Glutathione-Garlic sulfur conjugates: Slow hydrogen sulfide releasing agents for therapeutic applications

Molecules

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1731-1750

  Bhuiyan, Ashif Iqbal ^a   Papajani, Vilma Toska ^b   Paci, Maurizio ^a   Melino, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b University of Medicine   (Albania)

Author keywords

Allyl sulfur compounds; Extraction; Garlic; Hydrogen sulfide; Sulfur conjugates; Sulfurtransferase; Tumor cells

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; PLANT EXTRACT; REDUCING AGENT; SULFUR; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; THIOREDOXIN; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; WATER;

ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOCATALYSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; COLD; DRUG EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GARLIC; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PATHOLOGY; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SOLUBILITY; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BIOCATALYSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; COLD TEMPERATURE; GARLIC; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT EXTRACTS; REDUCING AGENTS; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THIOREDOXINS; THIOSULFATE SULFURTRANSFERASE; WATER;

EID: 84921486086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules20011731     Document Type: Article

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