Browsing Wellington Faculty of Science · Te Wahanga Putaiao by Subject "Oxidative stress"

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The Characterization of TA-289, a Novel Antifungal from Fusarium sp.

Quek, Natelle C H (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Natural products offer vast structural and chemical diversity highly sought after in drug discovery research. Saccharomyces cerevisiae makes an ideal model eukaryotic organism for drug mode-of-action studies owing to ease ...
Glutathione peroxidase in acute coronary syndromes

Holley, Ana Simone (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) are among the primary antioxidant enzymes that scavenge reactive oxygen species in the blood (ROS), thereby protecting against high levels of oxidative stress. ...
Symbiont diversity and coral bleaching: An antioxidant view on thermal stress

Krüger, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The functioning of coral reef systems, as biodiversity hotspots, is largely dependent on the symbiotic association between dinoflagellate symbionts (Symbiodinium spp.) and scleractinian coral hosts. The breakdown of this ...