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Rezaei S, Meftah HS, Ebtehajpour Y, Rahimi HR, Chamani J. Investigation on the Effect of Fluorescence Quenching of Calf Thymus DNA by Piperine: Caspase Activation in the Human Breast Cancer Cell Line Studies. DNA Cell Biol 2024; 43:26-38. [PMID: 38079271 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2023.0269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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In this study, we determined the interaction of piperine and calf thymus DNA (ct DNA) in Tris-HCl buffer solution at pH = 6.8 and also evaluated the binding mechanism through the data of multi-spectroscopic techniques along with thermal melting and viscosity measurements. The outcomes of fluorescence quenching confirmed the occurrence of interactions between piperine and ctDNA and pointed out the role of piperine as the quencher. In addition, the KSV values were measured at three different temperatures of 298, 303, and 308 K to be 4.5 × 107 M-1, 5.65 × 107 M-1, and 9.36 × 107 M-1, respectively, which suggested the dominance of dynamic mechanism as the fluorescence quenching of piperine-ctDNA. The thermodynamic parameters revealed the predominance of hydrophobic forces in the interaction of ctDNA with piperine. According to the resonance light scattering data, the formation of a complex between piperine and ctDNA led to the creation of a larger particle. Ethidium bromide (EB) and acridine orange (AO) displacement studies, along with the ionic effects of NaCl and KI assessments, confirmed the interaction of piperine-ctDNA through a groove binding mode. The melting temperature assay of ctDNA upon the addition of piperine concentration indicated the probable groove binding of piperine to ctDNA, which was affirmed by relative viscosity measurement as well. The lack of detecting any alterations in the circular dichroism (CD) spectrum of CD investigation verified as a characteristic sign of groove binding mechanism and also confirmed all the experimental results with regard to the binding of piperine-ctDNA complex. Next to observing a concentration and time-dependent cytotoxicity in MDA-MB-231 cells, the impact of piperine on increasing lipid peroxidation and decreasing the activity of superoxide dismutase was also noticed. Apparently, piperine is capable of inducing caspase-3 activity as well.
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- Sakineh Rezaei
- Department of Biology, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Biology, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Biology, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Biology, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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Tunali T, Yarat A, Bulut M, Emekli N. 6,7-Dihydroxy-3-phenylcoumarin inhibits thromboplastin induced disseminated intravascular coagulation. Br J Haematol 2004; 126:226-30. [PMID: 15238144 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.05033.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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6,7-Dihydroxy-3-phenylcoumarin (DHPC) was tested to determine whether it had any effect on vitamin K inhibition, by investigating the prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), fibrinogen level and platelet count. The anticoagulant and antithrombotic effects of DHPC were compared with those of warfarin by conducting a 4 h acute trial on thromboplastin-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), investigating various haemostatic and antioxidant system parameters and performing a haemogram. Of most significance was that in the 5-d DHPC trial on healthy controls, PT, APTT, fibrinogen, platelet count remained within normal levels. In the 4-h DIC trial, both DHPC (0.025 mg/kg, i.v.) and warfarin (0.25 mg/kg, i.v.) significantly inhibited DIC, by reducing the PT, APTT, and fibrin degradation products and increasing fibrinogen levels and platelet count. In the DIC drug groups, lipid peroxidation significantly increased only in the warfarin group and glutathione significantly increased only in the DHPC group. However leucocyte count was significantly higher in the DHPC than the warfarin group. Further investigation is required for why DHPC is effective on the parameters investigated, at doses one-tenth of those of warfarin.
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- Tugba Tunali
- Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Biochemistry, Marmara University, Nisantasi, Turkey.
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Million M, Fioramonti J, Zajac JM, Buéno L. Effects of neuropeptide FF on intestinal motility and temperature changes induced by endotoxin and platelet-activating factor. Eur J Pharmacol 1997; 334:67-73. [PMID: 9346330 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(97)01142-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Several effects of bacterial endotoxins involve an opioid pathway and neuropeptide FF is an endogenous peptide known to modulate opioid activity, mainly in the central nervous system. The aim of this study was to investigate in rats the role of central neuropeptide FF receptors in intestinal motor disturbances and body temperature changes induced by endotoxins and platelet-activating factor (PAF), a major endotoxin mediator. Rats were fitted with intestinal electrodes, an intraperitoneal thermistor probe and an intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) cannula for long-term use. E. coli endotoxin (100 microg/kg, i.v.) disrupted the cyclic pattern of intestinal migrating myoelectric complexes and induced a biphasic increase in body temperature while PAF (25 microg/kg, i.p.) disrupted the migrating myoelectric complexes and induced hypothermia for about 2 h. The neuropeptide FF analog, (1 DME)Y8Fa (D-Tyr-D-Leu[N-Me]-Phe-Gln-Pro-Gln-Arg-Phe-NH2) administered i.c.v. 40 and 100 microg/kg reduced the duration of migrating myoelectric complex disruption induced by endotoxin and PAF and abolished the PAF-induced hypothermia. Only at the dose of 100 microg/kg did (1 DME)Y8Fa change the biphasic endotoxin-induced hyperthermia into a monophasic increase. Naloxone (1 mg/kg, s.c.) reduced only the duration of migrating myoelectric complex disruption induced by endotoxin. These results indicate that central neuropeptide FF modulates the intestinal motor disturbances and changes in body temperature induced by endotoxin and PAF. Its action against endotoxin may involve an anti-opioid pathway whereas its action against PAF does not.
