We tested the ability of N(6)-furfuryladenine (kinetin) to protect against oxidative and glycoxidative protein damage generated in vitro by sugars and by an iron/ascorbate system. At 50 microM, kinetin was more efficient (82% inhibition) than adenine (49% inhibition) to inhibit the bovine serum albumin (BSA)-pentosidine formation in slow and fast glycation/glycoxidation models. Kinetin also inh...

Medicinally important genus Ocimum harbors a vast pool of chemically diverse metabolites. Current study aims at identifying anti-diabetic candidate compounds from Ocimum species. Major metabolites in O. kilimandscharicum, O. tenuiflorum, O. gratissimum were purified, characterized and evaluated for anti-glycation activity. In vitro inhibition of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) by eugenol...

Glucose reacts with proteins nonenzymatically under physiological conditions. Such glycation is exacerbated in diabetic patients with high levels of blood sugar and induces various complications. Human albumin serum (HSA) is the most abundant protein in plasma and is glycated by glucose. The glycation sites on HSA remain controversial among different studies. Here, we report two protein crystal...

Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) play an important factor for pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications. Moringa oleifera is one of the medicinal plants that have anti-hyperglycemic activity. However, anti-glycation property of Moringa oleifera leaf extract on the different types of reducing monosaccharides-induced protein glycation has not been investigated. Therefore, the aim of...

Naturally occurring anti-glycation compounds have drawn much interest in recent years as they show potential in reducing or preventing the risk of chronic complications for diabetic patients. In this study, annotation of the genome-transcriptome data from tiger milk mushroom (Lignosus rhinocerus, syn. Lignosus rhinocerotis) to PlantCyc enzymes database identified transcripts that are related to...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AGEs: Advanced Glycation End-products; ROS: Reactive Oxygen Species; DM: Diabetes Mellitus; RAGE: Receptors of AGEs; HLA: Human Leucocyte Antigen; GDM: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus; MODY: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young; SMBG: Self Monitoring Blood Glucose; HAS: Human Serum Albumin; HMA: Human Mercaptalbumin; PCO: Protein Carbon...

1. Pancreatic bile-salt-dependent lipase has been detected in human plasma where it has the capability to modify normal low- and high-density lipoprotein composition and structure and to reduce the atherogenicity of oxidized low-density lipoprotein (Shamir R, Johnson WJ, Morlock-Fitzpatrick K, Zolfaghari R, Li L, Mas E, Lombardo D, Morel DW, Fisher EA. Pancreatic carboxyl ester lipase: a circul...

To characterize active principles for prevention and treatment of diabetic complications, the isolation of protein glycation inhibitors from the fruiting body of Phellinus linteus was conducted in vitro using the model systems of hemoglobin-delta-gluconolactone (early stage), bovine serum albumin-methylglyoxal (middle stage), and N(alpha)-acetyl-glycyl-lysine methyl ester-D-ribose (last stage) ...