Heavy metals and human health: mechanistic insight into toxicity and counter defense system of antioxidants

AT Jan, M Azam, K Siddiqui, A Ali, I Choi… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals, which have widespread environmental distribution and originate from natural
and anthropogenic sources, are common environmental pollutants. In recent decades, their …

The biological activities, chemical stability, metabolism and delivery systems of quercetin: A review

W Wang, C Sun, L Mao, P Ma, F Liu, J Yang… - Trends in food science & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Quercetin, one of the most well-known flavonoids, has been included in human
diet for a long history. The use of quercetin has been widely associated with a great number …

Rutin ameliorates mercuric chloride-induced hepatotoxicity in rats via interfering with oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis

C Caglayan, FM Kandemir, E Darendelioğlu… - Journal of Trace …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Mercury is a global environmental pollutant and is responsible for several organ
pathophysiology including oxidative stress-induced liver disorders. Therefore, the present …

Oxidative stress in MeHg-induced neurotoxicity

M Farina, M Aschner, JBT Rocha - Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2011 - Elsevier
Methylmercury (MeHg) is an environmental toxicant that leads to long-lasting neurological
and developmental deficits in animals and humans. Although the molecular mechanisms …

Rutin protects mercuric chloride‐induced nephrotoxicity via targeting of aquaporin 1 level, oxidative stress, apoptosis and inflammation in rats

C Caglayan, FM Kandemir, S Yildirim… - Journal of Trace …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Mercury is a dangerous industrial and environmental pollutant which induces
severe damage in diverse organs in animal and humans. The aim of this study was to …

O‐Glycoside quercetin derivatives: Biological activities, mechanisms of action, and structure–activity relationship for drug design, a review

SR Alizadeh, MA Ebrahimzadeh - Phytotherapy Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quercetin as a valuable natural flavonoid has shown extensive biological activities,
including anticancer, antioxidant, antibacterial, antiinflammatory, anti‐Alzheimer, antifungal …

Rutin inhibits β-amyloid aggregation and cytotoxicity, attenuates oxidative stress, and decreases the production of nitric oxide and proinflammatory cytokines

S Wang, YJ Wang, Y Su, W Zhou, S Yang, R Zhang… - Neurotoxicology, 2012 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, multi-factorial neurodegenerative disease. The
aggregation of soluble β-amyloid (Aβ) into fibrillar deposits is a pathological hallmark of AD …

Effect of methylmercury on fetal neurobehavioral development: an overview of the possible mechanisms of toxicity and the neuroprotective effect of phytochemicals

G Bjørklund, H Antonyak, A Polishchuk… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a global environmental pollutant with neurotoxic effects. Exposure
to MeHg via consumption of seafood and fish can severely impact fetal neurobehavioral …

Antioxidant activity, genotoxicity and cytotoxicity evaluation of lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L.) ethanolic extract: Its potential role in neuroprotection

JP Kamdem, A Adeniran, AA Boligon… - Industrial Crops and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The antioxidant activity of Melissa officinalis (MO) was evaluated to understand the
mechanism of its pharmacological properties as well as its potential genotoxic and cytotoxic …

Neuroprotective effects of rutin in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat retina

MS Ola, MM Ahmed, R Ahmad… - Journal of Molecular …, 2015 - Springer
Diabetic retinopathy is widely recognized as a neurodegenerative disease of the eye.
Increased oxidative stress has been considered the central factor in damaging neural retina …