[Reactive oxygen species and inflammation].
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated in significant amounts by inflammatory phagocytes. ROS facilitate protection against infections. Yet they are also tissue damaging and doing so act synergistically with catabolic events. Direct evidence of ROS and oxidative tissue alteration is methodologically difficult. Protection against ROS-mediated tissue damage by pharmacological means is still unsolved.
Müller-Peddinghaus
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D000818:Animals; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology*; D010586:Phagocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism*
D013481:Superoxides
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