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Initially being considered as an environmental pollutant, nitric oxide has gained the momentum of research since its discovery as endothelial derived growth factor in 1987. Extensive researches have revealed the various pathological and physiological roles of nitric oxide such as inflammation, vascular and neurological regulation functions. Hence, the development of methods for quantifying nitric oxide concentration and its metabolites will be beneficial to well know about its biological functions and effects. This review summaries various methods for in vitro and in vivo nitric oxide detection, and introduces their merits and demerits.
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- Ekta Goshi
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; Center of Hydrogen Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Yamasumi K, Nishimura K, Hisamune Y, Nagae Y, Uchiyama T, Kamitani K, Hirai T, Nishibori M, Mori S, Karasawa S, Kato T, Furukawa K, Ishida M, Furuta H. Bis-Copper(II)/π-Radical Multi-Heterospin System with Non-innocent Doubly N
-Confused Dioxohexaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.0) Ligand. Chemistry 2017; 23:15322-15326. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Kazuhisa Yamasumi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Center for Molecular Systems; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Center for Molecular Systems; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Center for Molecular Systems; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8; Hyogo 679-5198 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Faculty of Engineering Sciences; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 816-8580 Japan
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- Advanced Research Support Center; Ehime University; Matsuyama 790-8577 Japan
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Showa Pharmaceutical University; Machida 194-8543 Japan
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- Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences; Kyoto University; Kyoto 606-8501 Japan
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- Center for Instrumental Analysis, Institute for Research Promotion; Niigata University; Niigata 950-2181 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Center for Molecular Systems; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Center for Molecular Systems; Kyushu University; Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
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Ovalıoğlu H, Peksoz A, Kırımlı HE, Yalçıner A. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Highly Fluorinated Solutions. J DISPER SCI TECHNOL 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/01932690903192572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Hong H, Sun J, Cai W. Multimodality imaging of nitric oxide and nitric oxide synthases. Free Radic Biol Med 2009; 47:684-98. [PMID: 19524664 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2009] [Revised: 05/28/2009] [Accepted: 06/10/2009] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) and NO synthases (NOSs) are crucial factors in many pathophysiological processes such as inflammation, vascular/neurological function, and many types of cancer. Noninvasive imaging of NO or NOS can provide new insights in understanding these diseases and facilitate the development of novel therapeutic strategies. In this review, we will summarize the current state-of-the-art multimodality imaging in detecting NO and NOSs, including optical (fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and bioluminescence), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), magnetic resonance (MR), and positron emission tomography (PET). With continued effort over the last several years, these noninvasive imaging techniques can now reveal the biodistribution of NO or NOS in living subjects with high fidelity which will greatly facilitate scientists/clinicians in the development of new drugs and/or patient management. Lastly, we will also discuss future directions/applications of NO/NOS imaging. Successful development of novel NO/NOS imaging agents with optimal in vivo stability and desirable pharmacokinetics for clinical translation will enable the maximum benefit in patient management.
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- Hao Hong
- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2275, USA
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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and imaging (EPRI) are deeply rooted in the basic and quantum physics, but the spectrum of their applications in modern experimental and clinical dermatology and cosmetology is surprisingly wide. The main aim of this review was to show the physical foundation, technical limitations and versatility of this method in skin studies. Free radical and metal ion detection, EPR dosimetry, melanin study, spin trapping, spin labelling, oximetry and NO-metry, EPR imaging, new generation methods of EPR and EPR/NMR hybrid technology used under ex vivo and in vivo regime are portrayed in the context of clinical and experimental skin research to study problems such as oxidative and nitrosative stress generated by UV or inflammation, skin oxygenation, hydration of corneal layer of epidermis, transport and metabolism of drugs and cosmeceutics, skin carcinogenesis, skin tumors and many others. A part of the paper is devoted to hair and nail research. The review of dermatological applications of EPR is supplemented with a handful of advice concerning practical aspects of EPR experimentation and usage of EPR reagents.