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- M Million
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, INRA, Toulouse, France
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Kawabata A, Hata T. Possible involvement of oxygen-derived free radicals in abnormal hemostasis induced by SART stress (repeated cold stress) in laboratory animals. Thromb Res 1993; 72:321-31. [PMID: 8303672 DOI: 10.1016/0049-3848(93)90141-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Abnormal hemostatic profiles indicating hemorrhagic tendency have been reported in rodents exposed to prolonged fluctuation in ambient temperature, known as SART (specific alternation of rhythm in temperature)-stressed animals. In this study, investigation was made of possible involvement of oxygen-derived free radicals in the development of stress-induced hemostatic alteration. SART-stressed rats and mice exhibited marked decrease in platelet count, fibrinogen level and factor VIII:C activity. Superoxide dismutase, when administered s.c. twice a day to mice for 7 days of stress exposure, inhibited the above alterations. Catalase given in the same manner, had essentially the same effect, though to a lesser extent. Allopurinol administered orally once daily during stress reduced stress-induced thrombocytopenia, but caused considerable increase in fibrinogen and factor VIII:C activity in stressed and unstressed mice. Lipid peroxide significantly increased in the heart but not in the plasma following stress exposure in rats and mice. Active oxygens would thus appear to be, at least partially, involved in the development of abnormal hemostasis induced by SART stress.
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- A Kawabata
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Japan
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Oya Y, Takenaka A, Ochi T, Yamamoto K. The biological activity of hydrogen peroxide. V. The crystal structure of a histidine-peroxide adduct and its biological activities. Mutat Res 1992; 266:281-9. [PMID: 1373837 DOI: 10.1016/0027-5107(92)90195-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Crystals were prepared from a mixture of L-histidine (L-His) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and tested for biological activity in human embryonic fibroblasts. The crystal structure was determined by X-ray diffraction to be that of an adduct, in which the H2O2 molecule forms a OH-N hydrogen bond with N delta of the side chain of L-His. A 10-min treatment with this adduct in solution (25-150 microM) induced more marked chromosomal aberrations and more single-strand breaks (SSB) in DNA than H2O2 itself, and these effects were generated in a dose-dependent manner. With respect to the induction of dicentric and ring chromosomes (Dic and Ring), a maximum frequency of 1.3 per cell was obtained at 75 microM. This maximum level of induction by the adduct was 6-7 times higher than that by H2O2 and was comparable to that by the mixture of L-His and H2O2 which we observed in our previous studies. The most effective dose for such induction by the adduct was also similar to that of L-His in the mixture. Cell growth was inhibited more strongly by the adduct than by H2O2 alone after a 60-min treatment at 75 microM, although there was not much difference between their effects after a 10-min treatment at 75 microM. The reactive factors derived from the adduct were the same as those in the mixture, and are suggested to be derivatives of H2O2, hydroxyl radicals (.OH) and/or singlet oxygen (1O2). Thus the patterns of induction and kinetics of the biological activities of the adduct were very similar to those of the mixture, but not to those of H2O2. These results suggest that the formation of the adduct plays an important role in the enhancement of the expression of the biological activity of H2O2 by the coadministration of L-His and H2O2, which we observed in our previous study.
