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Abstract
Free radicals (and other toxic metabolites of oxygen) are generated in most cells as a consequence of normal metabolic processes, but cells are protected from injury by antioxidant mechanisms. Several forms of lung injury appear to result from generation of toxic metabolites of oxygen in quantities which exceed the antioxidant capacity of lung cells. Several manipulations which prevent free radical production or accumulation or enhance antioxidant capacity of lung tissue may prove to be useful therapeutically in acute and chronic diseases of the lungs.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID： 3519109 DOI： 10.1378/chest.89.6.859
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chest ISSN： 0012-3692 Impact factor: 9.410