Absolute rate constants for the quenching of reactive excited states by melanin and related 5,6-dihydroxyindole metabolites: Implications for their antioxidant activity

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 524-533

  Zhang, Xiangyang ^a   Erb, Carl ^b   Flammer, Josef ^b   Nau, Werner M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 DIAZABICYCLO[2.2.2]OCT 2 ENE; 5,6 DIHYDROXYINDOLE; 5,6 DIHYDROXYINDOLE 2 CARBOXYLIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; BENZOPHENONE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MELANIN; MONOMER; PIGMENT; RADICAL; SEMIQUINONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; KINETICS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; PHOTOLYSIS; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

ANTIOXIDANTS; FREE RADICALS; HYDROLYSIS; INDOLES; KINETICS; MELANINS; PHOTOLYSIS;

EID: 0034191804     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)071<0524:ARCFTQ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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