... CD40 ligand, interleukin 1, or interleukin 6 [10]. Oxi-dative stress also promotes angiogenesis [13]. The linkbetween oxidativestressand angiogenesis is emphasised in SSc by the baseline correlation ... early interactions between endothelial cells and mononuclear cells [22].We previously demonstrated a sustained major decrease in oxidative stressin response to treatment with dihydropyrid-ine-type ... nifedipine can ameliorate endothelium injury in SSc and that VEGF signalling may by impaired in this diseasewithout implication of the sVEGFR-1.Endothelium injury is critical in SSc and is...
... synthase. The increased activities of argininosuccinate synthetase and argininosuccinate lyase suggest the increased and effective recycling of citrulline to arginine in anoxia, making nitric ... arginine at the site of synthesis. Arginine is a semi essential amino acid andin CNS, its availability depends upon: (a) uptake from the circu-lating arginine and (b) recycling of citrulline ... hypoxia) and reperfusion damage in brain. The increased activities of AS and AL indicate the effective recycling of citrulline to arginine and suggest a functional role to citrulline –NO cycle...
... by proteins resi-ding in both the inner and outer mitochondrialmembrane, that is activated by mitochondrial Ca2+overloading and other factors including oxidative stress [88,89]. In neurons ... of KGDHC in yeast equivalent to E2 in mammals),have two or more different functions, in addition tohaving supporting functions for oxidative defences [79],involving the thioredoxin system ... element binding protein, iso-citrate dehydrogenase is an RNA-binding protein, whilekgd2p is a mitochondrial DNA binding protein [81–84].Mitochondria from different brain regions containdifferent...
... implicating both oxidative stressand inflammatory mechanisms in AD pathogenesis.Effect of indomethacin plus vitamin E supplementation on sol-uble Aβ levelsFigure 3Effect of indomethacin plus ... therapeutic interventions suppressed brain inflammatory and oxidativestress responses in the mice. This effect was accompanied by significant reductionsof soluble and insoluble Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42 in ... flurbiprofen, indomethacin) reducedbrain inflammation and Aβ levels in addition to the dep-osition of Aβ in brain [13,14]. Despite this evidence, and the considerable theoretical and therapeutic interest,...
... Portugal3Division of Veterinary Medicine, School of Veterinary Science and Medicine, Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UKCorresponding author: Alexandrina F Mendes, ... IL-1β-induced 2-DG uptake, including theaffinity (1.066 ± 0.284 and 1.49 ± 0.59 mM) and maximalvelocity (0.27 ± 0.08 and 0.33 ± 0.08 nmol/μg protein/hour), and GLUT-1 content were identical in ... local inflammation and changes in the subchondralbone. Increasing age, excessive loading or injury, genetic pre-disposition and obesity are important risk factors for the devel-opment and progression...
... Our findingsclearly show the presence of oxidativestressin degenerat-ing cartilage, and the resultant telomere erosion and dys- function of chondrocytes in vitro andin vivo, suggesting arole ... senescence and oxidativestressin OA cartilage, as discussed above, wepostulated that oxidativestress induces telomere instability and dysfunction in chondrocytes, subsequently resulting in cartilage ... maintain thechondrocyte telomere length and proteoglycan remaining in thecartilage explants, suggesting that oxidativestress induceschondrocyte telomere instability and catabolic changes in cartilage...
... MPK3 and MPK6 in Arabidopsis (group AMAPKs), SIMK and SAMK in alfalfa, and LeMPK1 ⁄ 2(Lycopersicon esculentum SA-induced pro-tein kinase) and LeMPK3 (L. esculentum wound-induced protein kinase) ... protein kinase and wound-induced protein kinase, two MAPKs in group A, wereactivated by inoculation with the tobacco mosaic virus(TMV) [10]. Their orthologs in other plant species,including ... accumulation in wild-type and transgenicplants in response to abiotic and abiotic stresses. (A) Virus infec-tion-induced H2O2accumulation detected by DAB staining. (B) Abi-otic stress- induced...
... indicating the presence of two catalyticallyindependent domains, the N-terminal domain, display-ing ALDH activity, and the C-terminal domain, con-taining an iron-binding domain, which is involved ... against oxidative stress damage, have not been reported. In vivo effects on glucose-fermenting enzymes and fluxes under oxidative stress Recently, we reported that amebas incubated for30 min in ... solubilized extract were incubated in such buffers for 4 hon ice, and the remaining enzyme activity was determined. Inset: EhPFOR time stability in N2-saturated buffer in the absence or presenceof...
... study of PM2.5 - and PM10 - induced oxidative stress in rat lung epithelial cellsJin-Hyuk Choi, Jun-Sung Kim, Young-Chul Kim1, Yoon-Shin Kim2, Nam-Hyun Chung3 and Myung-Haing Cho*Laboratory ... protectionstandards for PM by adding an indicator for even “fine”particles (PM2.5). In this trend, our government is trying toupdate on ongoing litigation over PM2.5 standard. However,relative less information ... study,PM2.5 induced more MDA formation than PM10suggesting that PM2.5 induced more oxidativestress thanPM10. In the single strand breakage assay using pBR322DNA, the ratio of changed form II/total...
... processes.However, after 85 days, the NR activity in the seedlings waslower and decreased with increasing O3. At that time in theseason and with increasing oxidative stress, NH3may havebeen provided ... 10.1051/forest:2006019Original articleResponse to an ozone gradient of growth and enzymes implicated in tolerance to oxidativestressin Acer saccharum (Marsh.) seedlingsCatherine Ga,b*,NadineCc,PaulWc, ... material from a single leaf was sam-pled from each flush of each seedling, cut into 2 × 2 mm pieces and incubated in 5 mL of 100 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.5) containing40 mM KNO3 and 1.5% 1-propanol....