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Chemical Phenomena > Oxidation-Reduction
Metabolism > Energy Metabolism > Oxidation-Reduction

Preferred term

Oxidation-Reduction  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Redox

Note

  • IM for general only; NIM with no qualif with specific drug IM

Scope note

  • A chemical reaction in which an electron is transferred from one molecule to another. The electron-donating molecule is the reducing agent or reductant; the electron-accepting molecule is the oxidizing agent or oxidant. Reducing and oxidizing agents function as conjugate reductant-oxidant pairs or redox pairs (Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 1982, p471).

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