Organochalcogen peroxidase mimetics as potential drugs: A long story of a promise still unfulfilled

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-74

  Orian, Laura ^a   Toppo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ebselen; Free radicals; Glutathione peroxidase; Organochalcogen compounds; Peroxidase mimetics; Quantum mechanics; Selenium

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGEN; EBSELEN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROPEROXIDE; NITRATE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOCHALCOGEN; ORGANOSELENIUM DERIVATIVE; ORGANOTELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; PEROXIDASE; PEROXYNITRITE; SELENIUM; THIOL; THIOREDOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CELL PROTECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DETOXIFICATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART PROTECTION; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NEUROPROTECTION; PEROXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EBSELEN; FREE RADICALS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; ORGANOCHALCOGEN COMPOUNDS; PEROXIDASE MIMETICS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SELENIUM;

ANTIOXIDANTS; AZOLES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PEROXIDASES; QUANTUM THEORY; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84892370999     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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