Human sperm glutathione reductase activity in situ reveals limitation in the glutathione antioxidant defense system due to supply of NADPH

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 400-407

  Storey, Bayard T ^a   Alvarez, Juan G ^a   Thompson, Kathleen A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase; Glutathione; Glutathione reductase; Human sperm; Lipid peroxidation; NADPH; ThioGlo 1

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATALYSIS; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HUMANS; KINETICS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; NADP; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031942284     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199804)49:4<400::AID-MRD7>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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