Antioxidant properties of the decarboxylated dimer of aminoethylcysteine ketimine: Assessment of its ability to scavenge peroxynitrite

Free Radical Research

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 435-440

  Fontana, Mario ^a   Pecci, Laura ^a   Macone, Alberto ^a   Cavallini, Doriano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

1 antiproteinase; Aminoethylcysteine ketimine dimer; Free radicals; LDL; Nihrotyrosine; Nitric oxide; Peroxynitrite

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; AMINOETHYLCYSTEINE KETIMINE; DIMER; GLUTATHIONE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PEROXYNITRITE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; DECARBOXYLATION; NITRATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; SURFACE CHARGE;

ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; AMINO ACIDS, SULFUR; ANTIOXIDANTS; DECARBOXYLATION; DIMERIZATION; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TYROSINE;

EID: 0032431348     PISSN: 10715762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10715769800300481     Document Type: Article

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