Similar acute haemolytic attacks have been observed, predominantly in men of Afro-Caribbean origin, in response to primaquine and a variety of other drugs, including dapsone, the antipyretic acetylphenylhydrazine, the antibacterial bactrim/septrim, sulphonamides and sulphones, whose only common feature is that they all undergo cyclic non-enzymic reactions in the presence of oxygen to produce hydrogen peroxide and a variety of oxygen radicals that can cause oxidative damage to membrane lipids, leading to haemolysis
The traditional use of this plant in folk medicine may be due to its ability to maintain stable hematological parameters, body weight, and lack of fatalities (712)
The physiological relevance of the kinetic uncoupling is that it allows the formation of stable complexes, for example, with ironsulfur clusters or disulfide-bonded interaction partners
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VCO appears to have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory characteristics that protect against the tissue toxicity of anti-neoplastic and anti-retroviral treatment (Famurewa et al
