Oxidative stress and antioxidant defenses: A target for the treatment of diseases caused by parasitic protozoa

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 211-220

  Turrens, Julio F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ameba; Antioxidant enzymes; Chagas disease; Leishmania; Malaria; Ovothiol; Peroxiredoxin; Plasmodium; Trypanosomes; Trypanothione

Indexed keywords

ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; HOST; IRON METABOLISM; MALARIA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; HUMANS; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 1642504719     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2004.02.021     Document Type: Review

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