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ArticleOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2012

A nonpolar blueberry fraction blunts NADPH oxidase activation in neuronal cells exposed to tumor necrosis factor-α.

Sally J Gustafson, Kriya L Dunlap, Colin M McGill, Thomas B Kuhn

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Article in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sally J GustafsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
Kriya L Dunlap
Colin M McGill
Thomas B Kuhn
University of Alaska Fairbanks · US

Funding

Rac-1 mediated superoxide signaling in neuronsU54NS041069 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI DUFFY, LAWRENCE K · 2000 to 2011
$14.1M
NINDS NIH HHS 1U54NS41069NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS041069
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation and oxidative stress are key to the progressive neuronal degeneration common to chronic pathologies, traumatic injuries, and aging processes in the CNS. The proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) orchestrates cellular stress by stimulating the production and release of neurotoxic mediators including reactive oxygen species (ROS). NADPH oxidases (NOX), ubiquitously expressed in all cells, have recently emerged as pivotal ROS sources in aging and disease. We demonstrated the presence of potent NOX inhibitors in wild Alaska bog blueberries partitioning discretely into a nonpolar fraction with minimal antioxidant capacity and largely devoid of polyphenols. Incubation of SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells with nonpolar blueberry fractions obstructed the coalescing of lipid rafts into large domains disrupting NOX assembly therein and abolishing ROS production characteristic for TNF-α exposure. These findings illuminate nutrition-derived lipid raft modulation as a novel therapeutic approach to blunt inflammatory and oxidative stress in the aging or diseased CNS.

Indexed as

Blueberry PlantsCell Line, TumorHumansNADPH OxidasesNeuronsOxidative StressPlant ExtractsReactive Oxygen SpeciesTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaNADPH OxidasesPlant ExtractsReactive Oxygen SpeciesTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID22530077
PMCPMC3317020
OpenAlexW2091560103

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