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- Y Oya
- Department of Pathology, Kanagawa Prefectural College of Nursing and Medical Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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Pons L, Droy-Lefaix MT, Braquet P, Bueno L. Role of free radicals and platelet-activating factor in the genesis of intestinal motor disturbances induced by Escherichia coli endotoxins in rats. Gastroenterology 1991; 100:946-53. [PMID: 1672116 DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(91)90268-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The effects of IV administration of Escherichia coli endotoxin on intestinal myoelectric activity was investigated in conscious fasted rats chronically implanted with nichrome electrodes in the duodenojejunum. These effects were compared with those of platelet-activating factor and were evaluated in animals pretreated with a specific platelet-activating factor antagonist, BN 52021, indomethacin, a selective prostaglandin E2 antagonist, SC 19220, and several free radical scavengers. Intravenous administration of endotoxin (E. coli S.O111:B4) at a dose of 50 micrograms/kg suppressed the migrating myoelectric complexes, which were replaced by continuous rhythmic clusters of rapidly propagated spike bursts for 114.7 +/- 19.9 minutes. Intraperitoneal platelet-activating factor (25 micrograms/kg) also inhibited the migrating myoelectric complex pattern for 146.1 +/- 24.1 minutes. Previous IV administration of BN 52021 (50 mg/kg-1) abolished the motor alterations induced by platelet-activating factor and significantly reduced to 43.1 +/- 12.2 minutes those induced by endotoxin (P less than 0.01). Indomethacin (10 mg/kg IP), injected before endotoxin or platelet-activating factor, also significantly reduced the duration of migrating myoelectric complex inhibition to 45.6 +/- 7.8 and 47.7 +/- 8.3 minutes, respectively (P less than 0.01). SC 19220 significantly reduced the effects of platelet-activating factor from 151.8 +/- 26.4 to 67.4 +/- 14.7 min (P less than 0.01). Superoxide dismutase (15,000 U/kg IV) injected before either endotoxin or platelet-activating factor shortened the migrating myoelectric complex inhibition to 45.7 +/- 9.9 and 72.9 +/- 10.4 minutes, respectively (P less than 0.01). Allopurinol and dimethylsulfoxide administered orally at 50 mg/kg 1 hour before endotoxin reduced the migrating myoelectric complex inhibition to 42.5 +/- 6.5 and 38.2 +/- 6.4 minutes, respectively (P less than 0.01). They also reduced platelet-activating factor-induced intestinal myoelectric alterations to 68.5 +/- 10.6 and 31.7 +/- 6.1 minutes, respectively (P less than 0.01). It is concluded that endogenous release of platelet-activating factor is partly responsible for the intestinal motor alterations induced by endotoxin, these effects being also mediated through the release of prostaglandins and free radicals. However, prostaglandins, as well as free radicals, appear to be partly involved in the platelet-activating factor-induced action of E. coli endotoxin on intestinal motility.
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- L Pons
- Department of Pharmacology-Toxicology, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France
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Harenberg J, Heene DL. Pharmacology and special clinical applications of low-molecular-weight heparins. Am J Hematol 1988; 29:233-40. [PMID: 3055954 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.2830290412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In this overview, the rationale of the development of low-molecular-weight (LMW) heparins and their toxicological, anticoagulant, fibrinolytic, lipolytic, and protamine interactions are summarized. Clinical experiences are reviewed on the benefit of LMW heparin for anticoagulation in patients with bleeding and other complications on conventional anticoagulants and during pregnancy. It is concluded that animal experiments have demonstrated the safety of LMW heparins, that the pharmacologic profile is improved compared with normal heparin, and that the simple and safe applicability of LMW heparins gives rise to new indications for the long-term prophylaxis of thromboembolism.
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- J Harenberg
- First Department of Medicine, Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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The effect of endotoxin on the colon glutathione level was studied in male rats. Endotoxin (Escherichia coli) from 25 ug to 100 ug/100g body weight was administered intravenously. The Glutathione level was measured 16 hours after endotoxin was given. Results showed that endotoxin significantly enhanced the colon glutathione concentration as measured by 5,5'-dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoic acid). The increase which ranged from 11% to 50% was dose dependent. At an endotoxin dose of 1000 ug/100g body weight, colon glutathione level was found to be enhanced from 2 hours up to 48 hours. In contrast, the duodenum and jejunum glutathione levels were found to be significantly reduced. The increase in the colon glutathione level may have a protective effect against oxidative damage to the colon.
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- M F Chen
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa 33612-4799
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Microcirculatory Disturbances in Endotoxin-Induced Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1988. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-8935-4_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Yoshikawa T, Yoshida N, Miyagawa H, Tanigawa T, Takemura T, Morita Y, Sugino S, Kondo M. Role of oxygen radicals in endotoxin shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation. BASIC LIFE SCIENCES 1988; 49:933-40. [PMID: 3250542 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-5568-7_152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- T Yoshikawa
- First Department of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan
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Clark IA, Hunt NH, Cowden WB. Oxygen-derived free radicals in the pathogenesis of parasitic disease. ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY 1986; 25:1-44. [PMID: 3022568 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-308x(08)60341-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Yoshikawa T, Murakami M, Kondo M. Endotoxin-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation in vitamin E deficient rats. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1984; 74:173-8. [PMID: 6740668 DOI: 10.1016/0041-008x(84)90140-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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The effect of vitamin E on endotoxin-induced experimental disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) was studied in rats deficient in and supplemented with vitamin E. Experimental DIC was induced by a 4-hr sustained infusion of endotoxin at a dose of 13.3 mg/kg. After the infusion, fibrinogen and fibrin degradation products were increased, platelet count and fibrinogen level were decreased, and prothrombin time and partial thromboplastin time were prolonged. In addition, the number of renal glomeruli with fibrin thrombi was increased. These changes were significantly greater in vitamin E deficient rats when compared to those changes found in rats supplemented with vitamin E. These results indicate that vitamin E plays a protective role in endotoxin-induced DIC.
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