Determinação eletroquímica da capacidade antioxidante para avaliação do exercício físico

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Physical training can adapt or cause injury to skeletal muscles implicating metabolic alterations, which can be detected by biochemical analysis. Apparently the increase in the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in both processes. Enzymatic and low molecular weight antioxidants (LMWA) minimize ROS's deleterious action through redox reactions. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) has been suggested as a tool to quantify the antioxidant capacity conferred by LMWA. The use of CV to evaluate the modulation of the antioxidant capacity conferred by LMWA in response to physical exercise is discussed here.

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Although it has been known for over three decades that mitochondria are endowed with a complex array of Ca2+ transporters and that key enzymes of mitochondrial metabolism are regulated by Ca2+, the possibility that physiological stimuli that raise the [Ca2+] of the cytoplasm could trigger major mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake has long been considered unlikely, based on the low affinity of the mitochondrial transporters and the limited amplitude of the cytoplasmic [Ca2+] rises. The direct measurement of mitochondrial [Ca2+] with highly selective probes has led to a complete reversion of this view, by demonstrating that, after cell stimulation, the cytoplasmic Ca2+ signal is always paralleled by a much larger rise in [Ca2+] in the mitochondrial matrix. This observation has rejuvenated the study of mitochondrial Ca2+ transport and novel, unexpected results have altered long-standing dogmas in the field of calcium signalling. Here we focus on four main topics: (i) the current knowledge of the functional properties of the Ca2+ transporters and of the thermodynamic constraints under which they operate; (ii) the occurrence of mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake in living cells and the key role of local signalling routes between the mitochondria and the Ca2+ sources; (iii) the physiological consequences of Ca2+ transport for both mitochondrial function and the modulation of the cytoplasmic Ca2+ signal; and (iv) evidence that alterations of mitochondrial Ca2+ signalling may occur in pathophysiological conditions.

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Paulo Guimarães Gandra: Role: ND

Armindo Antônio Alves: Role: ND

Denise Vaz de Macedo: Role: ND

Lauro Tatsuo Kubota: Role: ND

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Title: Química Nova

Abbreviated Title: Quím. Nova

Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Química (São Paulo )

ISSN: 1678-7064

Publication date (Print): December 2004

Volume: 27

Issue: 6

Pages: 980-985

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[1 ] Universidade Estadual de Campinas Brazil

[2 ] Universidade Estadual de Campinas Brazil

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Publisher ID: S0100-40422004000600024

DOI: 10.1590/S0100-40422004000600024

SO-VID: da06b35d-58f1-4c30-aebd-3fd31b23790c

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Determinação eletroquímica da capacidade antioxidante para avaliação do exercício físico Translated title: Electrochemical determination of antioxidant capacity for physical exercise evaluation

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Mitochondria as all-round players of the calcium game.

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Visual transduction in cones of the monkey Macaca fascicularis.

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