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prooxidant

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prooxidant (prō·kˑ·s·dnt),
n cell oxidation agent.
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It deals with such topics as the structures and reactions of major initiators of oxidation in biological systems, prooxidant enzymes, the role of mitochondria and microsomes in the production of free radicals, lipid oxidative processes, pathologies associated with the formation of free radicals, and analytical methods of in vitro and in vivo conditions.
Our earlier findings of low NT in HIV-positive patients further confirmed our oxidant mechanism when these patients were later shown to have a high prooxidant state (8).
We also thank them for sharing their earlier studies on free radical-mediated reduction of lymphocytic 5'-ectonucleotidase (NT) activity during psychologic stress (2-4) and on the reduction of this activity during HIV infection and diabetes (4,5), which were reported to be associated with a high prooxidant state.
 
 
 
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