5,6-Dihydroxyindoles in the fenton reaction: A model study of the role of melanin precursors in oxidative stress and hyperpigmentary processes

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 985-992

  Novellino, Luisa ^a   Napolitano, Alessandra ^a   Prota, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DEOXYRIBOSE; EDETIC ACID; HYDROXYL RADICAL; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; IRON; IRON CHELATE; MELANIN; PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOOXIDATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INFLAMMATION; IRON KINETICS; MELANOCYTE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PH; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHELATING AGENTS; DEOXYRIBOSE; EDETIC ACID; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INDOLES; IRON; MELANINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PROLINE;

LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0032723494     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx990020i     Document Type: Article

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