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ArticleCytotechnology2013

Anticlastogenic effect of β-glucan, extracted from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, on cultured cells exposed to ultraviolet radiation.

Ariane Fernanda da Silva, Rodrigo Juliano Oliveira, Andressa Megumi Niwa, Gláucia Fernanda Rocha D'Epiro, Lúcia Regina Ribeiro, Mário Sérgio Mantovani

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Article in Cytotechnology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ariane Fernanda da SilvaDepartamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Campus Universitário, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Rodrigo Juliano Oliveira
Andressa Megumi Niwa
Gláucia Fernanda Rocha D'Epiro
Lúcia Regina Ribeiro
Mário Sérgio Mantovani
Universidade Estadual de Londrina · BRUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) · BRUniversidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

β-glucan is an important polysaccharide due to its medicinal properties of stimulating the immune system and preventing chronic diseases such as cancer. The aim of the present study was to determine the anticlastogenic effect of β-glucan in cells exposed to ultraviolet radiation (UV). Chromosome aberration assay was performed in drug-metabolizing cells (HTC) and non drug-metabolizing cells (CHO-K1 and repair-deficient CHO-xrs5), using different treatment protocols. Continuous treatment (UV + β-glucan) was not effective in reducing the DNA damage only in CHO-xrs5 cells. However, the pre-treatment protocol (β-glucan before UV exposition) was effective in reducing DNA damage only in CHO-K1 cells. In post-treatment (β-glucan after UV exposition) did not show significative anticlastogenic effects, although there was a tendency toward prevention. The data suggest that β-glucan has more than one action mechanism, being capable of exerting desmutagenic as well as bio-antimutagenic action. The findings also suggest that the presence of the xenobiotic metabolizing system can reduce the chemopreventive capacity of β-glucan. Therefore, these results indicate that β-glucan from Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be used in the prevention and/or reduction of DNA damage.

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PMID22684537
PMCPMC3536881
OpenAlexW1963528127

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