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The most proficient of the group is resveratrol, the plant polyphenol found in red wine, and its discovery as a potential elixir to combat ageing represents another extraordinary advance in a decade of discoveries that have revolutionised the field.
This might not be altogether surprising, at least not now, given that the polyphenol is already associated with health benefits in humans, notably the mitigation of such age-related defects as neurodegeneration, carcinogenesis, and atherosclerosis.
Rather, the decline in activated ERK 1/2 seen from days 2 to 4 of control cells, was effectively suppressed by resveratrol, suggesting that the polyphenol may act by affecting the stability of active ERK1/2 (Figure 6).
These studies showed that quin2-AM ([Ca 2+] inhibitor), added together with resveratrol, clearly abolished the endothelial cell shape change induced by the polyphenol.
One possibility centers on modulation of the number of focal contact adhesion sites, and/or the effective redistribution of the focal contacts, as well as the increased production of the EC-specific integrin complex, by resveratrol, all of which could contribute to the cardioprotective mechanism of this polyphenol.