Alternative functions of the brain transsulfuration pathway represent an underappreciated aspect of brain redox biochemistry with significant potential for therapeutic engagement

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 123-134

  Hensley, Kenneth ^a   Denton, Travis T ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anCL1; anCL2; anthionine; euroinflammation; lutathione; reeradical; RMP2; Transsulfuration; utophagy; ydrogensulfide

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTATHIONINE; GASOTRANSMITTER; GLUTATHIONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYDROGEN; LANTHIONINE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SULFUR; ALANINE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; SULFIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPHAGY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL FATE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CYCLIZATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GLIOMA; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TISSUE PREPARATION; TRANSSULFURATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

RODENTIA;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CYSTATHIONINE BETA-SYNTHASE; HUMANS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

EID: 84919352181     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2014.10.581     Document Type: Review

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