Search results for "Heme oxygenase"
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Altered antioxidant-oxidant status in the aqueous humor and peripheral blood of patients with retinitis pigmentosa.
2013
Retinitis Pigmentosa is a common form of hereditary retinal degeneration constituting the largest Mendelian genetic cause of blindness in the developed world. It has been widely suggested that oxidative stress possibly contributes to its pathogenesis. We measured the levels of total antioxidant capacity, free nitrotyrosine, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) formation, extracellular superoxide dismutase (SOD3) activity, protein, metabolites of the nitric oxide/cyclic GMP pathway, heme oxygenase-I and inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in aqueous humor or/and peripheral blood from fifty-six patients with retinitis pigmentosa and sixty subjects without systemic or ocular …
Haem oxygenase-1 counteracts the effects of interleukin-1β on inflammatory and senescence markers in cartilage-subchondral bone explants from osteoar…
2011
IL (interleukin)-1β plays an important role in cartilage extracellular matrix degradation and bone resorption in OA (osteoarthritis) through the induction of degradative enzymes and pro-inflammatory mediators. In the present study, we have determined the consequences of HO-1 (haem oxygenase-1) induction on markers of inflammation and senescence in the functional unit cartilage–subchondral bone stimulated with IL-1β. Cartilage–subchondral bone specimens were obtained from the knees of osteoarthritic patients. Treatment with the HO-1 inducer CoPP (cobalt protoporphyrin IX) counteracted the stimulatory effects of IL-1β on IL-6, nitrite, PGE2 (prostaglandin E2), TGF (transforming growth factor)…
CO-releasing binuclear rhodium complexes as inhibitors of nitric oxide generation in stimulated macrophages.
2013
Nontoxic CO-releasing dirhodium complexes act as inhibitors of NO in stimulated macrophage cells, suggesting that novel antiinflammatory treatments could involve the use of these types of binuclear complexes.
Ex Vivo Tracking of Endogenous CO with a Ruthenium(II) Complex.
2017
[EN] A two-photon fluorescent probe based on a ruthenium(II) vinyl complex is capable of selectively detecting carbon monoxide in cells and ex vivo using mice with a subcutaneous air pouch as a model for inflammation. This probe combines highly selective and sensitive ex vivo detection of endogenous CO in a realistic model with facile, inexpensive synthesis, and displays many advantages over the widely used palladium-based systems.
''Deferoxamine blocks death induced by glutathione depletion in PC 12 cells''
2013
Chouraqui, E. | Leon, A. | Repesse, Y. | Prigent-Tessier, A. | Bouhallab, S. | Bougle, D. | Marie, C. | Duval, D.; International audience; ''The purpose of the present work was to investigate the mechanisms by which glutathione depletion induced by treatment with buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) led within 24-30 h to PC 12 cells apoptosis. Our results showed that treatment by relatively low concentrations (10-30 mu M) of deferoxamine (DFx), a natural iron-specific chelator, almost completely shielded the cells from BSO-induced toxicity and that DFx still remained protective when added up to 9-12 h after BSO treatment. On the other hand, phosphopeptides derived from milk casein and known to carr…
Dihydroquercetin (DHQ) induced HO-1 and NQO1 expression against oxidative stress through the Nrf2-dependent antioxidant pathway.
2013
Dihydroquercetin (DHQ) is a well-known antioxidant agent. In the present investigation, we reported for the first time that DHQ stimulates the expression of phase II detoxifying enzymes through the Nrf2-dependent signaling pathway. The IC50 values of DHQ for reduction of 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazol (DPPH), reducing power assay, lipid peroxidation assay, and xanthine oxidase inhibition were 5.96, 4.31, 2.03, and 13.24 μM, respectively. DHQ possessed considerable protective activity from oxidative DNA damage. A luciferase reporter assay also demonstrated that DHQ-activated signaling resulted in the increased transcriptional activity of Nrf2 through binding to the ARE (antioxidant response e…
Cadmium as a transcriptional modulator in human cells
2010
Cadmium (Cd) is an underground mineral widely used in the steel industry, in plastics, and as a component of batteries. It is an industrial and environmental pollutant released as an air contaminant from fertilizers and, more prominently, in the form of wastewater. Food, drinking water, and, mainly, inhalation of smoke from cigarettes are sources of daily exposure of humans to the heavy metal. Although Cd has no known useful function for humans as well as other organisms, it appears to evoke in cells a number of responses that involve not only death signaling but also protective reactions against the toxicity. This finding prompted a number of experimental studies aimed to elucidate the cel…
Heme oxygenase-1 induction modulates microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 expression and prostaglandin E2 production in osteoarthritic chondrocytes
2009
Pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) may participate in the pathogenesis of cartilage damage in osteoarthritis (OA) through the production of catabolic enzymes and inflammatory mediators. Induction of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) has previously been shown to exert anti-inflammatory effects in different cell types. We have investigated whether HO-1 induction may modify chondrocyte viability and the production of relevant mediators such as oxidative stress and prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) elicited by IL-1beta in OA chondrocytes. Chondrocytes were isolated from OA cartilage and used in primary culture. Cells were stimulated with IL-1beta in the absence or presence of the H…
Influence of oxygen tension on the anti-inflammatory and chondroprotective effects of heme oxygenase-1 in healthy and osteoarthritic human chondrocyt…
2012
s / Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 20 (2012) S54–S296 S136 their isolation. The absence of cross-reaction with the IIA isoform was established by ELISA andWB. In addition, the Saos-2 cell linewas chosen to test a possible labelling of other fibrillar procollagens, mainly type I, V and XI. In fact, this cell line is described to synthesize the (a1)I, (a2)I, (a1)V, (a2)V, (a1)XI and (a2)XI, but no (a3)XI chains. No signal was detected on WB of cellular extracts or conditioned media with anti-pNIIB52, whereas antibodies to the collagen I, V and XI triple-helical parts revealed indeed the presence of proforms of these collagens. Conclusions: Anti-pNIIB52 antibodies allow a very sensitive and spec…
Characterization of the Antioxidant Properties of Pentaerithrityl Tetranitrate (PETN)-Induction of the Intrinsic Antioxidative System Heme Oxygenase-…
2009
Organic nitrates are among the oldest and yet most commonly employed drugs in the chronic therapy of coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure. While they have long been used in clinical practise, our understanding of their mechanism of action and of their side effects remains incomplete. To date, the most commonly employed nitrates are isosorbide mononitrate (ISMN), isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN), and nitroglycerin (GTN). Another nitrate, pentaerithrityl tetranitrate (PETN), has long been employed in eastern European countries and is currently being reintroduced also in western countries. So far, PETN is the only organic nitrate in clinical use, which is devoid of induction of oxid…