Oxidative Damage and Bronchial Asthma

Frequency of polymorphism -262 c/t in catalase gene and oxidative damage in Slovak children with bronchial asthma.

INTRODUCTION Bronchial asthma is a complex disease in which genetic factors, environmental factors and oxidative damage are responsible for the initiation and modulation of disease progression. If antioxidant mechanisms fail, reactive oxygen species damage the biomolecules followed by progression of the disease. Catalase is one of the most important endogenous enzymatic antioxidants. In the pre...

Association of oxidative stress and GST-T1 gene with childhood bronchial asthma.

There is increasing evidence that bronchial asthma is associated with increased oxidative stress. Reactive oxygen species are produced in each organism as by-products of several essential reactions and can damage biomolecules. Asthma is a complex chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways, with many candidate genes suspected as being important in its development. Glutathione S-transferase (GS...

Human platelet antigen polymorphism in bronchial asthma

Background: Asthma is recognized as a common cause of disability, of great economic cost, and of preventable deaths. In this study we aimed to test our hypothesis to evaluate the relationship between the Human Platelet Antigen-1(HPA-1) polymorphism and bronchial asthma and its severity, which would suggest genetic variances that may be responsible for expression or activation of these receptors...

Oxidative Stress and Bronchial Asthma in Children—Causes or Consequences?

Bronchial asthma is one of the most common chronic inflammatory diseases of the airways. In the pathogenesis of this disease, the interplay among the genes, intrinsic, and extrinsic factors are crucial. Various combinations of the involved factors determine and modify the final clinical phenotype/endotype of asthma. Oxidative stress results from an imbalance between the production of reactive o...

Genetic Polymorphisms of Glutathione S-Transferase mu1 (GSTM1) and Theta1(GSTT1) and Bronchial Asthma Susceptibility in Ukrainian Population