Oxidative RNA damage has been linked to loss of RNA function and to the development of many human age-related diseases. Consequently, a need exists for methods to identify and quantify the extent of RNA oxidation on a genome-wide basis. We developed such a method by combining affinity selection of mRNA containing 8-hydroxyguanine with high throughput DNA sequencing. We demonstrate that this ass...

Isoform-selective inhibitors of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) activation have an anti-inflammatory effect by reducing proinflammatory cytokines. Cultured feline esophageal epithelial cells (EEC) of passages 3~4 were treated with hydrogen peroxide and PIK-75. The cell viability was measured by a MTT incorporation assay. The distribution of PI3K isoforms, p-Akt, IL-1β, and IL-8 was inferred fr...

In the title compound, C(14)H(22)O(4) (systematic name: 9-hy-droxy-1,5,5-trimethyl-1,8-epidi-oxy-spiro-[5.5]decan-2-one), which was isolated from the fermentation broth of Steccherinum ochraceum, the two six-membered rings adopt chair conformations and are bridged by a peroxide group. The hy-droxy H atom forms a three-centre cyclic inter-molecular O-H⋯(O,O') hydrogen-bonding inter-action with a...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effects of carbamide peroxide and hydrogen peroxide on the biaxial flexural strength and flexural modulus of bovine dentin. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty coronal dentin disks (0.5 mm thick × 6.0 mm diameter) were prepared from bovine teeth. The disks were randomly divided into three groups (n=10): A control group (unbleached), a group bleached with 10% carbam...

Using the method of double cell staining by fluorescent dyes (Hoechst-33258 and propidium iodide) a content of alive, apoptic and necrotic cells in suspension of isolated rat thymocytes and also their morphological features after three hour incubation with nanostructured silicon, 0.1 mM hydrogen peroxide and exposure to electromagnetic field, considering both individual and combined effects, we...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The role of hydrogen peroxide in the regulation of cerebral arterial tone is not completely understood. Previous studies have demonstrated that hydrogen peroxide causes vasodilation of small cerebral arteries. The present study was designed to determine the mechanisms responsible for relaxations of large cerebral arteries to hydrogen peroxide. METHODS Rings of canine mi...

The experiments described in this paper were designed to determine the mechanism underlying the increase in 8-isoprostaglandin F(2alpha) (8-epi-PGF(2alpha)) production by cultured human endothelial cells during reoxygenation following hypoxia. Human umbilical artery endothelial cells were grown on microcarrier beads and exposed to sequential periods of normoxia, hypoxia, and reoxygenation. The ...

Several methods have been developed for following the breakdown of hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by catalase, but these either have not been sufficiently quantitative or have not proved rapid enough to yield reliable data during the critical 1st or 2nd minute of the reaction. Chemical procedures in which residual peroxide is titrated with permanganate (l-3) or an excess of permanganate is measure...