Oxygen-derived species: their relation to human disease and environmental stress.
Open Access
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 102 (suppl 10), 5-12
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.94102s105
Abstract
Free radicals and other reactive oxygen species (ROS) are constantly formed in the human body, often for useful metabolic purposes. Antioxidant defenses protect against them, but these defenses are not completely adequate, and systems that repair damage by ROS are also necessary. Mild oxidative stress often induces antioxidant defense enzymes, but severe stress can cause oxidative damage to lipids, proteins, and DNA within cells, leading to such events as DNA strand breakage and disruption of calcium ion metabolism. Oxidative stress can result from exposure to toxic agents, and by the process of tissue injury itself. Ozone, oxides of nitrogen, and cigarette smoke can cause oxidative damage; but the molecular targets that they damage may not be the same.Keywords
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