Oxidative Stress in Relation to Surgery: Is There a Role for the Antioxidant Melatonin?

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 338-347

  Kücükakin, Bülent ^a   Gögenur, Ismail ^a   Reiter, Russel J ^b   Rosenberg, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

antioxidants; melatonin; oxidative stress; surgery; surgical stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA CAROTENE; CLONIDINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; NITRATE; NITRITE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AORTA SURGERY; ASPHYXIA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG EDEMA; MEDIATOR; METABOLIC REGULATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN; NITROSATIVE STRESS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; REPERFUSION INJURY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; REVIEW; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL STRESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; MELATONIN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PULMONARY EDEMA; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 61849181005     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.12.753     Document Type: Review

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