Sentences with phrase «oxidant stress»

One research program focuses on the role of myeloperoxidase, a leukocyte heme protein, in promoting oxidant stress in vivo, and its participation in cardiovascular diseases.

«One of the key strategies that worked in our experiments is to treat dopamine neurons early in the toxic cascade with specific antioxidants that improve mitochondrial oxidant stress and lower oxidized dopamine,» Krainc said.

Jason M. Morrow, M.D. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Isoprostanes as markers and mediators of oxidant stress in humans

The third modular network incorporates known polymorphisms or haplotypes that influence each of the generic responses to organism stress (intermediate phenotype, I, or response genome or proteome), and will define, for example, the extent to which an individual can mount an inflammatory response, develop thrombosis, or accommodate oxidant stress.

Symposia and poster abstracts will focus on reactive oxidant stress, nitric oxide, angiotensin II, angiotensin (1 - 7), glutamate, GABA and the transcriptional and translational regulation of the receptors for many of these mediators.

High - calorie processed foods lead to spikes in both blood lipids and blood glucose, which cause oxidant stress.

In depth biochemical investigations coupled with electron microscopy have shown that at this threshold the balance between safety and toxicity of copper becomes very unstable and liver damage, involving a process known as oxidant stress, becomes very likely.

Krainc and his colleagues discovered that the dopamine also damaged the neurons» mitochondria by increasing mitochondrial oxidant stress.

Oxidant stress is why we get wrinkles; and why we lose some of our memory, and why our organ systems break down as we get older.

Aging and disease have been thought of as the oxidation of the body; oxidant stress is thought to be why we all get wrinkles, why we lose some of our memory, why our organ systems break down as we get older.

Very often the dog will continue to accumulate copper which it manages to tolerate by a combination of efficient «packaging» of the dangerous metal (a process known as sequestration) and natural antioxidant chemicals which it produces in response to the oxidant stress.