Despite the previously observed facilitated uptake of 5-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)--valerolactone into blood cells ( 5.3 Distribution into endothelial cells The vascular endothelium plays an essential role in cardiovascular health (65) and binding and/or uptake of dietary polyphenols to endothelial cells presumably contributes to beneficial health effects
Sigma, Saint Louis, Missouri) Oxidative stress was assessed by the quantification of protein carbonyls and MDA using Protein Carbonyl Colorimetric and TBARS Assay Kits, respectively (Cayman Chemical, Ann Arbor, MI)
Nevertheless, cystine is taken up by some cells (i.e., endothelial cells) and, given the high reducing conditions, is intracellularly reduced to cysteine, employed for the synthesis of GSH ( The last GSH synthetic process is the one depending on the conversion of the oxidized dimer GSSG to 2 reduced GSH molecules in cells by glutathione reductase (GR), an ubiquitous enzyme of the family of disulfide reductases, in the presence of NADPH and flavin adenine dinucleotide -FAD-