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Iron chelators and their use in the prevention of various free-radical-mediated tissue damages

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2001

Abstract

The usefulness of anthracycline antibiotic is limited by their cardiotoxicity which is caused - at least partly - by formation of free oxygen radicals. Iron chelators are studied and used as potential cardioprotective drugs.