Allopurinol: Discrimination of antioxidant from enzyme inhibitory activities

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 713-717

  Klein, Andrew S ^a,b   Joh, Jae Won ^a   Rangan, Urvashi ^a   Wang, Dajie ^a   Bulkley, Gregory B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopurinol; Antioxidant; Enzyme inhibition; Free radicals; Lipid peroxidation; Xanthine oxidase

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ANTIOXIDANT; BUTYLCRESOL; FREE RADICAL; LINOLENIC ACID; MALONALDEHYDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; FEMALE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029741654     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0891-5849(96)00158-X     Document Type: Article

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