Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase in excretory-secretory products of the human hookworm Necator americanus: An electron paramagnetic spectrometry study

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 434-438

  Taiwo, Fatai A ^a   Brophy, Peter M ^a,d   Pritchard, David I ^b   Brown, Alan ^b   Wardlaw, Andrew ^c   Patterson, Laurence H ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron spin resonance spectrometry; EPR spectrometry; Helminths; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PEROXIDE; PYRROLIDINE DERIVATIVE; SUPEROXIDE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATALASE; COPPER; CYANIDES; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; HUMANS; KINETICS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; VERMES;

EID: 0033199494     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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