The use of biomarkers to evaluate the biological effects of pollutants in marine organisms represents a recent tool in biomontoring programs. The cyclopoida copepod Apocyclops borneoensis was exposed to different Ni treatments [0 (control), 10, 100, 1000 μg lNi] for 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 days. At each exposure time, acetylchlinesterase (AChE), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione-S-transferase (GST...

This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of oral administration of lactoferrin (LF) and lactoperoxidase-(LPO-)containing tablet on periodontal condition. Seventy-two individuals with chronic periodontitis were randomly assigned to take either bovine LF and LPO-containing tablets (test group, n = 37) or control tablets (control group, n = 35) every day for 12 weeks. Periodontal parameter...

This study was undertaken to assess in vitro lipid peroxidation inhibitions and anti-radical activities of methanolic, chloroform, ethyl acetate and water fractions of Mangifera indica leaf. Inhibition of Fe(2+)-induced lipid peroxidation (LPO) in egg, brain, and liver homogenates, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and hydroxyl (OH-) radical scavenging activities were evaluated. Total phenol...

miRNAs are small regulatory RNAs that, due to their considerable potential to target a wide range of mRNAs, are implicated in essentially all biological process, including cancer. miR-10a is particularly interesting considering its conserved location in the Hox cluster of developmental regulators. A role for this microRNA has been described in developmental regulation as well as for various can...

Estimation of age dependent changes of the lipid peroxidation (LPO) intensity, content of stable metabolites of nitrogen oxides (NO) and antioxidant enzyme activities in rat blood serum in conditions of experimental postinfarction cardiosclerosis (PICS) is carried out. Initiation of the postinfarction remodeling of animals has been carried out with coronary occlusion, definition of LPO and NO m...

The ability of the clinically used cephalosporins: cephalothin, cefotaxime and cefotiam to induce lipid peroxidation (LPO) and renal damage was compared to that of nephrotoxic cephaloridine under in vivo conditions. Glutathione was measured in rat liver or in renal cortex as non-protein sulfhydryls. LPO was measured in plasma, renal cortex and liver by the generation of malondialdehyde or as th...

The preoptic hypothalamus is implicated in sleep regulation. Neurons in the median preoptic nucleus (MnPO) and the ventrolateral preoptic area (VLPO) have been identified as potential sleep regulatory elements. However, the extent to which MnPO and VLPO neurons are activated in response to changing homeostatic sleep regulatory demands is unresolved. To address this question, we continuously rec...

Introduction Oxidative stress has been implicated in the normal ageing process and the pathogenesis of several diseases, including goitre. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between urine lipid peroxidation (LPO) and anthropometric parameters as well as the parameters associated with goitre formation in children. Material and methods The subjects included 172 healthy childr...

We studied the effect of chronic oral exposure to lead acetate (PbA) on the sensitivity of RBC to hemolysis and whether the sensitivity could be decreased by feeding the rats with extract of medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum. Three groups of rats, control, PbA-exposed, and G. lucidum (Gl)+PbA, were used. PbA (3 mM) was administered via drinking water and G. lucidum extract by gavage at 300 m...

In this work, we introduce the Cov-MECF framework, a special case of minimum-edge cost flow in which the input graph is bipartite. We observe that several important covering (and multi-covering) problems are captured in this unifying model and introduce a new heuristic LPO for any problem in this framework. The essence of LPO harnesses as an oracle the fractional solution in deciding how to gre...