Glutathione Reductase
"Glutathione Reductase" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Catalyzes the oxidation of GLUTATHIONE to GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE in the presence of NADP+. Deficiency in the enzyme is associated with HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA. Formerly listed as EC 1.6.4.2.
| Descriptor ID |
D005980
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.682.667.092
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| Concept/Terms |
Glutathione Reductase- Glutathione Reductase
- Reductase, Glutathione
- Glutathione-Disulfide Reductase
- Reductase, Glutathione-Disulfide
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Glutathione Reductase" by people in Profiles.
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Cribb AE, Miller M, Leeder JS, Hill J, Spielberg SP. Reactions of the nitroso and hydroxylamine metabolites of sulfamethoxazole with reduced glutathione. Implications for idiosyncratic toxicity. Drug Metab Dispos. 1991 Sep-Oct; 19(5):900-6.
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Cribb AE, Leeder JS, Spielberg SP. Use of a microplate reader in an assay of glutathione reductase using 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid). Anal Biochem. 1989 Nov 15; 183(1):195-6.
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Orlowski M, Karkowsky A. Glutathione metabolism and some possible functions of glutathione in the nervous system. Int Rev Neurobiol. 1976; 19:75-121.