Mycosporine Glycine Protects Biological Systems Against Photodynamic Damage by Quenching Singlet Oxygen with a High Efficiency

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-113

  Suh, Hwa Jin ^a   Lee, Hyun Woo ^a   Jung, Jin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAZABICYCLO[2.2.2]OCTANE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMINO ACID; FURFURYL ALCOHOL; GLYCINE; SINGLET OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMOLYSIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MICROSOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; RAT; SOLAR RADIATION;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; KINETICS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA CUCUMBERS; SEAWATER; SINGLET OXYGEN; SUBMITOCHONDRIAL PARTICLES; SUNSCREENING AGENTS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0242302510     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)078<0109:MGPBSA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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