Intracellular antioxidants: From chemical to biochemical mechanisms

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 37, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 949-962

  Chaudiere J ^a   Ferrari Iliou, R ^a  

^a UFR de Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Ascorbate; Ascorbate peroxidase; Catalase; Ergothioneine; Glutathione; Glutathione peroxidase; NADPH; Superoxide dismutase; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBATE OXIDASE; ASCORBIC ACID; CATALASE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SCAVENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CELL METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTENOIDS; CATALASE; CYTOSOL; ERGOTHIONEINE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VITAMIN E;

ANIMALIA; LETHRINIDAE;

EID: 0043197852     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(99)00090-3     Document Type: Review

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