Mechanism of Action of Biological Antioxidants (43429)

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 248-254

  Krinsky, Norman I ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; CAROTENOID; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HEME DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TOCOPHEROL; UBIQUINONE; URIC ACID;

BLOOD LEVEL; CELL PROTECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; LIPID PEROXIDATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; CAROTENOIDS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FREE RADICALS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMAN; METALLOPROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; QUINONES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; URIC ACID; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0026764691     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/00379727-200-43429     Document Type: Article

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