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The Broad Spectrum of Responses to Oxidative Stress in Proliferating Cells
Proliferating mammalian cells exhibit a broad spectrum of responses to oxidative stress, depending on the stress level encountered. Very low levels...
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Low Molecular Weight Antioxidants
Low molecular weight antioxidants are an important part of the antioxidative defense mechanisms of cells and organisms. This chapter gives a short...
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Environmental Oxidative Stress – Environmental Sources of ROS
Environmental factors are known sources for oxidative stress. In consequence of the numerous influences that define our environment, environmental...
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Endogenous Oxidant-Generating Systems
Although organisms respiring air oxygen use their energy sources in an optimal way they are threatened by the compulsory formation of reactive oxygen...
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Glutathione
Glutathione is the most abundant non-protein thiol in cells. It is a tripeptide with two important structural features: the thiol group and the...
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Modulation of Cellular Signaling Processes by Reactive Oxygen Species
Exposure of cells to reactive oxygen species (ROS) may result not only in cell death by excessive oxidation of biomolecules but also cause the...
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Chemical Modifications of Biomolecules by Oxidants
There is strong evidence in support of the oxidation of biomolecules during normal physiology and under conditions of environmental or pathological...
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Superoxide Dismutases and Catalase
Superoxide dismutases (SODs) and catalase represent the primary enzymatic defense against reactive oxygen species. Both enzymes are present in...
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Protein Repair and Degradation
Protein oxidation is one of the important processes taking place during oxidative stress. Numerous amino acids can be modified within proteins...
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DNA Repair: Mechanisms and Measurements
The early findings that significant amounts of modifications are induced to the cellular DNA both spontaneously and as a consequence of metabolism...
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Mitochondrial Free Radical Production, Antioxidant Defenses and Cell Signaling
Mitochondria were classically recognized as the organelles that produce the energy required to drive the endergonic processes of cell life, but now...
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Effect of modified Baduan** exercise on nutritional status in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundAs a traditional Chinese fitness technique, Baduan** is a low- to medium-intensity aerobic exercise that has a common regulatory effect on...
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Assessment of the American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (ACR TI-RADS™) with modification of the management recommendations for pediatric thyroid nodules
BackgroundThyroid nodules are unusual in children, but when present, they carry a higher risk for malignancy, as compared to adults. Several...
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Breaking the silence: the role of sexual communication on quality of life in women with cervical cancer
IntroductionCervical cancer (CC) and its treatments impact various dimensions of quality of life (QoL), including physical, psychological, and sexual...
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The black box of the relationship between breast cancer patients and accompanying patients: the accompanied patients’ point of view
BackgroundThe PAROLE-Onco program was introduced in the province of Quebec, Canada in 2019. It integrates accompanying patients (APs), i.e., people...
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“Not me!” a qualitative, vignette-based study of nurses’ and physicians’ reactions to spiritual distress on neuro-oncological units
PurposePeople with primary malignant brain tumors experience serious health-related suffering caused by limited prognosis and high symptom burden....
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Operative Therapie des Vulva- und Vaginalkarzinoms
Surgical treatment of cancer of the vulva and vagina is an important part of therapy. Complete removal of the tumour with an adequate safety margin...
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Transperineal laser ablation (TPLA) of the prostate for benign prostatic obstruction: the first 100 patients cohort of a prospective, single-center study
PurposeTransperineal laser ablation (TPLA) is a new minimally-invasive surgical treatment for patients with benign prostatic obstruction (BPO). We...
