Free radical scavenging properties of melanin interaction of eu- and pheo-melanin models with reducing and oxidising radicals

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 518-525

  Rózanowska, Malgorzata ^a   Sarna, Tadeusz ^a   Land, Edward J ^b   Truscott, T George ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Free radical scavenger; Melanin; Oxidative stress; Photoprotection; Pulse radiolysis; Redox properties

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; SCAVENGER; VIOLOGEN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MELANOCYTE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PULSE RADIOLYSIS; REACTION ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MELANINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; ROSE BENGAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0345369502     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(98)00234-2     Document Type: Article

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