Persistent oxidative stress after ionizing radiation is involved in inherited radiosensitivity
Additionally, patients using both treatments may attribute weight loss or adverse effects to the wrong agent, complicating clinical assessment
Pycnogenol has been shown to be a powerful antioxidant in laboratory tests and clinical studies.[] Pycnogenol improves antioxidant capacity, endothelial function, vascular integrity and has significant anti-inflammatory potential in humans.[] The radical scavenging properties described of Pycnogenol were assumed to have a potential radioprotective effect
If a patient has a very strong reaction they may need to discontinue the infusion
Proteins 81 , 16211633 (2013)
The protein expression levels of tight junction associated protein-1 (ZO-1), Occludin, inflammatory factors interleukin (IL)-6, IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-, SIRT1, STAT3, p-STAT3, and retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor gamma t (RORt) were detected by Western blot