Ischemic injury in the brain. Role of oxygen radical-mediated processes.
Ischemic injury in the brain. Role of oxygen radical-mediated processes.
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大脑缺血性损伤。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb22615.x
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Ginsberg,MD
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作者:
Watson,BD;Ginsberg,MD
Free radicals are short-lived molecular species, produced under certain conditions, that are believed to initiate toxic effects in biological systems.’-3 A free radical is chemically unstable, and thus potentially reactive, because one or more of its valence electron orbitals is half-filled, with just one electron instead of the usual pair of electrons. The reactivity of free radicals results from their propensity to acquire thermodynamic stability in the stable, opposite-spin configuration by abstracting electrons or hydrogen atoms from adjacent molecules. Perhaps the most familiar clinical expression of free radical injury in tissues is that induced by ionizing radiation. For example, the oxygen effect4 of radiobiology, in which radiation damage leading to cell death is enhanced in the presence of molecular oxygen, is substantially mediated by reduced forms of the oxygen molecule resulting from the stepwise addition of electrons. These reduced forms, called “oxygen radicals” or “active oxygens,” include the superoxide anion radical (02-) and its protonated form the perhydroxyl radical (HO,.) produced at low pH (both singly reduced), hydrogen peroxide (doubly reduced), and hydroxyl radical (OH In vivo. hydrogen peroxide is produced by dismutation of superoxide anions, a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme superoxide dismutase.* Hydroxyl radical is derived by single electron reduction of hydrogen peroxide. When catalyzed by ferrous ion, this reaction is known as the Fenton reaction. Because ferrous ion is released from iron-binding sites by the interaction of superoxide anion with (ferri) proteins? the reaction is “site specific,” and is designated as the iron-catalyzed, superoxide-driven Fenton reaction.”(Without the redox participation of iron ions, the process is known as the Haber-Weiss reaction.) The perhydroxyl radical,” and especially the hydroxyl radical,’, can vigorously abstract hydrogen atoms from unsaturated fatty acids to form lipid radicals; this is the initial step in the chain process of lipid peroxidation. Lipid peroxidation is also known as lipid autoxidation, because in the presence of oxygen the lipid radical is spontaneously peroxidized (molecular oxygen is added directly). The resultant peroxy radical is capable of abstracting a hydrogen atom from a neighboring molecule, thus transferring radical character to this target molecule while transforming itself into a neutral hydroperoxide mole~ ule.”,~*’~*’~ The new radical can then reinitiate and propagate the cycle in chain fashion. The product hydroperoxides can be dissociated by ferrous ion into alkoxyl free radicals, in a manner analogous to the Fenton reaction.