Effects of systemic glucocorticosteroids on peripheral neutrophil functions in asthmatic subjects: an ex vivo study by P. L. Paggiaro, L. Bancalari, D. Giannessi, W. Bernini, G. Lazzerini, R. Sicari, E. Bacci, F. L. Dente, B. Vagaggini, R. De Caterina

“…During acute exacerbation, superoxide anion generation was higher in asthmatics than in eleven normal subjects (39.2 ± 14.1 vs. 25.2 ± 7.3 nmol, p < 0.05); there was a significant correlation between FEV1 (% of predicted) and neutrophil chemotaxis (r = −0.52, p = 0.04). …”
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Blue light irradiation combined with low-temperature storage further enhances postharvest quality of strawberries through improving antioxidant defense and cell wall metabolic acti... by Wei Lu, Wanqing Li, Keke Zhao, Xiaofeng Bai, Yuchang Zhang, Qingyun Li, Zhanjun Xue, Xin-Xin Wang

“…Additionally, increases of the enzymatic activities of antioxidant defense metabolism (e.g. superoxide dismutase (SOD) and peroxidase (POD)) accompanied with decreased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) (e.g. superoxide anion (O2−), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)) and the content of secondary metabolites (e.g. ascorbic acid (AsA)) accompanied with enhanced activities of ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and glutathione reductase (GR) were found in BL irradiated postharvest strawberries at the later stages of storage. …”
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Effect Of Exercise Therapy on Lipid Profile and Oxidative Stress Indicators in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Madeeha Jadoon, Shazia Zeb, Sajid Razaq, Munazza Khan, Muhammad Shoaib, Sara Mariyum

“…The total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and the antioxidants enzymes; superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and catalase all increased (p = 0. 021, 0. 035, 0. 022 and 0. 015) and increased the body’s ability to fight oxidative stress. …”
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Culturing of Giardia lamblia under microaerobic conditions can impact metronidazole susceptibility by inducing increased expression of antioxidant enzymes by Kateryna Starynets, Ana Paunkov, Anja Wagner, Klaus Kratochwill, Christian Klotz, David Leitsch

“…Moreover, similarly overexpressed superoxide reductase conferred significant protection against metronidazole.Our results suggest that oxygen concentrations can affect the outcomes of metronidazole treatment against G. lamblia.…”
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Cross-Stressful Adaptation to Drought and High Salinity Is Related to Variable Antioxidant Defense, Proline Metabolism, and <i>Dehydrin b</i> Expression in White Clover by Yao Ling, Duo Wang, Yan Peng, Dandan Peng, Zhou Li

“…Both salt stress and drought resulted in significant increases in electrolyte leakage and contents of superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, and malonaldehyde due to reduced superoxide dismutase, peroxide, and catalase, as well as key enzyme activities in the ascorbate–glutathione cycle. …”
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Synergistic Effect of Quercetin and α-Lipoic Acid on Aluminium Chloride Induced Neurotoxicity in Rats by Sooad Saud Al-Otaibi, Maha Mohamad Arafah, Bechan Sharma, Abdullah Salih Alhomida, Nikhat Jamal Siddiqi

“…This was accompanied with significant decreases in reduced glutathione, activities of the glutathione reductase, and superoxide dismutase. Pretreatment of AlCl3 exposed rats to either quercetin or α-lipoic acid also restored altered lipid peroxidation and superoxide dismutase to near normal levels. …”
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Effects of kelp phlorotannins on the growth, immunity, intestinal health and disease resistance against Vibrio splendidus of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus by Zhikai Zhang, Yan Chi, Yongheng Du, Feng Li, Ning Ma, Song Qin

“…On one hand, dietary phlorotannins significantly increased total coelomocytes counts, phagocytosis, superoxide anion production (P < 0.05). On the other hand, the total antioxidant capacity and the activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase in coelomocytes lysis were significantly raised by phlorotannins while the malondialdehyde level was significantly reduced (P < 0.05). …”
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Exposure of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies to imidacloprid impairs larval development, promotes oxidative stress in pupae, and induces changes in the midgut of adult... by Daiani Rodrigues Moreira, Tuan Henrique Smielevski de Souza, Douglas Galhardo, Cinthia Leão Figueira, Samara Calvi Baulli, Breno Gabriel da Silva, Francieli das Chagas, José Washington Santos Oliveira, Jean Samel Rocha, Angélica de Souza Khatlab, Eliane Gasparino, Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de Toledo, Adriana Aparecida Sinópolis Gigliolli, Maria Claudia Colla Ruvolo-Takasusuki

“…Oxidative stress analyses revealed that IMDCF-exposed larvae had higher nitrite and carbonylated protein contents and lower catalase and superoxide dismutase activity than control individuals. …”
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Photochemical reactivity of zinc tetraphenylporphyrin induced by nonstoichiometric CdS nanoparticles in 2-propanol by Alex V. Isarov, John Chrysochoos

