Sentences with phrase «oxygen radical scavengers»

When potent oxygen radical scavengers such as cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) were combined with a highly charged polymer (polyacrylic acid) and incorporated into extracted chloroplasts using the LEEP process, damage to the chloroplasts from superoxides and other reactive oxygen species was dramatically reduced.

A 2005 study in Antioxidants & Redox Signaling showed that curcumin was both an oxygen radical scavenger and a potent antioxidant, boosting the natural antioxidant processes of the body.

It is a cofactor in several oxidative enzymes vital to the function of hematopoietic, vascular and skeletal tissues, as well as the structure and function of the nervous system, including superoxide dismutase (oxygen radical scavenger), cytochrome - c oxidase (mitochondrial respiration), lysyl oxidase (collagen and elastin synthesis) and ceruloplasmin ferroxidase / haephestin (iron metabolism).

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Ginger extract effectively suppresses inflammation of the liver tissue and provids protection against cancer by promoting a free radical scavenger system known as ROS (reactive oxygen species).

While not specifically a free radical scavenger, Co-enyzme Q10 helps prevent the formation of oxygen free radicals during cellular metabolism — a sort of «pre-antioxidant.»

At the trace levels normally found in biological systems (plants and animals), selenium apparently acts as an antimutagenic, oxygen - radical scavenger, but at higher concentrations selenium is capable of inducing mutations (cancer).»