Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Prospects for introducing deferiprone as potent pharmaceutical antioxidant.

Prospects for introducing deferiprone as potent pharmaceutical antioxidant.

Front Biosci (Elite Ed). 2009 Jun 1;1:161-178.

Kontoghiorghes GJ.
Postgraduate Research Institute of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine, Limassol, Cyprus.

Free radical formation is primarily initiated from metal catalytic centers involving iron and copper. Under certain conditions, free radical reactions .......

Keywords: Free radical, iron, copper, oxidative stress, antioxidants, chelators, Deferiprone, cardiomyopathy, thalassaemia, Friedreich ataxia.