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ReviewMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2015

Roles of Sulfur Metabolism and Rhodanese in Detoxification and Anti-Oxidative Stress Functions in the Liver: Responses to Radiation Exposure.

Tetsuo Nakajima

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Review in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2022
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  13. Sulfur Administration in Fe-S Cluster Homeostasis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  18. Diallyl Disulfide Mitigates DNA Damage and Spleen Tissue Effects After Irradiation.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tetsuo NakajimaResearch Center for Radiation Protection, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisms must confront various environmental stresses. The liver is central to protecting against such stresses in mammals, and it has many detoxification and anti-oxidative stress functions. Radiation is a source of oxidative stress and is known to affect the liver and induce anti-oxidative responses. The detoxification enzyme rhodanese, which is also called thiosulfate sulfurtransferase (TST), has been demonstrated to be induced in the liver in response to radiation. Cyanide detoxification is a function of the liver, and rhodanese is a key enzyme involved in sulfur metabolism in that detoxification. Though the anti-oxidative stress system in which sulfur molecules such as thiol compounds are involved has attracted attention as a defense against radiation, detoxification enzymes may have other roles in this defense. Understanding how these functions are affected by alterations of sulfur metabolism (including thiol compounds) after irradiation would help uncover their roles in defense against cancer and other deleterious health effects, as well as environmental stress responses. This article reviews the roles of sulfur-related metabolism in oxidative stress regulation and detoxification for recovery from liver damage after radiation exposure, with particular attention to recent findings of sulfur-related enzymes such as rhodanese, which is unique in sulfur metabolism.

Indexed as

AnimalsCyanidesLiverMetabolic Detoxication, Phase IOxidative StressStress, PhysiologicalSulfurThiosulfate SulfurtransferaseCyanidesSulfurThiosulfate Sulfurtransferase

Identifiers

PMID26071878
PMCPMC4471854
OpenAlexW1918623159

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