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Antioxidants alleviate electric field-induced effects on lung tissue based on assays of heme oxygenase-1, protein carbonyl content, malondialdehyde, nitric oxide, and hydroxyproline.
Güler G, Türközer Z, Ozgur E, Seyhan N. · 2009
View Original AbstractElectric fields 1,000 times stronger than typical environmental levels caused minimal lung tissue damage in this laboratory study.
Plain English Summary
Researchers exposed lung tissue to extremely strong electric fields (12,000 volts per meter) for 8 hours daily over 7 days to test whether antioxidants could prevent damage. They found only minor increases in one marker of cellular damage (protein carbonyl), while other damage indicators remained unchanged. The study suggests that at these exposure levels, electric fields cause minimal lung tissue damage that antioxidants may help prevent.
Study Details
In order to test whether antioxidants have beneficiary effects on electric field induced damage, we determined the pulmonary levels of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), protein carbonyl content (PCO), malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO) and hydroxyproline (HP) under extremely low frequency (ELF) electric (E) field exposure (50 Hz, 12 kV/m, 7 days/for 8 h/day).
While PCO levels significantly increased (p < 0.05), insignificant changes (p > 0.05) were observed ...
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@article{g_2009_antioxidants_alleviate_electric_fieldinduced_2846,
author = {Güler G and Türközer Z and Ozgur E and Seyhan N.},
title = {Antioxidants alleviate electric field-induced effects on lung tissue based on assays of heme oxygenase-1, protein carbonyl content, malondialdehyde, nitric oxide, and hydroxyproline. },
year = {2009},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969708010772},
}