Heart Rate Variability and Somatization in Adolescents With Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Background/aims: Changes in autonomic regulation and psychological distress play an important role in the pathobiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The aim of the current study is to evaluate the autonomic function and to link it to the levels of somatization in adolescents with IBS.

Methods: We enrolled 30 adolescents with various types of IBS and 35 healthy controls.

Interaction of diet and drugs in lung disease.

Purpose Of Review: The current review aims to seek attention for the interaction between drugs and nutrition. Traditionally, drugs and nutrition are regarded as separate categories. Nutrition is to maintain health and drugs are for curing disease.

Amaranth oil reduces accumulation of 4-hydroxynonenal-histidine adducts in gastric mucosa and improves heart rate variability in duodenal peptic ulcer patients undergoing Helicobacter pylori eradication.

Helicobacter pylori-induced oxidative stress in gastric mucosa (GM) is a milieu for the development of chronic gastritis, duodenal peptic ulcer (DPU), gastric cancer, and a number of extragastric diseases. Because our previous study revealed the accumulation of the protein adducts of lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) in GM, which persists after eradication of H. pylori, the aim of the study was to test whether Amaranth oil supplementation in addition to standard anti-Helicobacter treatment could prevent such accumulation of HNE in GM in H.

Biomarkers of oxidative and nitro-oxidative stress: conventional and novel approaches.

Unlabelled: The concept of oxidative stress (OS) that connects altered redox biology with various diseases was introduced 30 years ago and has generated intensive research over the past two decades. Whereas it is now commonly accepted that macromolecule oxidation in response to ROS is associated with a variety of pathologies, the emergence of NO as a key regulator of redox signalling has led to the discovery of the pathophysiological significance of reactive nitrogen species (RNS). RNS can elicit various modifications of macromolecules and lead to nitrative or nitro-OS.

Sildenafil reduces signs of oxidative stress in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Evaluation by fatty acid composition, level of hydroxynonenal and heart rate variability.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare multifactorial disease with an unfavorable prognosis. Sildenafil therapy can improve functional capacity and pulmonary hemodynamics in PAH patients. Nowadays, it is increasingly recognized that the effects of sildenafil are pleiotropic and may also involve changes of the pro-/antioxidant balance, lipid peroxidation and autonomic control.

The effect of Amaranth oil on monolayers of artificial lipids and hepatocyte plasma membranes with adrenalin-induced stress.

In this paper the oil from seeds of Amaranthus cruentus L. (AmO) was shown to be an efficient modulator of the physical chemical properties of artificial lipid and rat hepatocyte plasma membranes. AmO improved the membrane stability, their stress resistance and the adsorption of neurotensin to plasma membranes with the distinct biphasic interactions being observed even after adrenalin stress exposure.

Activation of aerobic metabolism by Amaranth oil improves heart rate variability both in athletes and patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

The aim of present research was to study the effects of Amaranth oil (AmO) supplementation on aerobic metabolism and heart rate variability (HRV) in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and in athletes. Several parameters of aerobic metabolism and HRV were assessed. Supplementation with AmO caused mild pro-oxidant activity resulting in improved uptake of oxidative destruction products and modulation of catalase and SOD activity with subsequent development of an antioxidant effect.

Interval hypoxic training in complex treatment of Helicobacter pylori-associated peptic ulcer disease.

This study was aimed to demonstrate the efficacy of interval hypoxic training (IHT) in complex treatment of Helicobacter pylori-associated duodenal peptic ulcer disease (DPUD) by parameters of aerobic metabolism and indexes of heart rate variability (HRV). Eighty patients with H. pylori-associated DPUD were included into the study, mean age 32+/-1.

Persistent accumulation of 4-hydroxynonenal-protein adducts in gastric mucosa after Helicobacter pylori eradication.

Recent studies indicate that oxidative stress caused by Helicobacter pylori and insufficient host antioxidant defense could play important role in pathogenesis of gastrointestinal ulcerations. By specific monoclonal antibodies we have detected weak presence of the major lipid peroxidation bioactive marker 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE) in healthy human gastric mucosa, which strongly increased in case of H. pylori-associated peptic ulcer.

The distribution of 4-hydroxynonenal-modified proteins in gastric mucosa of duodenal peptic ulcer patients.

This study used monoclonal antibody specific for 4-hydroxynonenal (HNE)-histidine to evaluate immunohistochemical distribution of HNE-protein adducts in gastric mucosa biopsies of 52 peptic ulcer patients (all positive for H. pylori) and of 20 healthy volunteers (eight positive and 12 negative for H. pylori).