“…Oxidative stress is a notorious factor in the development of degenerative and age-related diseases such as diabetes (Lee et al, 2007;Hosaka et al, 2011;Yu et al, 2015), cancer (Lee et al, 2013;Zhu, 2016), immunity (Yu et al, 2016), liver injury (Zhang et al, 2014;Pang et al, 2015), cardiovascular (Andriantsitohaina et al, 2012) and neurodegenerative diseases (Choi et al, 2015). Oxidative stress-induced perturbations in the antioxidant defence systems of the body lead to DNA damage and cellular dysfunction, which is further linked to diabetes.…”