“…Intermediate paramagnetic species monitored by EPR spectroscopy (g=2.0029,ΔH=5.7G) were characterized as superoxides formed in the reaction of ZnTPP•− with O2. …”
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Tofersen and other antisense oligonucleotides in ALS by Albert Ludolph, Maximilian Wiesenfarth

“…Nusinersen treatment was a breakthrough intervention in the recessive disease spinal muscular atrophy, and superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) seems to be the paradigm disease in dominant degenerative diseases. …”
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Curdlan sulphate modulates protein synthesis and enhances NF-κB and C/EBP binding activity in HepG2 cells by A. Guzdek, H. Rokita

“…Curdlan sulphate may, at least in part, affect protein synthesis at a pretranslational level, as the expression of ACT mRNA was found to be increased, whereas intracellular enzyme, manganese superoxide dismutase mRNA level was decreased in the cell culture treated with curdlan sulphate. …”
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Trade-Off Between Enzymatic Antioxidant Defense and Accumulation of Organic Metabolite Affects Salt Tolerance of White Clover Associated with Redox, Water, and Metabolic Homeostase... by Min Zhou, Yuting Wu, Yuchen Yang, Yan Yuan, Junnan Lin, Long Lin, Zhou Li

“…Results demonstrated that salt stress significantly induced chlorophyll loss, water imbalance, and accumulations of malondialdehyde (MDA), hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), and superoxide anion (O₂^.−), resulting in reduced cell membrane stability in two types of white clovers. …”
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A Study on the Dietary Yeast Polysaccharide Supplementation in Growth Performance, Antioxidant Capacity, and Immunity of Juvenile Largemouth Bass (<i>Micropterus salmoides</i>) by Junjie Qin, Haifeng Mi, Mingchun Ren, Dongyu Huang, Hualiang Liang, Lu Zhang, Tao Teng, Heng Yin

“…Plasma antioxidant indices (total antioxidant capacity, superoxide dismutase, and glutathione) and antioxidant genes (catalase and superoxide dismutase) were elevated in the 0.05Y or 0.10Y groups, and the malondialdehyde content decreased with increasing YPS concentration. …”
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The influence of monosodium glutamate on the development of oxidative-nitrosative stress in the large cerebral hemispheres of rats under the combination of a change in the “light-d... by O. A. Volkova, O. Ye. Akimov, V. O. Kostenko

“…In a 10 % homogenate of the large cerebral hemispheres, we determined the rate of superoxide anion radical (SAR) production, the content of products that react with thiobarbituric acid (TBA-reactants), their increase, activity of catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), concentration of nitrites, peroxynitrites, total activity of NO-synthase (NOS), its constitutive (cNOS) and inducible (iNOS) isoforms. …”
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Effects of Dietary Supplementation with <i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i> Postbiotics on Growth Performance, Intestinal Flora Structure and Plasma Metabolome of Weaned Piglets by Dongfeng Sun, Wenfei Tong, Shaochen Han, Mengjun Wu, Peng Li, Youguo Li, Yunxiang Liang

“…The levels of total superoxide dismutase in the serum, propionic acid and butyric acid in the feces were elevated, and the content of malondialdehyde in the serum was decreased with <i>Lactobacillus reuteri</i> postbiotics-treated piglets (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Unraveling the redox code to improve physiological research in human health and disease by Josh Thorley

“…Oxygen, vital for aerobic metabolism, also produces reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide. While historically seen as harmful, ROS at low concentrations are now recognized as key regulators of cell signaling. …”
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Toxicity assessment of advanced biological wastewater treatment plant effluent by integrated biomarker response in zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) by Serdar Osman, Ketenalp Zozan, Yildirim Nuran Cikcikoglu

“…At the end of the 96th hour, antioxidant parameters such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), glutathione S-transferase (GST), malondialdehyde (MDA) and glutathione (GSH) were examined. …”
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Grammatophyllum speciosum Ethanolic Extract Promotes Wound Healing in Human Primary Fibroblast Cells by Saraporn Harikarnpakdee, Verisa Chowjarean

“…Besides, the extract was able to scavenge DPPH, ABTS, and superoxide anion radicals indicating the antioxidative property of GSE. …”
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Effects of the Bacterial Extract OM-85 on Phagocyte Functions and the Stress Response by S. Baladi, S. Kantengwa, Y. R. A. Donati, B. S. Polla

“…Whereas OM-85 stimulated superoxide production and increased Ca2+ mobilization, it fared to induce synthesis of classical HSPs. …”
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Responses of Phospholipase D and Antioxidant System to Mechanical Wounding in Postharvest Banana Fruits by Li Li, Xuemei He, Jian Sun, Changbao Li, Dongning Ling, Jinfeng Sheng, Fengjin Zheng, Guoming Liu, Jiemin Li, Yayuan Tang, Ping Yi, Ming Xin, Zhichun Li, Zhugui Zhou

“…The concentrations of reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide anion (O2•-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in fruits increased under mechanical wounding. …”
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