The caudal subnucleus of the spinal trigeminal nucleus (medullary dorsal horn; MDH) receives direct inputs from small diameter primary afferent fibers that predominantly transmit nociceptive information in the orofacial region. Recent studies indicate that reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in persistent pain, primarily through spinal mechanisms. In this study, we aimed to investigate th...

Objective: Animal myocardial dysfunction induced by remote ischemia-reperfusion (IR) was shown to be partly accomplished via a direct effect of the pro-oxidant xanthine oxidase (XO). This direct remote effect was not tested in humans. We now assessed the performance of human auricles in the presence of solutions containing XO and/or allopurinol and compared them to those of rat myocardial strip...

Legumes and the polyphenolic compounds present in them have gained a lot of interest due to their beneficial health implications. Dietary polyphenolic compounds, especially flavonoids, exert antioxidant properties and are potent inhibitors of xanthine oxidase (XO) activity. XO is the main contributor of free radicals during exercise but it is also involved in pathogenesis of several diseases su...

Vascular endothelial cells (ECs) appear to be one of the primary targets of hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) injury. In our previous study, we demonstrated that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) exhibited a protective effect in cardiac microvascular endothelial cells (CMECs) subjected to H/R by inhibiting xanthine oxidase (XO) by reducing the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration increased in response to H/R. T...

These studies examined the effect of dicumarol on xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH), an enzyme recently shown to bioreduce mitomycin C. Dicumarol, which has previously been shown to inhibit xanthine oxidase (XO), inhibited both XDH and XO mediated conversion of xanthine to uric acid but potentiated the metabolism of mitomycin C by XDH and XO. Formation of 2,7-diaminomitosene following mitomycin C bi...

LPS and selected cytokines upregulate xanthine dehydrogenase/xanthine oxidase (XDH/XO) in cellular systems. However, the effect of these factors on in vivo XDH/XO expression, and their contribution to lung injury, are poorly understood. Rats were exposed to normoxia or hypoxia for 24 h after treatment with LPS (1 mg/kg) and IL-1beta (100 microg/kg) or sterile saline. Lungs were then harvested f...

THE XANTHINE-OXIDASE (XO) system has been considered to be involved in warm ischemia-reperfusion injury of the small intestinal mucosa. 1 Briefly, during warm ischemia in the small intestine. xanthine dehydrogenase (XD) is converted to XO, which produces superoxide radicals in the presence of its" substrate (hypoxanthine and xanthine) and oxygen.2 Meanwhile, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is degr...

OBJECTIVE We have previously demonstrated that endothelial xanthine oxidase (XO) levels are dependent on the NADPH oxidase. We postulated that H2O2 may modulate the irreversible conversion of xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) to XO and sought to examine mechanisms involved. METHODS AND RESULTS H2O2 (100 micromol/L) decreased bovine aortic endothelial cell (BAEC) XDH protein expression, and metabol...

The steroid sulfatase (STS) levels in mature oocytes of XX and XO mice were assayed along with lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), an autosomal marker, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), a known X-linked gene. LDH levels in XX and XO oocytes were equal, whereas STS and G6PD levels were approximately twice as high in XX oocytes as in XO oocytes. These results indicate that the STS gene is X-...

Turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. The 45, XO karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. Herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with Turner syndrome and 45, XO karyotype presenting with short stature. She had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. To ...