Glutathione redox control of asthma: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 375-408

  Fitzpatrick, Anne M ^a,b   Jones, Dean P ^a   Brown, Lou Ann S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINASE; AMINO ACID; FREE RADICAL; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTAREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCINE; METHIONINE; NITRIC OXIDE; PEROXIREDOXIN; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; S NITROSOGLUTATHIONE; SELENIUM; SULFUR AMINO ACID; THIOL; THIOREDOXIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ASTHMA; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NITROSATIVE STRESS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; REVIEW; SCAVENGING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHEY; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASTHMA; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84862067897     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: 15577716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2011.4198     Document Type: Review

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