Anticancer therapy with doxorubicin (DOX) and other quinone anthracyclines is limited by severe cardiotoxicity, reportedly because semiquinone metabolites delocalize Fe(II) from ferritin and generate hydrogen peroxide, thereby promoting hydroxyl radical formation and lipid peroxidation. Cardioprotective interventions with antioxidants or chelators have nevertheless produced conflicting results....

Metmyoglobin (MbFe), a major form of dietary iron, is an efficient inducer of lipid and protein oxidation. Indeed, MbFe is able to cleave hydrogen peroxide and lipid hydroperoxides with subsequent formation of ferrylmyoglobin (MbFe=O) and lipid oxyl and peroxyl radicals. In the first part of this work, the mechanism of the reaction between MbFe and H2O2 is revisited with an emphasis on the infl...

Many cystic fibrosis (CF) patients have increased circulating levels of oxidation products and/or decreased antioxidant status. This study investigated whether treatment of pulmonary exacerbations decreased oxidative stress in CF patients. Seventeen adult patients were studied at the beginning and end of treatment with intravenous antibiotics. Plasma concentrations of the antioxidants ascorbic ...

PURPOSE Green tea due to its content of catechins reveals strong antioxidative activity, which is manifested among others by its ability to inhibit free radical generation, scavenge free radicals as well as chelate transition metal ions that catalyse free radical reactions. The influence of green tea extract, epicatechin (EC), epicatechin galate (ECG) as well as epigallocatechin galate (EGCG) o...

D-(-)-ribose was subjected to oxidation with equimolar amounts of H20 2/Fe2+ and 13-hydroperoxy-9-c/s-l l-fra/75-octadecadienoic acid/Fe2+. Smaller carbohydrates, carbonyl compounds, hydroxy acids and polyols were produced. Identification of carbonyl compounds was achieved by trapping with pentafluorobenzylhydroxylamine hydrochloride (PFBHA-HC1). All products were identified by GC/MS after deri...

Oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL) has been suggested to play a casual role in human atherosclerosis, and prevention of LDL oxidation may be an effective strategy to prevent or slow the progression of this disease. It is important, therefore, to identify the factors that determine LDL's susceptibility to oxidation. We have analyzed 62 human LDL samples for content of antiox...