title: Therapeutic usages of oxygen radical scavengers in human diseases: myths and realities.
abstract: Some distinct advances in pharmacologic manipulation of oxygen radical scavengers have been made which could ultimately greatly enhance the use of these reagents as drugs, as well as some innovative techniques for drug delivery. Unfortunately, most of the therapeutic reports in the literature, almost all of which are based on usage of standard (native) SOD and/or catalase, are still anecdotal and/or uncontrolled. A review of the human disease/treatment literature suggests that further tightening of the scientific design of such trials is still badly needed; hopefully better experimental design will be applied when products such as PEG conjugates or genetically engineered polymers are ready for testing.
authors.affiliation: Division of Rheumatology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York 11042.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Greenwald
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002374:Catalase / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000379:methods; D016166:Free Radical Scavengers; D006801:Humans; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000633:toxicity; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D016166:Free Radical Scavengers; D002374:Catalase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D010100:Oxygen