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- Przemyslaw M Plonka
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
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Peksoz A, Akif Cimenoglu M, Yalciner A. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Some Aliphatic and Aromatic Solutions as Studied by Fluorine‐Electron Double Resonance. J DISPER SCI TECHNOL 2008. [DOI: 10.1080/01932690701686809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Yang Q, Zhang XL, Zhang JX, Fan CP, Fang CX. A novel method for evaluating free radical scavenging abilities of antioxidants using ultraviolet induction of bacteriophage lambda. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 67:163-71. [PMID: 16574238 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbbm.2006.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2005] [Revised: 02/19/2006] [Accepted: 02/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A novel biological method used to evaluate free radical scavenging abilities of antioxidants using ultraviolet (UV) induction of bacteriophage lambda in lysogenic Escherichia coli kappa12 (lambda+) has been developed. This method is based on the induction of bacteriophage lambda from lysogenic cycle to lytic cycle by ultraviolet irradiation, and formation of free radicals during the course of induction. In the experiments, 10(8)cells/ml and 30s (39J/m2) were determined as the cell density of the lysogenic bacterium and UV irradiation time, respectively. The reliability of this method was demonstrated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and spin trapping with DMPO. This method had good reproducibility with intra-day variations (RSD, %) of less than 4% and inter-day variations (RSD, %) of less than 5%, respectively. By this method, the free radical scavenging abilities (ID50) of well-known antioxidants such as glutathione, superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and carotenoids were determined quantitatively. The results were consistent with the ones obtained by conventional methods for evaluating free radical scavenging abilities. This developed method is reliable and uses common instruments and inexpensive, stable reagents, thus it could be utilized as a routine laboratory quantitative assay to screen a large number of substances that have potential to scavenge the free radical.
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- Qiao Yang
- College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, PR China
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Hu RG, Sheng J, Qi X, Xu Z, Takahashi TT, Varshavsky A. The N-end rule pathway as a nitric oxide sensor controlling the levels of multiple regulators. Nature 2005; 437:981-6. [PMID: 16222293 DOI: 10.1038/nature04027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2005] [Accepted: 07/15/2005] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The conjugation of arginine to proteins is a part of the N-end rule pathway of protein degradation. Three amino (N)-terminal residues--aspartate, glutamate and cysteine--are arginylated by ATE1-encoded arginyl-transferases. Here we report that oxidation of N-terminal cysteine is essential for its arginylation. The in vivo oxidation of N-terminal cysteine, before its arginylation, is shown to require nitric oxide. We reconstituted this process in vitro as well. The levels of regulatory proteins bearing N-terminal cysteine, such as RGS4, RGS5 and RGS16, are greatly increased in mouse ATE1-/- embryos, which lack arginylation. Stabilization of these proteins, the first physiological substrates of mammalian N-end rule pathway, may underlie cardiovascular defects in ATE1-/- embryos. Our findings identify the N-end rule pathway as a new nitric oxide sensor that functions through its ability to destroy specific regulatory proteins bearing N-terminal cysteine, at rates controlled by nitric oxide and apparently by oxygen as well.
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- Rong-Gui Hu
- Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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Eaton GR, Eaton SS. EPR Spectrometers at Frequencies Below X-band. EPR: INSTRUMENTAL METHODS 2004. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8951-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is involved in a large number of cellular processes and dysfunctions in NO production have been implicated in many different disease states. In the vasculature NO is released by endothelial cells where it modulates the underlying smooth muscle to regulate vascular tone. Due to the unique chemistry of NO, such as its reactive and free radical nature, it can interact with many different cellular constituents such as thiols and transition metal ions, which determine its cellular actions. In this review we also discuss many of the useful pharmacological tools that have been developed and used extensively to establish the involvement of NO in endothelium-derived relaxations. In addition, the recent literature identifying a potential source of NO in endothelial cells, which is not directly derived from endothelial nitric oxide synthase is examined. Finally, the photorelaxation phenomena, which mediates the release of NO from a vascular smooth muscle NO store, is discussed.
