1. Intracellular and Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Measurement in Primary Cultured Neurons
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Jae Hoon Sul, Bo Youn Choi, Seung Hyun Baek, Eunae Kim, Jeongmi Lee, HarkKyun Kim, Yoonsuk Cho, Jin Su Park, Jae Hyung Park, Dong-Gyu Jo, and Yuri Choi
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0301 basic medicine ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Mitochondrial ROS ,Reactive oxygen species ,Superoxide ,Singlet oxygen ,Strategy and Management ,Mechanical Engineering ,Metals and Alloys ,Context (language use) ,Oxidative phosphorylation ,medicine.disease_cause ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Cell biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,030104 developmental biology ,0302 clinical medicine ,chemistry ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine ,Methods Article ,Hydroxyl radical ,Oxidative stress - Abstract
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are chemically reactive oxygen containing molecules. ROS consist of radical oxygen species including superoxide anion (O(2)(•−)) and hydroxyl radical (•OH) and non-radical oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)), singlet oxygen (O(2)). ROS are generated by mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, environmental stresses including UV or heat exposure, and cellular responses to xenobiotics ( Ray et al., 2012 ). Excessive ROS production over cellular antioxidant capacity induces oxidative stress which results in harmful effects such as cell and tissue damage. Sufficient evidence suggests that oxidative stresses are involved in cancers, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson disease (Waris and Ahsan, 2006). Though excessive level of ROS triggers detrimental effects, ROS also have been implicated to regulate cellular processes. Since ROS function is context dependent, measurement of ROS level is important to understand cellular processes (Finkel, 2011). This protocol describes how to detect intracellular and mitochondrial ROS in live cells using popular chemical fluorescent dyes.
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- 2018