The two-electron quinone reductase DT-diaphorase generates and maintains the antioxidant (Reduced) form of coenzyme Q in membranes

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages 15-23

  Beyer, Robert E ^a   Segura Aguilar, Juan ^b   Di Bernardo, Salvatore ^c   Cavazzoni, Marika ^c   Fato, Romana ^c   Fiorentini, Diana ^c   Galli, Maria Christina ^c   Setti, Massimo ^c   Landi, Laura ^c   Lenaz, Giorgio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DICOUMAROL; DOXORUBICIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; HYDROQUINONE; LIVER ENZYME; MEMBRANE ENZYME; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE (PHOSPHATE) DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); UBIQUINONE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ISOLATION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CYTOSOL; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0030847387     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-2997(97)00043-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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