Sesame oil improves functional recovery by attenuating nerve oxidative stress in a mouse model of acute peripheral nerve injury: role of Nrf-2

Peripheral nervous injury (PNI) is a common form of trauma in modern society, especially in sport players. Despite the advance of therapy for PNI, the recovery of function can never reach the pre-injury level after treatments. Recently, inhibiting neural oxidative stress shows a beneficial effect in improving functional recovery after PNI. In addition, sesame oil has been reported to possess the excellent anti-oxidative properties. However, whether sesame oil can improve the functional recovery after PNI by its anti-oxidative effect has never been investigated.

Source: The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry - September 13, 2016 Category: Biochemistry Authors: Che-Chia Hsu, Hui-Cheng Huang, Po-Ting Wu, Ta-Wei Tai, I-Ming Jou Source Type: research