NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS), FREE RADICALS AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS): A REVIEW OF LITERATURE
The Medical Journal of Basrah University,
2009, Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 46-53
10.33762/mjbu.2009.49041
Abstract
ABSTRACTA wide controversy exists regarding the effect of NSAIDs on the oxidative status. Each member of these NSAIDs has
been shown to act both as antioxidant or pro-oxidant in different test systems, using different concentrations and
various oxidative stress-inducing agents. This review tackles this problem and tries to look for factors that might be
responsible for this variation in results.
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