Sentences with phrase «as glutathione peroxidase»

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As a result, the activities of the antioxidant enzymes glutathione peroxidase and catalase were restored, ROS levels decreased, and the bacterial biofilm disintegrated in the wound — all of which resulted in the development of healthier wound tissue and led to wound healing.

It was hypothesized that silver toxicity, as manifested by liver necrosis in laboratory rats, was due to silver induced inhibition of the synthesis of the seleno - enzyme glutathione peroxidase.

Also, don't forget the basics — vitamins A, C, and E. Additionally, the minerals manganese, copper, zinc, and selenium are necessary to make the body's own natural antioxidants known as superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase.

Milk thistle removes precursors of free radicals through three antioxidant enzymes namely catalase, glutathione peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase, in addition to metal - binding proteins such as myogoblin, ferritin, albumin, lactoferrin, haptogoblin and hemopexin.

Selenium: Selenium is a trace element nutrient that serves as the essential cofactor for the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which converts GSH to GSSG so glutathione can «take the hit» by free radicals to spare cells.

Not only does selenium play a critical role in cancer prevention as a cofactor of glutathione peroxidase, selenium also works with vitamin E in numerous other vital antioxidant systems throughout the body.

Resveratrol, astaxanathin, quercetin, bioflavonids, hesperidins, selenium, vitamins A, C and E. coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10, or ubiquinone), lipoic acid, maritime pine bark (pycnogenol), the antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) serve as your primary line of defense in destroying free radicals.

Alpha - lipoic acid, another powerful endogenous antioxidant, increases glutathione production in the body, as does the sleep hormone melatonin — which stimulates production of the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase.

Second, curcumin helps stimulate a very important genetic pathway known as the NRF2 pathway, which activates a whole set of antioxidant genes, including genes like glutathione synthase (which is the body's natural way of making glutathione) and glutathione peroxidase (which is the way the body uses glutathione to fight off damage) and is just one way that curcumin fights damaging oxidants.