Superoxide dismutase activity in the nervous system

✍ Scribed by Rainer Fried

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 479 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-4012
• DOI: 10.1002/jnr.490040511

✦ Synopsis

The brain is one of the organs which has the highest consumption of oxygen, taking up about % of the circulating oxygen from blood; it also has a high concentration of oxidizable substrates, mainly catecholamines as well as unsaturated lipids (phospholipids), which are important components of external and intracellular membranes. Both membranes and catecholamines are necessary for the correct functioning of the nervous system. Membrane-0360-4012/79/0405/6-0435~01.70 @ 1979 Alan R. Liss, Inc.