UNLABELLED A clinical investigation (representing evidence-based medicine level III) was performed to evaluate the benefit of complementary medicine in breast cancer patients undergoing adjuvant hormone therapy (HT). PATIENTS AND METHODS The patients (n=129) were treated according to international guidelines. All patients suffered from arthralgia and mucosal dryness induced by the adjuvant HT...

UNLABELLED Stress granules (SGs) are dynamic accumulations of stalled preinitiation complexes and translational machinery that assemble under stressful conditions. Sodium selenite (Se) induces the assembly of noncanonical type II SGs that differ in morphology, composition, and mechanism of assembly from canonical SGs. Se inhibits translation initiation by altering the cap-binding activity of eu...

In vivo-applied sodium selenide or sodium selenite causes the appearance of zinc-selenium nanocrystals in places where free or loosely bound zinc ions are present. These nanocrystals can in turn be silver enhanced by autometallographic (AMG) development. The selenium method was introduced in 1982 as a tool for zinc-ion tracing, e.g., in vesicular compartments such as synaptic vesicles of zinc-e...

Intervention trials with different forms of selenium are under way to assess the effects of selenium supplements on the incidence of cancer and other diseases. Plasma selenium biomarkers respond to selenium administration and might be useful for assessing compliance and safety in these trials. The present study characterized the effects of selenium supplementation on plasma selenium biomarkers ...

The role of antioxidants in prevention and treatment of cancers have been reported by several studies. In our investigation we studied the effects of ascorbic acid, ?-tocopherol, and sodium selenite on proliferation of two breast cancer cell lines: T47D (estrogen-receptor positive) and MDA-MB-231 (estrogen-receptor negative). We also used 17-?-estradiol as positive control for proliferation of ...

This study investigated the effect of different dietary selenium (Se) sources on growth performance, antioxidant capacity, gut microbiota, and molecular responses Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei. Four Se (sodium selenite, L-selenomethionine, yeast, or nanoparticles) were added to purified diets 0.4 mg Se/kg diet for ( 1.60<...

Sodium selenite supplementation at a concentration 50 nM before X-ray irradiation was suggested to protect non-cancerous human esophageal CHEK-1 cells from irradiation-induced damage. This present study investigated those effects on cancerous cell line. The cancer line, TE-8, cultured and supplemented for the cytotoxicity assay, GPx-1 activity, viability clonogenic assay western blot analysis. ...

Release of different heavy metals from various industries is a significant environmental hazard worldwide. In order to reduce the threat these chemicals, treatment methods are needed make them harmless. This study approaches problem by examining effect gypsum content for immobilization selenium oxyanions selenite and selenate, sulfate, with calcium sulfoaluminate belite (CSAB) cement-based ettr...