Purpose: To compare the serum malondialdehyde (MDA) and total antioxidant status in women with preeclampsia and normal pregnancy in our environment. Materials & Methods: This was a 3-year, cross-sectional, case control study of 100 preeclamptic and 200 normotensive pregnant women at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Nigeria. The study protocol was rev...

OBJECTIVES To study the association between copper, magnesium and malondialdehyde levels in seminal plasma of oligozoospermic, azoospermic in relation to normozoospermic men. METHODS The present study was conducted at the Chemistry and Biochemistry department, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad-Iraq during September 2007 to February 2008 after obtaining approval from the rese...

enhanced oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus may contribute to the pathogenesis of diaetic complications. in this article, the stress oxidative generation has been studied in experimental diabetes by ferric reducing ability of plasma assay, a sensitive and simple method, and by other oxidative damage markers. the ferric reducing ability of plasma values as a total antioxidant capacity were si...

Vitellaria paraodoxa (shea tree) is the source of shea seed from which well-known butter derived. The methanol extract was evaluated for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities using diclofenac sodium ascorbic acid as standard respectively in vitro methods. activity determined by inhibition protein denaturation bovine serum albumin (BSA) erythrocyte membrane stabilization human red blo...

We evaluated the effects of different oxidation levels lipids on protein degradation and biogenic amines (BAs) formation during Sichuan-style sausages processing. Lipids with varying degrees were obtained through storage at temperatures added as raw materials sausages, followed by analyses lipid oxidation, degradation, amine content, other indicators. During processing, increasing degree conten...

background: considering the wide consumption of some synthetic antioxidants and their probable negative health effects, in this study, the protective effects of satureja hortensis l. extracts in stabilizing soybean oil against oxidation at different concentrations (200 and 400 ppm) were tested. methods: the aerial parts of s. hortensis l. were collected from isfahan province and extracted with ...

This study was carried out to investigate the physicochemical and sensory properties of milk with added powdered peanut sprout extract microcapsules (PPSEM) during the storage at 4°C for 16 d. The size of PPSEM varies from 3 to 10 μm as observed by the scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The pH values of all samples ranged from 6.8 to 6.6 during the storage. Release of resveratrol for 0.5 and 1...

Some studies have proven the antioxidant and antimicrobial potency of chestnut flowers both in the raw matrix and after extraction, and the consumption of their decoctions has been related to beneficial effects towards health. In recent years, due to controversy and ambiguous legislation of chemical conservatives, plant extracts have been successfully used as functionalizing agents in different...

Objective: of this study was to determine changes in oxidative indices in tissues of exercised rats fed diet fortified with choline, carnitine and caffeine; and relate to those reported in humans. Methods: 7-week old male Sprague-Dawley rats were studied for five weeks. Diets were supplemented with choline, carnitine and caffeine and rats were either exercised or not during the last 2 weeks of ...

The authors are affiliated with the Dept. of Animal Science, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011-3150. Direct inquiries to Dr. D. U. Ahn. ABSTRACT Irradiation dose affected production of volatiles in vacuumand aerobic-packaged cooked pork sausage, but its effect on TBARS was minor. Storage increased production of volatiles and changed their composition only in aerobic-packaged sausage. Among volat...