Free radicals in carcinogenesis.

نویسنده

  • E S Copeland
چکیده

It has become clear since the workshop that free radicals are implicated not only in the promotion phase of carcinogenesis but during initiation as well. Since the workshop, however, despite intriguing trapping studies with Superoxide disimilase. catalase, and Cu-DIPS [copper(II)(3,5-diisopropylsalicylate)2] and generation of OJ using xanthine oxidase, little substantive evidence has been obtained concerning the nature or mode of action of "oxygen free radicals" or any other free radical species

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cancer research

دوره 46 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986