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| BECHARA,ETELVINO J.H.; STEVANI,CASSIUS V.. |
| ABSTRACT Bioluminescence - visible and cold light emission by living organisms - is a worldwide phenomenon, reported in terrestrial and marine environments since ancient times. Light emission from microorganisms, fungi, plants and animals may have arisen as an evolutionary response against oxygen toxicity and was appropriated for sexual attraction, predation, aposematism, and camouflage. Light emission results from the oxidation of a substrate, luciferin, by molecular oxygen, catalyzed by a luciferase, producing oxyluciferin in the excited singlet state, which decays to the ground state by fluorescence emission. Brazilian Atlantic forests and Cerrados are rich in luminescent beetles, which produce the same luciferin but slightly mutated luciferases, which... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Coleoptera; Bioluminescence; Luciferase; Luciferin; Luminous termitary; Oxidative stress.. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652018000200663 |
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| Brihoum,Hadjer; Maiza,Mhamed; Sahali,Hafida; Boulmeltout,Malika; Barratt,Gillian; Benguedouar,Lamia; Lahouel,Mesbah. |
| Abstract The purpose of our study was to divulge the antiproliferative effect of an ethanolic extract of Algerian propolis (EEP) in the human lung adenocarcinoma cell line (A549) and reveal the chemopreventive role against benzo(a)pyrene-induced lung carcinogenesis in albino Wistar rats. Cytotoxicity of EEP was evaluated using the MTT assay and cell adhesion in A549 cells. Moreover, rats were given 25 mg/kg of propolis for 5 days before induction of experimental lung cancer by a single intraperitoneal dose of 200 mg/kg benzo(a)pyrene. Body weight, lung weight, lipid peroxidation, marker enzymes, and enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants were estimated. The EEP demonstrated an inhibitory effect on proliferation of A549 at 24 and 72 hours in a... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Algerian propolis/effects; Benzo(a)pyrene; Chemoprevention; Lung cancer; Oxidative stress.. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502018000100616 |
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