pro-oxidants

pro-ox·i·dants

(prō-oks'i-dănts),
Compounds or agents capable of generating toxic oxygen species. Compare: antioxidant.
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There is a nutritional analogy to this line of thinking: antioxidants are good for your health but in excess they flip and turn into pro-oxidants. They end up doing exactly the opposite and cause irrevocable damage to the very mechanisms and organs they were meant to protect in the first instance".
Palm olein and olive oil spoilt for choice
Macrophage foam cell formation during early atherogenesis is determined by the balance between pro-oxidants and anti-oxidants in arterial cells and blood lipoproteins.
Caffeine Increases Apolipoprotein A-1 and Paraoxonase-1 but not Paraoxonase-3 Protein Levels in Human-Derived Liver (HepG2) Cells
Sodium nitroprusside or iron as pro-oxidants stimulate the production of TBARS in mice liver and cause lipid peroxidation.
In Vitro Antioxidant and Inhibitory Effects of Myristica fragrans, Illicuim verum, Curculigo orchioeides, Glycyrrhiza glabra and Embelia ribes against Lipid Peroxidation in Mice Liver
These antioxidants theoretically protect us from damage by pro-oxidants.
Eating right protects you from air pollution
These antioxidants theoretically protect us from damage by pro-oxidants. But that explanation may be incorrect.
Does Eating Right Protect You From Air Pollution?
However, in certain situations, antioxidants can become pro-oxidants and will elicit the opposite effect to what is desired.
Are Antioxidants a Potential Therapy for FSHD? A Review of the Literature
Few publications have discussed about the photo-oxidation of PP in the presence of pro-oxidants [11].
Polypropylene nanocomposites with oxo-degradable pro-oxidant: mechanical, thermal, rheological, and photo-degradation performance
Again, we emphasize that these results are only suggestive that medication use (corticosteroids) may reduce the FeNO response induced by the pro-oxidants of PM.
Particulate oxidative burden as a predictor of exhaled nitric oxide in children with asthma
(1) as a disturbance between the pro-oxidant and antioxidant balance in favor of the pro-oxidants.
Repeated supramaximal exercise-induced oxidative stress: effect of [beta]-alanine plus creatine supplementation
While the study's results have not yet been tested in people, they raise the possibility that cancer should be treated with pro-oxidants and that cancer patients should not supplement their diet with large doses of antioxidants.
Antioxidant Use May Promote Spread of Cancer
Intrinsically, cancer cells have higher basal levels of ROS which if supplemented by additional oxidative insult by pro-oxidants can be cytotoxic, an example being Malabaricone-A (MAL-A).
The variable chemotherapeutic response of Malabaricone-A in leukemic and solid tumor cell lines depends on the degree of redox imbalance
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