objective: electro-magnetic radiation (emr) is emitted from mobile phones. various researches have shown relationships between mobile phone emr exposure to cancer and neurologic damages. this study aims to investigate the effects of mobile phone emr on brain antioxidant enzyme activity and the learning process. methods: rat pups and their dames were exposed to emr for 3 h per day from p2 to p1...

diabetes mellitus (dm) is a chronic heterogeneous disorder and oxidative stress is a key participant in the development and progression of it and its complications. anti-oxidant status can affect vulnerability to oxidative damage, onset and progression of diabetes and diabetes complications. superoxide dismutase 2 (sod2) is one of the major antioxidant defense systems against free radicals. sod...

objective(s): amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is the most common motor neuron disease in european populations. approximately 10% of als cases are familial (fals) and the other patients are considered as sporadic als (sals). among many als causing genes that have been identified, mutations in sod1 and c9orf72 are the most common genetic causes...

background: atopic dermatitis is a public health problem worldwide. increment of reactive oxygen species (ros) produc­tion may be one of the contributing factors of tissue damage in atopic dermatitis. the present study was designed to deter­mine the effect of vitamins e and/or d on erythrocyte superoxide dismutase and catalase activities in patients with atopic dermati­tis. methods: in a random...

superoxide dismutase (sod) is an important antioxidant that protects many types of cells from the free radical damage. one of the possible ways for the use of sod is its incorporation in liposomes. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cationic phospholipids on the entrapment of human erythrocyte superoxide dismutase (cu/zn sod) in liposomes. also, in the present study, we exam...

Erythrocyte superoxide dismutase activities were measured in 45 subjects, 15 each of beta 0-thalassaemia/haemoglobin (Hb) E disease, Hb H disease, and normal. The erythrocyte superoxide dismutase activities were significantly higher in the patients with beta 0-thalassaemia/Hb E and Hb H diseases than in the normal subjects. The increase of erythrocyte superoxide dismutase activities is most lik...

Superoxide dismutase is antioxidant enzyme responsible for the quenching of superoxide radicals which are released during the chemical reactions of the various metabolic pathways. It is a non-heme protein. Different iso-enzymes of superoxide dismutase are described. The mitochondrial enzyme is manganese dependent, cytoplasmic enzyme is copper-zinc dependent. These enzymes are evenly and ubiquit...