Reviews on Mechanisms of In Vitro Antioxidant Activity of Polysaccharides

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It is widely acknowledged that the excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) or reactive nitrogen species (RNS) induced oxidative stress will cause significant damage to cell structure and biomolecular function, directly or indirectly leading to a number of diseases. The overproduction of ROS/RNS will be balanced by nonenzymatic antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes. Polysaccharide or glycoconjugates derived from natural products are of considerable interest from the viewpoint of potent in vivo and in vitro antioxidant activities recently. Particularly, with regard to the in vitro antioxidant systems, polysaccharides are considered as effective free radical scavenger, reducing agent, and ferrous chelator in most of the reports. However, the underlying mechanisms of these antioxidant actions have not been illustrated systematically and sometimes controversial results appeared among various literatures. To address this issue, we summarized the latest discoveries and advancements in the study of antioxidative polysaccharides and gave a detailed description of the possible mechanisms.

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Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Oxid Med Cell Longev

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Oxid Med Cell Longev

Journal ID (publisher-id): OMCL

Title: Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation

ISSN (Print): 1942-0900

ISSN (Electronic): 1942-0994

Publication date (Print): 2016

Publication date (Electronic): 22 November 2015

Volume: 2016

Electronic Location Identifier: 5692852

Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330047, China

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*Shaoping Nie: nie68@ 123456sina.com

Academic Editor: Zhenquan Jia

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DOI: 10.1155/2016/5692852

PMC ID: 4670676

PubMed ID: 26682009

SO-VID: 51ecb88e-30fb-4bd3-93d1-0e91821bf59b

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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Date received : 9 May 2015

Date revision received : 29 July 2015

Date accepted : 6 August 2015

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