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Maiuolo J, Nucera S, Serra M, Caminiti R, Oppedisano F, Macrì R, Scarano F, Ragusa S, Muscoli C, Palma E, Mollace V. Cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. Possess Important Beneficial Properties Dependent on Their Different Stages of Maturity. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 13:1365. [PMID: 38794436 PMCID: PMC11124804 DOI: 10.3390/plants13101365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2024] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
Abstract
Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. belongs to the Cactaceae family and the genus Opuntia; it is a succulent plant that adapts to extreme climatic conditions. The aerial part of the plant consists of the cladodes, morphological changes of branches that appear green, are covered with thorns, and are essential to reduce excessive perspiration of water. The composition of cladodes is very varied, and the main constituents are water, fibers, polysaccharides, proteins, fatty acids, vitamins, sterols, minerals, and polyphenols. Polyphenols are responsible for many beneficial activities for human health, such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and nutritional properties. The purpose of this manuscript was to compare the properties of cladodes belonging to the same plant but with different stages of maturity. Relative extracts were tested both in vitro and on a cell line and antioxidant and anti-apoptotic properties were found. The antioxidant activity was tested by the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) test, the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazil (DPPH) test, and the measurement of cellular accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Anti-apoptotic activity was evaluated by the annexin/PI assay and measurement of caspases 9 and 3 expression. The results obtained showed that the extracts considered possess antioxidant and anti-apoptotic properties. However, the different stages of maturity of cladodes are essential for the performance of both functions. In addition, important variations were made in the dissolution of the extracts that brought greater safety in their use. In conclusion, this manuscript provides further information on cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica, which can be used as adjuvants in many human pathologies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jessica Maiuolo
- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- PLANTA/Research, Documentation and Training Center, Via Serraglio Vecchio 28, 90123 Palermo, Italy;
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
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- IRC-FSH Center, Department of Health Sciences, University “Magna Græcia” of Catanzaro, Germaneto, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy; (S.N.); (M.S.); (R.C.); (F.O.); (R.M.); (F.S.); (C.M.); (E.P.); (V.M.)
- Fondazione R. Dulbecco, 88046 Lamezia Terme, Italy
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Ghosh R, León-Ruiz M, Das S, Mandal A, Roy D, Benito-León J. Multifocal neuraxial involvement in acute methanol intoxication: A series of two patients from rural India. NEUROLOGY PERSPECTIVES 2023; 3:100114. [PMID: 36908756 PMCID: PMC9997756 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurop.2023.100114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- R Ghosh
- Department of General Medicine, Burdwan Medical College and
Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
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- Section of Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of
Neurology, University Hospital "La Paz", Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Neuromedicine, Bangur Institute of
Neurosciences (BIN), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of General Medicine, Burdwan Medical College and
Hospital, Burdwan, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS), Patna, Bihar, India
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, Tamil Nadu,
India
- School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University,
New Delhi, India
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital "12 de
Octubre", Madrid, Spain
- Department of Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid,
Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
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Zhou S, Li J, Zhang X, Xiong W. MicroRNA-124 modulates neuroinflammation in acute methanol poisoning rats via targeting Krüppel-like factor-6. Bioengineered 2022; 13:13507-13519. [PMID: 35658788 PMCID: PMC9275938 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2022.2078549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Microglia activation-stimulated neuroinflammation exerts functionally in neurodegenerative diseases like brain injury. Acute methanol poisoning (AMP) is a crucial cause of death and morbidity that possibly leads to neuroinflammation. Studies have manifested that miRNAs can modulate microglia activation to mediate neuroinflammation. Nevertheless, the role of miR-124 in AMP-stimulated neuroinflammation is uncertain. This research was to explore the action of miR-124 in AMP-stimulated neuroinflammation and its molecular mechanism. The study findings indicated that AMP accelerated microglia activation and stimulated inflammation and oxidative stress in brain tissue of rats. MiR-124 expression was lowered in AMP rats, while KLF6 expression was elevated. Elevated miR-124 or repressed KLF6 increased the number of CD206+ cells and decreased the number of CD68+ cells, as well as restrained inflammation and NF-κB phosphorylation and induced superoxide dismutase, Nrf2/HO-1, and M2 polarization. MiR-124 modulated microglia activation via targeting KLF6. AMP repressed neuronal viability and enhanced neuronal apoptosis. Suppression of miR-124 further promoted AMP-induced damage to neurons, while inhibition of KLF6 turned around this phenomenon. Anyway, our study demonstrated that miR-124 accelerates M2 polarization via targeting KLF6 to ameliorate AMP-stimulated neuronal damage.
