Serendipitous findings while researching oxygen free radicals

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1004-1013

  Floyd, Robert A ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Phenyl tert butylnitrone; Cancer; Free radicals; Glioblastoma; Hearing loss; Nitrones; NXY 059; Stroke

Indexed keywords

4 HYDROXY ALPHA PHENYL TERT BUTYLNITRONE; 8 HYDROXYGUANINE; 8 HYDROXYL 2 DEOXYGUANOSINE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; DEOXYGUANOSINE DERIVATIVE; DISUFENTON SODIUM; HYDROXYL RADICAL; METHYLENE BLUE; N TERT BUTYL ALPHA PHENYLNITRONE; NITRONE DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN RADICAL; SALICYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; HEARING LOSS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; SPIN TRAPPING; STROKE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BENZENESULFONATES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; DNA DAMAGE; GUANINE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HIV-1; HUMANS; METHYLENE BLUE; PHOTOTHERAPY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; STROKE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 63049098973     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2009.02.003     Document Type: Review

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