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What Is A Free Radical - Ústav lékařské chemie a biochemie

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Antioxidant defence V<br />

Stress response<br />

Oxidation or nitrosylation of sensor -SH<br />

Transcription factors (NFκB, Nrf-2…):<br />

activation, nuclear translocation<br />

Induction of gene expression:<br />

• chaperones (heat shock proteins)<br />

• antioxidant enzymes<br />

• metallothionein<br />

• hemoxygenase 1<br />

…→ more resistant to further<br />

oxidative stress<br />

Apoptosis as the<br />

ultimate antioxidant defence ?<br />

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