Concept information
Preferred term
Reactive Oxygen Species
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Active Oxygen
- Active Oxygen Species
- Oxygen, Active
- Oxygen Radical
- Oxygen Radicals
- Oxygen Species, Reactive
- Pro Oxidant
- Pro-Oxidant
- Pro Oxidants
- Pro-Oxidants
- Radical, Oxygen
- Reactive Oxygen Intermediates
Scope note
- Molecules or ions formed by the incomplete one-electron reduction of oxygen. These reactive oxygen intermediates include SINGLET OXYGEN; SUPEROXIDES; PEROXIDES; HYDROXYL RADICAL; and HYPOCHLOROUS ACID. They contribute to the microbicidal activity of PHAGOCYTES, regulation of SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION and GENE EXPRESSION, and the oxidative damage to NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; and LIPIDS.
History note
- 1993
In other languages
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Finnish
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reactive oxygen metabolites
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reaktiiviset happimetaboliitit
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ROM
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ROS
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Swedish
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Fria syreradikaler
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Prooxidanter
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017382
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