Utilizing the gel electrophoresis/DNA binding assay and a new technique of direct binding of radioactive DNA to protein blots, we have investigated putative factors selective for the cAMP-responsive element (CRE) of the lactate dehydrogenase A subunit promoter in rat ovary nuclear extracts. Analysis of linker-scanning mutants of lactate dehydrogenase A subunit promoter fragments by DNA binding ...

Oxidative stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of heart disease. Tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) is antioxidant and that has potential to reduce risk This study determine protective effects palm TRF against H2O2-induced oxidative damage neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (NRCM). The NRCM were divided into control, treated with (10 µg/mL), H2O2 (0.5 mM) prior induction (pre-treatment). Ce...

OBJECTIVE Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) preconditioning (HBO-PC) has been testified to have protective effects on spinal cord injury (SCI). However, the mechanisms remain enigmatic. The present study aimed to explore the effects of HBO-PC on primary rat spinal neurons against oxidative injury and oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) and the relationship with heat shock proteins (HSPs). METHODS Primary ...

Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common female cancer worldwide. Inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) block apoptosis; therefore, therapeutic strategies targeting IAPs have attracted the interest of researchers in recent years. Apollon, a member of IAPs, inhibits apoptosis and cell death. RNA interference is a pathway in which small interfering RNA (siRNA) or shRNA (short hairp...

Lipopolysaccharide can induce myocardial cell injury, which has been widely used in the preparation of septic cardiomyopathy models. We herein aimed to evaluate protective effects sodium hydrosulfide against oxidative stress and endoplasmic reticulum on model explore whether protein kinase RNA-like kinase-eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha signaling pathways was involved. The sepsis induced e...

1. Sodium dichloroacetate (1mM) inhibited glucose production from L-lactate in kidney-cortex slices from fed, starved or alloxan-diabetic rates. In general gluconeogenesis from other substrates was no inhibited. 2. Sodium dichloracetate inhibited glucose production from L-lactate but no from pyruvate in perfused isolated kidneys from normal or alloxan-diabetic rats. 3. Sodium dichloroacetate is...

In the present study, the antioxidant activity of the polysaccharides from aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller) gel was evaluated, in vitro by five established methods, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH(-)) radical scavenging, nitric oxide (NO) scavenging, hydrogen peroxide scavenging, superoxide radical (O(-2)) scavenging and reducing power assay, and in vivo against doxorubicin (DOX)-induced...

Animal breeding and management of organic wastes pose a serious problem to the health of livestock and workers, as well as the nearby residents. The aim of the present study was to determine the mechanisms of toxicity of selected common odorous compounds from poultry manure, including ammonia, dimethylamine (DMA), trimethylamine (TMA), butyric acid, phenol, and indole. We measured their genotox...

A 9-year-old Afro-Caribbean boy presented with fever, abdominal pain and collapse. Physical examination was normal, as were chest X-ray computed tomography of his head. Urinalysis showed microscopic haematuria proteinuria. reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA. His full blood count on presentation a haemoglobin concentration 99 g/l, mean cell volum...