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Consistent with this idea, life-span extension in C. elegans is associated with increased expression of the gene encoding the mitochondrial antioxidant enzyme manganese-containing superoxide dismsutase (MnSOD) [ 22].
Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity of tissue homogenates was determined using a microplate adaptation of the ferricytochrome C reduction assay of Flohé and Ötting [ 26 ] . In this method, the reduction of cytochrome C by superoxide radicals is monitored at 550 nm utilizing the xanthine-xanthine oxidase system as the source for superoxide.
These enzymes convert the most common oxygen radical produced by the mitochondria, superoxide, into hydrogen peroxide and water.
To determine the effect of consumption of FOC on endogenous antioxidant enzyme activity, the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) were determined in the liver, colon and tumor of mice that had consumed the diet for two weeks.
A similar vascular hyper-responsiveness has been noted in caveolin-1 knock-out mice [ 25 26 ] raising the possibility that the accumulation of Gb 3 results in over-activity of uncoupled endothelial nitric oxide synthase within endothelial cell caveolae generating superoxide and other reactive oxygen species [ 27 ] . The latter may have a vasodilatatory effect [ 28 ] . Predominance of vascular abnormalities in the vertebro-basilar system in Fabry disease suggests fundamental biologic differences between the anterior and the posterior circulation.
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