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Antioxidant capacity of silica hydride: a combinational photosensitization and fluorescence detection assay.

Abstract
Utilizing a novel combinational technique incorporating spectrafluorometry and photosensitization, this analysis determined cell viability and cytotoxicity through the introduction of reactive oxygen species and measurement of plasma membrane integrity. Chinese hamster ovary and mouse hybridoma cells were treated with silica hydride after being photosensitized with singlet oxygen, hydroxyl/superoxide, and hydroxyl reactive oxygen species through the use of rose Bengal diacetate, malachite green, and N,N'-bis(2-hydroperoxy-2-methoxyethyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthaldiimide, respectively. The analysis resulted in an easy and effective method for quantifying reactive oxygen species reduction and characterized the radical reduction efficacy of silica hydride at 97% (+/- 0.68%, sigma = 0.84) against singlet oxygen species and over 87% (+/- 0.56%, sigma = 0.70) for the combination of hydroxyl and superoxide reactive species, and 98% (+/- 0.37%, sigma = 0.47) effective for hydroxyl radical species. Nontreated photosensitized controls showed less than 1% viability under the same conditions.
AuthorsCory J Stephanson, G Patrick Flanagan
JournalFree radical biology & medicine (Free Radic Biol Med) Vol. 35 Issue 9 Pg. 1129-37 (Nov 01 2003) ISSN: 0891-5849 [Print] United States
PMID14572615 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Antioxidants
  • Photosensitizing Agents
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Silicates
  • silica hydride
  • Singlet Oxygen
  • Silicon Dioxide
Topics
  • Animals
  • Antioxidants (metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Survival (drug effects)
  • Cricetinae
  • Fluorescence
  • Hybridomas
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning Transmission
  • Molecular Structure
  • Oxidation-Reduction (drug effects)
  • Photochemistry
  • Photosensitizing Agents (metabolism)
  • Reactive Oxygen Species (metabolism)
  • Silicates (metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Silicon Dioxide (metabolism, pharmacology)
  • Singlet Oxygen (metabolism)

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