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Workplace Health Promotion Program on Using Dietary Antioxidants (Anthocyanins) in Chemical Exposed Workers

2012

Abstract Workplace health promotion is a business management system that aims to promote and improve the health situations of all employees in a comprehensive and sustainable mode, and should be seen as an equal partner for occupational health and safety. Certain industrial hazards (in particular chemical agents) display oxidant capacity in the human body acting via oxidative stress, caused by a cellular excess of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. Species like superoxide and hydrogen peroxide are involved in protein kinase regulation, while nitric oxide and peroxynitrite inactivate phosphatases as well as activating kinases, which are key agents for translating signals of cell needs int…