BACKGROUND Sarcandra glabra (Caoshanhu) is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine used for treating various oxidative-stressed diseases. The present work evaluated its protective effect on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from oxidative stress and then discussed possible mechanisms underlying this observation. METHODS Ethanolic extract of S. glabra (ESG) was investigated by chemical methods for i...

Thiobacillus ferrooxidans was used in fixed-film bioreactors to oxidize ferrous sulfate to ferric sulfate. Glass beads, ion-exchange resin, and activated-carbon particles were tested as support matrix materials. Activated carbon was tested in both a packed-bed bioreactor and a fluidized-bed bioreactor; the other matrix materials were used in packed-bed reactors. Activated carbon displayed the m...

Ferrous (Fe2+) and ferric (Fe3+) compounds were investigated by XPS to determine the usefulness of calculated multiplet peaks to fit high-resolution iron 2p3/2 spectra from high-spin compounds. The multiplets were found to fit most spectra well, particularly when contributions attributed to surface peaks and shake-up satellites were included. This information was useful for fitting of the compl...

Iron can be a detrimental catalyst in biological free radical oxidations. Because of the high physiological ratio of [O2]/[H2O2] (> or = 10(3)), we hypothesize that the Fenton reaction with pre-existing H2O2 is only a minor initiator of free radical oxidations and that the major initiators of biological free radical oxidations are the oxidizing species formed by the reaction of Fe2+ with dioxyg...

Oxygen free radicals are highly reactive species generated by many cellular oxidation-reduction processes. These radicals damage cellular constituents and have been causally implicated in the pathogenesis of many human diseases. We report here that oxygen free radicals generated by Fe2+ in aqueous solution are mutagenic. Aerobic incubation of luminal diameter X174 am3 (amber 3 mutation) DNA wit...

2014 The system CaF2 : Fe2+ has been studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy in the slow relaxation regime (4.2-14 K). Far infrared experiments have been performed in the 1.5-35 K temperature range and at 1.5 K in an external magnetic field up to 8 T. From both Mössbauer and far infrared results, one can deduce that the average distance between the spin-orbit levels within the Eg state is K = 17 cm-1...

Vesicles of brush-border and basolateral plasma membrane were prepared from enterocytes of the rat small intestine. The separateness of these two varieties of plasma membrane was confirmed by appropriate enzyme assays. The uptake of Fe2+ by these membrane vesicles was studied, and the results suggest differences between the two types of membrane in both the amount of Fe2+ taken up and in the ra...

A 4-amino-1,2,4-triazole (NH2-trz) based linear trinuclear Fe(ii) complex of [Fe3(NH2-trz)6(SCN)4(H2O)2](SCN)2·H2O (1) has been hydrothermally synthesized by the reaction of a NH2-trz ligand with FeSO4. A single crystal of complex 1 is able to extrude one lattice water and one coordinated water, leading to another single crystal of complex 1a with a formula [Fe3(NH2-trz)6(SCN)5(H2O)](SCN) by he...