Evolutionary Aspects of Indoleamines As Radical Scavengers: Presence and Photocatalytic Turnover of Indoleamines in a Unicell, Gonyaulax polyedra

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 398, Issue , 1996, Pages 279-284

  Hardeland, R ^a   Behrmann, G ^a   Fuhrberg, B ^a   Poeggeler, B ^b   Burkhardt, S ^a   Uria H ^c   Obst, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONYAULAX POLYEDRA; LETHRINIDAE;

5 METHOXYTRYPTAMINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MELATONIN; SCAVENGER; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DINOFLAGELLATE; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

5-METHOXYTRYPTAMINE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DINOFLAGELLIDA; EVOLUTION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; MELATONIN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; TRYPTOPHAN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0030347551     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_44     Document Type: Article

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