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Antioxidants in skeletal muscle physiology, a radically different approach.
2015
Regular physical exercise has many health benefits (1). Paradoxically, it is also clear that contracting skeletal muscles generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) and that prolonged and intense exercise can result in oxidative damage to cellular constituents (2-4). Reactive oxygen species production is dependent on the intensity of the exercise with higher amount of ROS generated by strenuous exercise (5, 6). Antioxidants may reduce the adverse effects of exercise-induced ROS (2-4). However, ROS are not only toxic but rather play an important role in cell signalling and in the regulation of gene expression (7, 8) and force production in skeletal muscle (9). Thus, we have recently raised quest…
Wastewater COD characterization: analysis of respirometric and physical-chemical methods for determining biodegradable organic matter fractions
2010
BACKGROUND: In this work, a comprehensive study of the respirometric and physical–chemical methods has been performed to evaluate the information provided by these two methodologies in order to assess the biodegradable organic matter fractions of wastewater. RESULTS: First, an analysis was performed of the influence of the initial substrate on biomass ratio (F0/X0) in the assessment of readily biodegradable organic matter, SS, through respirometric experiments. In order to achieve an adequate assessment of the SS component, similar conditions (given by the initial F0/X0 ratio) must be employed in experiments that are carried to determine SS and YH (heterotrophic yield). Second, a comparativ…
Senescence and p130/Rbl2: a new beginning to the end.
2009
Senescence is the process of cellular aging dependent on the normal physiological functions of non-immortalized cells. With increasing data being uncovered in this field, the complex molecular web regulating senescence is gradually being unraveled. Recent studies have suggested two main phases of senescence, the triggering of senescence and the maintenance of senescence. Each has been supported by data implying precise roles for DNA methyltransferases, reactive oxygen species and other factors. We will first summarize the data supporting these claims and then highlight the specific role that we hypothesize that p130/Rbl2 plays in the modulation of the senescence process.
Watching the photo-oxidation of a single aromatic hydrocarbon molecule
2001
International audience; The photooxidation of single dye molecules (see scheme) can be followed by confocal fluorescence microscopy. The self-sensitized reaction with singlet oxygen leads to a suite of products, which may be differentiated spectrally. Tentative structures for certain photoproducts have been obtained from quantum-chemical calculations.
A new experimental protocol for intrazeolite photooxidations. The first product-based estimate of an upper limit for the intrazeolite singlet oxygen …
2002
The intrazeolite photooxidations of several alkenes have been examined in hexane and in perfluorohexane slurries. The ability of perfluorohexane to increase the affinity of alkenes for the interior of the zeolite was documented. The nearly identical reaction rates in the two slurry solvents are attributed to a leveling of the singlet oxygen lifetime by the zeolite framework. A consideration of the rates of the various intrazeolite processes was used to estimate an upper limit for the intrazeolite lifetime of singlet oxygen.
Oxidative DNA Damage Profiles in Mammalian Cells
1997
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are formed inside cells not only under the influence of exogenous agents (visible light, ionizing radiation, and many oxidants such as peroxides or quinones), but also under normal (physiological) conditions as byproducts of oxygen metabolism and other cellular redox reactions (Pryor 1986; Halliwell and Gutteridge 1986; Sies 1986; Clayson et al. 1994). ROS such as hydroxyl radicals and singlet oxygen are a serious threat to the integrity of the cellular genome, since they efficiently react with DNA to generate many types of DNA modifications, at least some of which are pre- mutagenic (Breimer 1990; Halliwell and Aruoma 1991; Epe 1991; Feig et al. 1994). Steady-…
A Novel Zeolite-Induced Population of a Planar Viologen Conformation. New Viologen Charge Transfer Complexes and Alkene/Viologen/Zeolite Arrays
2004
A rare example of a novel zeolite-induced conformational change and a mechanism for this process are suggested in order to rationalize an unexpected spontaneous intrazeolite reduction observed during preparation of a new viologen (MQ2+)-doped zeolite (NaY). In addition, the formations of six new alkene/viologen/ zeolite charge transfer (CT) arrays using NaMQY and the previously reported NaMVY are also reported. The binding constants between MQ2+ and MV2+ and 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene (TME) were determined using the Benesi-Hildebrand approach, and the stabilities of these CT complexes are compared to their intrazeolite analogue.
Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress in Diabetes
2014
Abstract Diabetes is a multifactorial disease associated with serious comorbidities. This condition has been related to oxidative stress and, as a consequence, to overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are known to be produced by different sources in diabetes. Excessive production of ROS can be harmful, making antioxidant defenses of vital importance. Dietary antioxidants, such as vitamin E or vitamin C, polyphenols and flavonoids have been used to modulate the oxidative stress created in diabetes, producing contradictory results in clinical trials, perhaps as a consequence of the targets selected and/or the design of the studies in question. This chapter considers the proce…
Exercise as an antioxidant: it up-regulates important enzymes for cell adaptations to exercise
2006
Abstract Aims. – To assess the role of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cell signalling and in the regulation of gene expression. Methods. – Exercise causes oxidative stress only when exhaustive. Strenuous exercise causes oxidation of glutathione, release of cytosolic enzymes, and other signs of cell damage. We have tested this hypothesis by studying the effect of inhibition of ROS production by allopurinol (an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase, a free radical generating enzyme) on cell signalling pathways in marathon runners and in rats submitted to exhaustive exercise by running on a treadmill. Results. – Exercise caused an activation of NF-κB in lymphocytes from marathon runners which wa…
Oxygen Radical Scavengers
2010
The myocardium can tolerate only relatively short periods of total myocardial ischemia without myocardial cell death. Following short ischemic periods, ischemic damage is reversible by reperfusion. However, with increasing duration and severity of ischemia, the damage inflicted to cardiomyocytes following reperfusion becomes irreversible. The combined pathologic events in the myocardium that follow a critical period of ischemia and leading to either reversible or irreversible damage to both cardiomyocytes and cardiac microvasculature is known as ischemia-reperfusion injury (Goldhaber and Weiss 1992).