Antioxidative protection in a high-melatonin organism: The dinoflagellate Gonyaulax polyedra is rescued from lethal oxidative stress by strongly elevated, but physiologically possible concentrations of melatonin

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 182-190

  Antolín, Isaac ^a,b   Obst, Barbara ^a,c   Burkhardt, Susanne ^a   Hardeland, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dinoflagellate; Free radicals; Gonyaulax; Melatonin; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MELATONIN; PEROXIDASE; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG EFFECT; LUMINESCENCE; METABOLISM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DINOFLAGELLIDA; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MELATONIN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDASES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0031263656     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-079X.1997.tb00353.x     Document Type: Article

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