TY - JOUR ID - TI - NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS), FREE RADICALS AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES (ROS): A REVIEW OF LITERATURE AU - Karam-Allah S. Mahmood AU - Jawad H. Ahmed AU - Abdullah M. Jawad PY - 2009 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 46 EP - 53 JO - The Medical Journal of Basrah University المجلة الطبية لجامعة البصرة SN - 02530759 AB - ABSTRACTA wide controversy exists regarding the effect of NSAIDs on the oxidative status. Each member of these NSAIDs hasbeen shown to act both as antioxidant or pro-oxidant in different test systems, using different concentrations andvarious oxidative stress-inducing agents. This review tackles this problem and tries to look for factors that might beresponsible for this variation in results.

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