OBJECTIVE To investigate the causal role of oxidative-stress status on human sperm motility. DESIGN To demonstrate that sperm with higher oxidative damage have a lower antioxidant capacity. SETTING University hospital infertility center. PATIENT(S) Seventy-eight semen samples were obtained from 35 healthy donors who had normal semen characteristics and from 43 infertile or subfertile male...

3D Bioprinting In article number 2102697 by Jeroen Leijten, Su Ryon Shin, and co-workers, mitigating the toxic effects from solid peroxides in self-oxygenating living tissues is achieved catalase-mediated hydrolysis of hydrogen peroxide.

The roles of active oxygen, lipid peroxidation, and the antioxidative defence mechanism in gastric mucosal injury induced by treatment with indomethacin in rats were investigated. The total area of gastric erosions and concentration of lipid peroxides in the gastric mucosa increased with time after administration of indomethacin (20 mg/kg, orally). The alpha-tocopherol:total cholesterol ratio i...

Hypolipidaemic and antioxidant effects of ethanol extract of mature green fruits of Musa AAA (Chenkadali) was evaluated in alloxan induced diabetic rats. The effect of extract at two doses, 500 mg/kg body weight and 1000 mg/kg body weight was analysed and compared with a standard drug, glibenclamide. Rats administered with alloxan showed significantly increased levels of serum triacylglycerol, ...

Lipid peroxides were measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and sera from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) or other conditions and from control subjects. In serum, visible fluorescence, A240nm, and free and protein-bound thiobarbituric acid (TBA)-reactive substances were significantly greater in MS patients than in control subjects. No such differences were observed in CSF. There was no cor...

Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with oxidative amperometric detection was optimized for the determination of several organic peroxides in drinking water under ideal conditions. The determinations were performed under isocratic conditions using acetonitrile and methanol as the organic modifiers with 0.05 M potassium phosphate buffer solution. The oxidative amperometric resp...

Peroxidases are very important enzymes, e.g., as preventive antioxidants by removing noxious peroxides from the blood. For this reason we evaluated a colorimetric method which detects the activity of endogenous peroxidases by their reaction with hydrogen peroxide, using tetramethylbenzidine as the chromogenic substrate. This assay design can be easily reversed by change of the variable compound...

Guanylate cyclase [GTP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.2] activity of human platelet homogenates was stimulated by the addition of phospholipase A2 or unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic, vaccenic, linoleic, linolenic, eicosenoic, eicosadienoic, and arachidonic acids. The addition of lipoxidase potentiated the fatty acid-induced stimulation of guanylate cyclase purified by DEAE-cell...