An o-Quinone Form of Estrogen Produces Free Radicals in Human Breast Cancer Cells: Correlation with DNA Damage

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 23-28

  Nutter, Louise M ^a,b,c   Yu Ying, Wu ^a,b,c   Ngo, Emily O ^a,b,c   Sierra, Esteban E ^a,b,c   Gutierrez, Peter L ^a,b,c   Abul Hajj, Yusuf J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ESTROGEN METABOLISM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, NEOPLASM; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ESTRENES; ESTROGENS; FREE RADICALS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; QUINONES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028144399     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: 15205010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx00037a004     Document Type: Article

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