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FREE RADICAL RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 749-755Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10715760100301251
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retinol; vitamin A; oxidative stress; TBARS; proliferation; focus
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Recent intervention studies revealed that supplementation with retinoids resulted in a higher incidence of lung cancer. Recently the causal mechanism has begun to be clarified. We report here that retinol-induced oxidative stress is accompanied by cellular proliferation. Retinol (7 muM) significantly induced thiobarbituric acid reactive species (TBARS) formation, which was inhibited by trolox, superoxide dismutase, N-acetylcysteine and ethanol. This was accompanied by an increase in DNA synthesis and focus formation in cultured rat Sertoli cells. Antioxidants and ethanol inhibited retinol-induced DNA synthesis. Our findings suggest that retinol-induced oxidative stress was associated with cellular proliferation complementing our understanding of the significance of retinol supplementation in neoplastic transformation.
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