Ascorbate in an aqueous solution is easily oxidized by molecular oxygen in the presence of cupric ion, thus producing reactive oxygen species and exhibiting cytotoxicity. In order to increase the antitumor activity of ascorbate, we used the innocuous form of cupric ion complexed with glycylglycylhistidine, a tripeptide designed to mimic the specific Cu(ll) transport site of albumin molecule. Al...

Ascorbate (vitamin C) recycling occurs when extracellular ascorbate is oxidized, transported as dehydroascorbic acid, and reduced intracellularly to ascorbate. We investigated microorganism induction of ascorbate recycling in human neutrophils and in microorganisms themselves. Ascorbate recycling was determined by measuring intracellular ascorbate accumulation. Ascorbate recycling in neutrophil...

A facile and one-pot multicomponent synthesis of novel 1,4-disubstituted-1H-1,2,3-triazoles from alkenes at room temperature is reported. At the first step, in the presence of I2/NaN3 reagents, various alkenes were converted to the corresponding azido iodides and in the next step, the reaction of these compounds with phenylacetylene in the presence of catalytic amount of sodium ascorbate/ CuSO4...

trehalose is an important disaccharide signal metabolite in plants which is involved in various aspects of plant function such as response to stress, photosynthesis and carbon allocation and partitioning. a mutant of arabidopsis lacking trehalose-6-phosphate synthase activity (tps1) accumulates ascorbate. exogenous ascorbate application ameliorates trehalose induced growth inhibition of wild ty...

The use of soil additives such as selenium can positively influence the antioxidative system plants, making them more tolerant to abiotic stresses. aim this work was evaluate concentration sodium selenite or selenate applied substrate that causes improve in plant growth and enzyme activities sunflower plants. treatments were divided in: control (absence selenium); 0.2 mg L-1 selenate; 0.4 0.8 s...

In addition to the fact that “ideal” fat mimetic should have all functional characteristics of fat, it is preferable be from natural sources. Dietary fibers different sources large potential for roles in low-energy food products. This work observes wheat-fiber-based mimetics (microstructure, rheological and textural properties), as well influence small molecules additives, which are usually nec...

introduction plant responses to environmental stress have a central role in agricultural production. responses results from events occurring at all levels of the organization, from biochemical reactions in cells to whole plant physiology. many plants are injured when exposed to low non-freezing temperatures. however, data on the effects of night temperatures are scarce. on the other hand, nitri...