper-induced oxidation of isolated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and whole serum. The efficiency of glucose was favored under the following circumstances: (a) when LDL oxidation was induced by low copper concentration, (b) when LDL was partly oxidiz...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Leoni V,Albertini R,Passi A,Abuja PM,Borroni P,D'Eril GM,De Luca G

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diosgenin possesses anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. Activated neutrophils produce high concentrations of the superoxide anion which is involved in the pathophysiology of inflammation-related diseases and cancer. In the present study, the inhibitory effect and possible mechanisms of diosgenin on superoxide...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Lin Y,Jia R,Liu Y,Gao Y,Zeng X,Kou J,Yu B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized low density lipoprotein (LDL) plays an important role in atherogenesis. It is generally thought that LDL is mainly oxidized in the intima of vessel walls, surrounded by hydrophilic antioxidants and proteins such as albumin. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible interrelationships between oxida...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Carbonneau MA,Cartron E,Leger CL,Senglat C,Descomps B

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the synthesis and characterisation of some novel hybrid molecules which contains in the same molecule a free radical moiety of hydrazyl type and a spin-trap moiety of nitrone type. The new compounds synthesized have multiple and easy to follow spectroscopic properties, making them useful as sensors...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Ionita P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for prognosis after liver resection. In previous work, we found a pro-apoptotic state in the diabetic rat liver. In this work, this was also observed 1 hour post-partial hepatectomy (PH) and resulted in a deficient regenerative response 24 hours post-PH. Treatment with insulin and/or...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Francés DE,Ronco MT,Ingaramo PI,Monti JA,Pisani GB,Parody JP,Pellegrino JM,Carrillo MC,Martín-Sanz P,Carnovale CE

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of paraquat generates oxygen radicals. Paraquat has thus been suggested as a model compound to induce oxidative damage to DNA, lipids and proteins in different cells and tissues, although experimental data are inconsistent. In order to explore the possibilities for an animal model of oxidative DNA damag...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Sørensen M,Loft S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite anion is a reactive and short-lived species and its formation in vivo has been implicated in several human diseases. In view of the potential usefulness of compounds that can protect against peroxynitrite or their reactive intermediates, a study focused on flavonoid compounds was carried out. Since the r...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Santos MR,Mira L

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress may initiate lipid peroxidation that generates ethane. Ethane, at low concentrations, is eliminated by pulmonary exhalation. Previous methods have not allowed frequent sampling, thus ethane kinetics has not been studied in man. A validated method over the range 3.8-100,000 ppb with a limit of quantita...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Dale O,Bergum H,Lund T,Nilsen T,Aadahl P,Stenseth R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cells, NADH and NADPH are mainly bound to dehydrogenases such as lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). In cell-free systems, the binary LDH-NADH complex has been demonstrated to produce reactive oxygen species via a chain oxidation of NADH initiated and propagated by superoxide. We studied here whether this chain radical re...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Petrat F,Bramey T,Kirsch M,De Groot H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of microRNAs (miRNA) is influenced by various stimuli, including environmental stresses. We hypothesized that reactive oxygen species (ROS)-associated stress could regulate macrophage miRNA synthesis. miRNAs undergo unique steps of maturation processing through either one of two pathways of cytoplasmic ...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Ranjan R,Lee YG,Karpurapu M,Syed MA,Chung S,Deng J,Jeong JJ,Zhao G,Xiao L,Sadikot RT,Weiss MJ,Christman JW,Park GY

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterised as a provoked inflammatory response and oxidative stress along with amyloid β peptide (Aβ) deposition and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, and effective treatment is greatly needed. Molecular hydrogen, which has been proposed to be an antioxidant that selectively reduces ...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Hou C,Peng Y,Qin C,Fan F,Liu J,Long J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can trigger hydroxyl radical formation in copper contaminated household drinking water. We report here that the capacity of ascorbic acid to catalyze hydroxyl radical generation in the drinking water samples is strongly dependent on the bicarbonate concentration ...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Jansson PJ,Asplund KU,Mäkelä JC,Lindqvist C,Nordström T

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) reproduces a multiple sclerosis (MS)-like experimental model. The main objective was to evaluate the effect of extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields (EL-EMF) application, like a paradigm of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the development of EAE. Rats ...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Medina-Fernandez FJ,Escribano BM,Agüera E,Aguilar-Luque M,Feijoo M,Luque E,Garcia-Maceira FI,Pascual-Leone A,Drucker-Colin R,Tunez I

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APE1/Ref-1, the mammalian ortholog of E. coli Xth, and a multifunctional protein possessing both DNA repair and transcriptional regulatory activities, has dual role in controlling cellular response to oxidative stress. It is rate-limiting in repair of oxidative DNA damage including strand breaks and also has co-transc...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Fantini D,Vascotto C,Deganuto M,Bivi N,Gustincich S,Marcon G,Quadrifoglio F,Damante G,Bhakat KK,Mitra S,Tell G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae acts as a peroxidase but requires a NADPH-dependent thioredoxin system and was named thioredoxin peroxidase (TPx). The role of TPx in aging of stationary cultures of S. cerevisiae was investigated in a wild-type strain and a mutant yeast strain in which the tsa gene that...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Lee JH,Park JW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine whether hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) modulate the NO production via iNOS in adipocytes stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (L) and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (T). Well-differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes significantly produced NO by LT-treatment. Pre-...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Araki S,Dobashi K,Asayama K,Shirahata A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of experimental evidence suggests that the oxidative neurotoxicity of hemoglobin A may contribute to neuronal loss after CNS hemorrhage. Several hemoglobin variants, including hemoglobin S, are more potent oxidants in cell-free systems. However, despite the increased incidence of hemorrhagic stroke asso...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Vanderveldt GM,Regan RF

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of 5-lipoxygenase and myeloperoxidase activities has not been extensively studied among young male smokers. Leukotriene B(4), 20-hydroxy-leukotriene B(4), 20-carboxy-leukotriene B(4) and 3-chlorotyrosine were measured in plasma and urinary samples of young male smokers at 8 hours following cigarette a...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Loke WM,Lam KM,Chong WL,Chew SE,Quek AM,Lim ECh,Seet RC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:India, resembling other developing nations, is confronting a hastening demographic switch to non-communicable diseases. Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) constitute a varied heterogeneous group of disorders with variable clinical appearance, primarily in the pediatric populace. Congenital deformities and genetic disor...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Ray SK,Mukherjee S

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:During the early postimplantation period, rodent embryos survive in a relatively anaerobic environment in utero and are vulnerable to a high oxygen pressure. They become resistant to oxygen stress when they are exposed to a higher oxygen pressure after the uteroplacental circulation is established. However, it is unkn...

journal_title：Free radical research

authors： Kobayashi-Miura M,Nakamura H,Yodoi J,Shiota K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00