Example sentences for: nitrotyrosine

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  • Additionally, it appears that the population sub-groups at greatest risk for gastric cancer have a limited ability to secrete ascorbic acid from the plasma through the mucosal and into the gastric lumen [ 30 ] . In a related study, supplementation with vitamin C reduces the degree of apoptosis and nitrotyrosine immunohistochemistry [ 13 ] , a marker of peroxynitrite formation [ 15 ] . NF-κB is activated in gastric epithelia with H. pylori infection, and clearance of this infection reduced NF-κB levels as well as expression of inducible nitric oxide [ 5 13 ] , thereby reducing the mucosal burden of nitric oxide and possibly peroxynitrite.

  • The resultant nitrotyrosine is used as a marker of peroxynitrite or at least nitration reactions in gastritis [ 13 ] , inflammatory bowel disease [ 15 16 ] as well as general inflammation [ 17 ] . While we have demonstrated that peroxynitrite-induced apoptosis of macrophages and colon epithelial cells is reduced by ascorbic acid [ 18 ] , it is not known if other dietary antioxidants exert similar benefits or if they are present in epithelial cells from the upper gastrointestinal tract.

  • The first proposes that the mutated SOD1 interacts with NO to produce peroxynitrite (ONOO -), which damages proteins by modifying tyrosine to nitrotyrosine residues [ 42 43 44 ] . The second postulates that the mutant SOD1 possesses an enhanced peroxidase activity, which causes oxidative modification of nucleic acids, proteins and lipids [ 45 46 47 ] . Both of these activities require copper at the active center of SOD1.

  • Previously, in Fabry disease, we have reported resting cerebral hyper-perfusion in a predominantly vertebro-basilar distribution together with abnormalities of vascular nitrotyrosine staining.


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