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- Karen L Andrews
- Smooth Muscle Research Group, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada
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A growing number of studies suggest a key role of nitric oxide (NO) derived from the inducible NO synthase (iNOS) isoform as a signalling molecule leading to acute organ transplant rejection. Current theory suggests that NO targets certain tissue proteins for nitrosylation or nitration leading to inhibition of enzyme/protein function and to cell death via apoptosis. Gene expression of iNOS and formation of nitrotyrosine residues have been confirmed in biopsies of rejecting grafts in humans. Experimental attempts to delay graft rejection by treatment with iNOS enzyme inhibitors have yielded conflicting results. An alternative strategy to alter rejection mediated by NO is to scavenge and/or neutralise the actions of excess NO, thereby by-passing the inhibition of iNOS enzyme activity. This review summarises recent laboratory evidence that new experimental NO scavengers/neutralisers have potential value to prolong graft survival. To date, various metal-based NO scavenging/neutralising compounds have been shown to enhance cardiac allograft survival in the absence of immunosuppression. When used in combination with low-dose cyclosporin, these agents produce a synergistic action to enhance graft survival or even to produce "permanent graft survival" under certain prolonged drug regimens. A portion of this benefit may be accounted for by the property of some of these compounds to display immunosuppressant and anti-inflammatory activity in vivo. These properties are based on findings including the following: (i) attenuating cell infiltration into the graft; (ii) attenuating activation of NFkappaB (a transcription factor important for upregulation of various inflammatory genes); (iii) attenuating cyclin D3 gene expression (a marker of cell proliferation; (iv) antagonising autoimmune activation (as determined by attenuated cytokine gene expression in splenocytes isolated from treated animals but stimulated for several days ex vivo in mixed lymphocyte cultures).
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- Galen M Pieper
- Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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- Anthony R Butler
- School of Chemistry, Purdie Building, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland, UK.
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- Tetsuo Nagano
- Graduate School of Pharmacological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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- D J Lurie
- Department of Biomedical Physics and Bioengineering, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
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Kuppusamy P, Shankar RA, Roubaud VM, Zweier JL. Whole body detection and imaging of nitric oxide generation in mice following cardiopulmonary arrest: detection of intrinsic nitrosoheme complexes. Magn Reson Med 2001; 45:700-7. [PMID: 11283999 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ischemic tissues generate nitric oxide (NO) by direct reduction of tissue nitrite under the acidic conditions that occur during ischemia. In view of the important implications of this enzyme-independent mechanism of NO generation on the pathogenesis and treatment of tissue injury, the NO formation in mice subjected to cardiopulmonary arrest was measured and imaged. Real-time measurement of NO generation was performed by detection of naturally generated NO-heme complexes in tissues using L-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. To distinguish NO generated from nitrite, animals were labeled with isotopically enriched (15)N-nitrite. Mice were infused with nitrite (70 mg/kg, intravenous), cardiopulmonary arrest induced by an overdose of phenobarbital, and transferred to the EPR resonator. Measurements of NO generation were performed on the intact animal at the levels of the head, thorax, and abdomen. At the end of 3 hr, major organs were isolated and analyzed for their NO signal. The NO complexes were found to have maximum levels in lung, heart, and liver. Three-dimensional spatial mapping of the NO complex in the intact animal subjected to cardiopulmonary arrest was performed using EPR imaging techniques. The images also confirmed the maximum formation in the lungs, heart, and liver. The present data reveal that mice subjected to cardiopulmonary arrest generate large amounts of NO, which is nitrite mediated. The observed signal was largely due to heme-bound NO, which accounted for the high concentrations found in these organs. This increased NO formation during cardiopulmonary arrest could contribute to the difficulty of resuscitation after long periods of arrest. Magn Reson Med 45:700-707, 2001.
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- P Kuppusamy
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, and the EPR Center, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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