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The antioxidant activity of the lipophilic hormone melatonin, “an ideal inhibitor of free radicals,” is studied in models of cellular (peritoneal mouse macrophages) and copper-induced oxidation of low density lipoproteins. Oxidative modification of low density lipoproteins is assessed by accumulation of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances and degradation of125I-labeled lipoproteins in a fresh culture of macrophages. Melatonin inhibits in a dose-dependent manner cellular and copper-induced oxidation of lipoproteins and production of the superoxide anion radical by macrophages, the mean concentrations of 50% inhibition being 300, 1230, and 900 μM, respectively.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 122, No. 10, pp. 399–402, October, 1996
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Zenkov, N.K., Dushkin, M.I., Men'shikova, E.B. et al. Inhibition of low density lipoprotein oxidation by melatonin. Bull Exp Biol Med 122, 998–1000 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447018
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