The Prooxidant State and Psychologic Stress: Response to Chalmers et al.

The prooxidant state and psychologic stress.

We have read with interest the work by Lesgards et al. (1) on the effect of different lifestyle factors on their test system, which measures the resistance of red blood cells to an oxidative challenge. Their study showed that psychologic stress is a major factor influencing antioxidant status. This finding encouraged us to share our experiences of a earlier study that resulted in similar conclu...

Response to Sadek et al. and Kotlikoff et al.

Ditte Caroline Andersen,1,2,* Charlotte Harken Jensen,1 and Søren Paludan Sheikh1,3 1Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Odense University Hospital, 5000 Odense C, Denmark 2Clinical Institute/University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Denmark 3Institute of Molecular Medicine/University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Den...

In Response to Fakruddin et al. and Apostolou et al

In Response to Fakruddin et al. dicted to result in substitutions of amino acids at the and Apostolou et al. corresponding positions in the protein sequence. In each of these cases, individual tumor DNA samples possessed the same sequence as that of the corresponding cell line. We agree with many of the above findings, including To determine if the divergent sequences represented the frequency ...

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

In Response to Murphy et al., Löwer et al., and Lan et al