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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2014

Transcriptome Profiling of Wheat Seedlings following Treatment with Ultrahigh Diluted Arsenic Trioxide.

Ilaria Marotti, Lucietta Betti, Valeria Bregola, Sara Bosi, Grazia Trebbi, Giovanni Borghini, Daniele Nani, Giovanni Dinelli

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ilaria MarottiDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3630-5861
Lucietta BettiDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
Valeria BregolaDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4686-4504
Sara BosiDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2722-8390
Grazia TrebbiDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
Giovanni BorghiniDepartment of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "La Sapienza" University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Daniele NaniItalian National Health System, Lombardy District, "Azienda Sanitaria Locale" Milan, Corso Italia 19, 20122 Milan, Italy.
Giovanni DinelliDepartment of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
University of Bologna · ITAzienda Sanitaria Locale CN2 · ITSapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant systems are useful research tools to address basic questions in homeopathy as they make it possible to overcome some of the drawbacks encountered in clinical trials (placebo effect, ethical issues, duration of the experiment, and high costs). The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis whether 7-day-old wheat seedlings, grown from seeds either poisoned with a sublethal dose of As2O3 or unpoisoned, showed different significant gene expression profiles after the application of ultrahigh diluted As2O3 (beyond Avogadro's limit) compared to water (control). The results provided evidence for a strong gene modulating effect of ultrahigh diluted As2O3 in seedlings grown from poisoned seeds: a massive reduction of gene expression levels to values comparable to those of the control group was observed for several functional classes of genes. A plausible hypothesis is that ultrahigh diluted As2O3 treatment induced a reequilibration of those genes that were upregulated during the oxidative stress by bringing the expression levels closer to the basal levels normally occurring in the control plants.

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PMCPMC4265686
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