"Superoxides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Highly reactive compounds produced when oxygen is reduced by a single electron. In biological systems, they may be generated during the normal catalytic function of a number of enzymes and during the oxidation of hemoglobin to METHEMOGLOBIN. In living organisms, SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE protects the cell from the deleterious effects of superoxides.
| Descriptor ID |
D013481
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.248.497.158.685.750.850 D01.339.431.374.850 D01.650.550.750.800 D02.389.338.732
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| Concept/Terms |
Superoxides- Superoxides
- Superoxide Anion
- Superoxide Radical
- Superoxide
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