oxidative damage

collocation in English

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oxidative
adjective
uk
/ɒkˈsɪd.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈɑːk.sɪˌdeɪ.t̬ɪv/
An oxidative chemical reaction adds oxygen to the tissues of ...
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damage
noun
uk
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ/
harm ...
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Oxidativedamageand mitochondrial decay in aging.
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Oxidativedamageand mitochondrial decay in ageing.
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Caloric restriction prevents age-associated accrual ofoxidativedamageto mouse skeletal muscle mitochondria.
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Seeds have several antioxidant systems that may help to preventoxidativedamage.
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Genetic engineering of mice to test theoxidativedamagetheory of aging.
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Oxidativedamagealso is a common final pathway for cellular injury in many neurologic diseases.
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Oxidativedamageincreases with age so fits in with the middle-life onset of the disease.
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Theoxidativedamageeventually results in cell death whereas the direct damage resulted in enzyme inhibition but not cell death.
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Nitrotyrosine is the stable reaction product of peroxynitrite attack on proteins and thus provides a ' 'footprint' ' ofoxidativedamage.
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It is likely that a metabolic imbalance will develop during cellular disruption by catastrophic mechanical damage and this will compoundoxidativedamage.
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Because it is extremely difficult to measure oxidants directly, due to their extremely brief existence, antioxidants and markers ofoxidativedamageare more usually measured.
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Reactive oxygen species may be reduced because of the slowing of the electron transport chain, thereby reducing lipid, protein and/or nucleic acidoxidativedamage.
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However, measurements made in the present work suggest thatoxidativedamageis not the major cause of viability loss during drying at these high moisture contents.
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Oxidativedamageis accelerated at high light intensity.
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In mice, interventions that enhanceoxidativedamagegenerally shorten lifespan.
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Selenium is an essential trace element which is particularly important in protecting the body againstoxidativedamageof the cells.
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In addition to photoreactivation, three other putative repair mechanisms were identified including a methylation-directed mismatch repair, fouroxidativedamagerepair enzymes, and two proteases for eliminating damaged proteins.
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Reperfusion triggers an inflammatory response and often results inoxidativedamage.
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Absorbing more results inoxidativedamagea well-documented phenomenon in plants.
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Compared to other tissues in the body, the brain is deemed unusually sensitive tooxidativedamage.
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Plant death results from starvation andoxidativedamagecaused by breakdown in the electron transport process.
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Toxicity is due tooxidativedamagefrom reactive oxygen species formed by the copper catalysts.
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Furthermore, ferritin has significant non storage roles within the body, such as protection fromoxidativedamage.
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