Pro-oxidant, anti-oxidant and cleavage activities on DNA of curcumin and its derivatives demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-175

  Ahsan, Haseeb ^a   Parveen, Nazneen ^a   Khan, Nizam U ^a   Hadi, S M ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cu(II) reduction; Curcumin; Curcuminoids; DNA cleavage; Hydroxyl radical

Indexed keywords

COPPER ION; CURCUMIN; DEMETHOXYCURCUMIN; DIDEMETHOXYCURCUMIN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RIBOFLAVIN; SINGLET OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA CLEAVAGE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATTLE; COPPER; COUMARIC ACIDS; CURCUMIN; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HYDROXYL RADICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

CURCUMA LONGA;

EID: 0032998449     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2797(99)00096-4     Document Type: Article

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