Superoxide dismutase activity of murine ultraviolet radiation-induced fibrosarcoma cell strains.
The average superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity of seven cell strains from mouse skin fibrosarcoma induced by ultraviolet (UV) irradiation was 5.78 +/- 0.81 (mean +/- SE) unit/mg protein, while that of seven normal mouse skin fibroblasts was 5.36 +/- 1.58. Although tumor cells have been previously reported to exhibit reduced SOD activity, the present study demonstrates that there is comparable SOD activity between tumor cells and normal cells of the same tissue origin.
Hamanaka
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Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Miyachi
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Moriwaki
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Nishigori
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Imamura
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D000818:Animals; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000201:enzymology; D005354:Fibrosarcoma / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008812:Mice, Hairless; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000201:enzymology; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
D013482:Superoxide Dismutase