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- Shu Zhou
- Department of Emergency, Liuyang People’s Hospita, Liuyang City, Hunan Province, China
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- Department of Emergency, Liuyang People’s Hospita, Liuyang City, Hunan Province, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Liuyang People’s Hospita, Liuyang City, Hunan Province, China
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- Department of Emergency, Liuyang People’s Hospita, Liuyang City, Hunan Province, China,CONTACT Wen Xiong Department of Emergency, Liuyang People’s Hospital, No. 452, Daowushan West Road, Liuyang City, Hunan Province410300, China
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Hlusicka J, Mana J, Vaneckova M, Kotikova K, Diblik P, Urban P, Navratil T, Marechal B, Kober T, Zakharov S. MRI-based brain volumetry and retinal optical coherence tomography as the biomarkers of outcome in acute methanol poisoning. Neurotoxicology 2020; 80:12-19. [PMID: 32554081 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2020.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Basal ganglia lesions are typical findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain in survivors of acute methanol poisoning. However, no data are available on the association between the magnitude of damaged brain regions, serum concentrations of markers of acute methanol toxicity, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and the rate of retinal nerve ganglion cell loss. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between MRI-based volumetry of the basal ganglia, retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness and prognostic laboratory markers of outcomes in acute methanol poisoning. METHODS MRI-based volumetry of putamen, nucleus caudatus and globus pallidus was performed and compared with laboratory parameters of severity of poisoning and acute serum markers of oxidative damage of lipids (8-isoprostan, MDA, HHE, HNE), nucleic acids (8-OHdG, 8-OHG, 5-OHMU), proteins (o-Thyr, NO-Thyr, Cl-Thyr) and leukotrienes (LTC4, LTD4, LTE4, LTB4), as well as with the results of RNFL measurements by optic coherence tomography (OCT) in 16 patients with acute methanol poisoning (Group I) and in 28 survivors of poisoning two years after discharge with the same markers measured within the follow-up examination (Group II). The control group consisted of 28 healthy subjects without methanol poisoning. RESULTS The survivors of acute methanol poisoning had significantly lower volumes of basal ganglia than the controls. The patients with MRI signs of methanol-induced toxic brain damage had significantly lower volumes of basal ganglia than those without these signs. A positive correlation was found between the volume of putamen and arterial blood pH on admission (r = 0.45; p = 0.02 and r = 0.44; p = 0.02 for left and right putamen, correspondingly). A negative correlation was present between the volumes of putamen and acute serum lactate (r = -0.63; p < 0.001 and r = -0.59; p = 0.01), creatinine (r = -0.53; p = 0.01 and r = -0.47; p = 0.01) and glucose (r = -0.55; p < 0.001 and r = -0.50; p = 0.01) concentrations. The volume of basal ganglia positively correlated with acute concentrations of markers of lipoperoxidation (8-isoprostan: r = 0.61; p < 0.05 and r = 0.59; p < 0.05 for left and right putamen, correspondingly) and inflammation (leukotriene LTB4: r = 0.61; p < 0.05 and r = 0.61; p < 0.05 for left and right putamen, correspondingly). The higher the volume of the basal ganglia, the higher the thickness of the RNFL, with the strongest positive association between global RNFL and the volume of putamen bilaterally (all p < 0.01). In the follow-up markers of oxidative stress and inflammation, only o-Thyr concentration negatively correlated with the volume of putamen bilaterally (r = -0.39; p < 0.05 and r = -0.37; p < 0.05 for left and right putamen, correspondingly). CONCLUSION In survivors of acute methanol poisoning with signs of toxic brain damage, the magnitude of affected areas correlated with acute parameters of severity of poisoning, markers of oxidative stress and neuroinflammation. There was a positive association between the basal ganglia volume and the thickness of RNFL, making OCT an important screening test and MRI-based volumetry the confirmative diagnostic method for the detection of CNS sequelae of methanol poisoning.
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- Jiri Hlusicka
- Toxicological Information Centre, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Radiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Toxicological Information Centre, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ophthalmology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Centre for Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic
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- J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS 5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS 5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Toxicological Information Centre, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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