Structure - Activity study on the quinone/quinone methide chemistry of flavonoids

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 398-408

  Awad, Hanem M ^a,b   Boersma, Marelle G ^a   Boeren, Sjef ^a   Van Bladeren, Peter J ^a,c   Vervoort, Jacques ^a   Rietjens, Ivonne M C M ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; QUINONE METHIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKYLATION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; MACROMOLECULE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH MEASUREMENT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTON TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BENZOQUINONES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDOLEQUINONES; INDOLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; QUINONES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0035064608     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx000216e     Document Type: Article

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