The Antioxidant Role of Xanthurenic Acid in the Aedes aegypti Midgut during Digestion of a Blood Meal

In the midgut of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, a vector of dengue and yellow fever, an intense release of heme and iron takes place during the digestion of a blood meal. Here, we demonstrated via chromatography, light absorption and mass spectrometry that xanthurenic acid (XA), a product of the oxidat...

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Autores principales: Lima, Vitor L. A., Dias, Felipe, Nunes, Rodrigo D., Pereira, Luiza O., Santos, Tiago S. R., Chiarini, Luciana B., Ramos, Tadeu D., Silva-Mendes, Bernardo J., Perales, Jonas, Valente, Richard H., Oliveira, Pedro L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038349

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22701629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038349

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