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Purple Sweet Potato Pigments Scavenge ROS, Reduce p53 and Modulate Bcl-2/Bax to Inhibit Irradiation-induced Apoptosis in Murine Thymocytes
Author(s) -
Yantao Han,
Xuehong Chen,
Jing Xie,
Song-Mei Zhan,
Chunbo Wang,
Lexin Wang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
cellular physiology and biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.486
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1421-9778
pISSN - 1015-8987
DOI - 10.1159/000335801
Subject(s) - apoptosis , reactive oxygen species , viability assay , dichlorofluorescein , pigment , oxidative stress , chemistry , caspase 3 , microbiology and biotechnology , caspase , mtt assay , programmed cell death , western blot , biology , biochemistry , organic chemistry , gene
Purple sweet potato (PSP) pigments were proved to protect murine thymocytes from (60)Co γ-ray-induced mitochondria-mediated apoptosis in our previous study. In this study, we further investigated the effect of PSP pigments on apoptosis related ROS, p53 and Bcl-2 family.

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