Superoxide reacts with hydroethidine but forms a fluorescent product that is distinctly different from ethidium: Potential implications in intracellular fluorescence detection of superoxide

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1359-1368

  Zhao, Hongtao ^a   Kalivendi, Shasi ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Joseph, Joy ^a   Nithipatikom, Kasem ^b   Vásquez Vivar, Jeannette ^a   Kalyanaraman, B ^a,b  

^a FREE RADICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dihydroethidium; Ethidium; Free radicals; Hydroethidine; Peroxynitrite; Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species; Superoxide

Indexed keywords

ETHIDIUM; FLUORESCENT DYE; HYDROETHIDINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXIDE; POTASSIUM SUPEROXIDE; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHINE; XANTHINE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0038368985     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(03)00142-4     Document Type: Article

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