Potential antioxidative activities of enzymatic extracts from seven species of brown seaweeds were evaluated using four different reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging assays containing DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-pricrylhydrazyl) free radical, superoxide anion, hydroxyl radical and hydrogen peroxide scavenging assay. The brown seaweeds were enzymatically hydrolyzed to prepare water-soluble extract...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis involves an imbalance between free radical formation and destruction. In order to obtain a novel preclinical anti-AD drug candidate, we synthesized a series of novel hydroxyl chalcone analogs which possessed anti-free radical activity, and screened their effects on scavenging 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and OH free radicals in vitro. Compound C7, ...

Resveratrol is a natural phytoestrogen and possesses many biological functions such as anti-inflammatory activity and protection against atherosclerosis and myocardial infraction. The present study was carried out to elucidate the neuroprotective effect and possible mechanism of resveratrol on cerebral ischemia-induced hippocampus neuron loss. Sixty adult male rats underwent general anesthesia ...

Effect of free radicals on microvascular dimensions was studied in anesthetized cat intestinal mesentery. Generation of free radicals by xanthine oxidase, acting on endogenous substrates (e.g., xanthine, hypoxanthine), produced sustained vasodilation at pH 7.4 or at pH 6.6. These effects were reversed by superoxide dismutase (SOD), a superoxide radical (.O2-) scavenger, at pH 7.4, and by SOD pl...

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Spin Trapping, Free Radicals N-[tert-13C]Butyl C-phenyl nitrone (PBN-[tert-13C]) has been synthesized for an EPR spin trapping competition study. The newly synthesized PBN-[tert-13C] shows different 13C-hyperfine splitting constants (a13C) when it traps free radicals as compared to another 13C-labeled PBN analogue, N-tert-butyl C-phenyl [nitronyl-13C]nitrone (PB...

Three water-soluble polysaccharides in fruits of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) cultivars, coded as BP1, BP2 and BP3, were isolated by precipitation with alcohol from the aqueous extract of the fruits residue after refluxed with ethanol and deproteined by Sevage method and decolored by 30% H 2 O 2 from the fruit of bitter gourd. Their chemical structure and physicochemical properties wer...

UNLABELLED Crataegus succulenta Schrad. ex Link is widely spread in North America. A literature survey revealed no studies on the chemical composition and biological effects of this species. AIM The aim of the present study was to investigate the phenolic content, free radical scavenging and 15-lipoxygenase inhibitory effects of Crataegus succulenta leaf and flower extracts. MATERIAL AND ME...

The effect of side-chain shortening of N/OFQ(1-13)NH(2) at position 9 ([Orn(9)]N/OFQ(1-13)NH(2), [Dab(9)]N/OFQ(1-13)NH(2), [Dap(9)]N/OFQ(1-13)NH(2)) was studied regarding potential toxicity and antioxidant capacity. Staurosporine- and H2O2-induced damage of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells was not changed in the presence of N/OFQ(1-13)NH(2) and [Orn(9)]N/OFQ(1-13)NH(2), but was strongly enhanced in ...

in order to optimization of protein hydrolysis condition (including enzyme to substrate ratio (e/s), temperature and time) for achieving the highest antioxidant activity, the green tiger prawn (p. semisulcatus) mince was tested via commercial protease (alcalase® 2.4l) based on the response surface designed method in 18 treatments and then dried to obtain powder in freeze dryer. the antioxidant ...

QCT calculations were performed to study the behavior of energized NH2OH formed by association collision of NH2 radical with OH radical. A potential energy surface that describes the behavior of the title reaction has been constructed by interpolation of ab initio data. H2O, HON, HNO, NH3, O, H2NO, cis or trans-HONH, and H products and two vibrationally energized NH2OH and NH3O adducts were obs...