Glutathione transferases catalyse the detoxication of oxidized metabolites (o-quinones) of catecholamines and may serve as an antioxidant system preventing degenerative cellular processes

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 324, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-28

  Baez, Sofia ^a   Segura Aguilar, Juan ^b   Widersten, Mikael ^b   Johansson, Ann Sofie ^b   Mannervik, Bengt ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENOCHROME; ANTIOXIDANT; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOPA; DOPACHROME; DOPAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; NORADRENALIN DERIVATIVE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DEGENERATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0030967073     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/bj3240025     Document Type: Article

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