Present investigation was planned to evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness of chelating agents against vanadium intoxication on blood and reproductive organs of rats. Male and female albino rats were injected vanadyl sulphate (7.5 mg/kg, po, for 21 days, 5 days in a week). Chelating agents tiron (T) alone and in combination with lipoic acid (LA), vitamin E (vit E) and selenium (Se) were given ...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are metabolism by-products that may act as signaling molecules to sustain tumor growth. Antioxidants have been used to impair cancer cell survival. Our goal was to determine the mechanisms involved in the response to antioxidants of a human cell culture (PT4) containing glioblastoma (GBM) tumorigenic initiating cells (TICs). ROS production in the absence or presenc...

UO2 (II) – ferron complex solution in ethanol and also Fe (II) – ferron or tiron complexes, and Fe (III) – ferron or tiron complexes in aqueous solutions were prepared and their composition was determined by the molar ratio method. The complex solutions formed were found to obey Beer`s law within certain concentration ranges. The color bleaching of these complex solutions upon gamma irradiation...

The superoxide anion ([Formula: see text]) appears to be an important modulator of nitric oxide (NO ⋅) bioavailability. The present study was designed to characterize the role of copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (Cu/Zn SOD) in endothelium-dependent relaxations. Cu/Zn SOD was inhibited with the Cu2+chelator diethyldithiocarbamic acid (DETCA). In isolated canine basilar arteries, DETCA (7.6 × 10-...

For the determination of silicon (Si) contents in plant materials several methods are use, but as all these exhibit specific advantages and drawbacks, none them has become prevalent. Alkaline chemicals widely used to extract Si from samples, because this method is comparably simple, fast, cheap. However, a comprehensive comparison between different alkaline extractions organs still missing, wel...

Two new methods, the modified International Dairy Federation and the modified Tiron methods, were developed for the determination of hydroperoxides in liposomes. Interferences of alpha-tocoferol and egg-phosphatidylcholine (EPC) required a solid-phase extraction before the analysis to eliminate alpha-tocoferol and a fluid-fluid extraction based on the solvent triangle of Bligh and Dyer to separ...