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Superoxide Dismutase and Catalase in the Organs of Mammals of Different Ecogenesis

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The activities of the key antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase and catalase, were studied in the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, and skeletal muscle of 8 mammalian species. In all studied animals the regularities of distribution of the enzymes were found to be, as a rule, the same like in other mammals: a high activity in the liver and a lower activity, in other organs. At the same time, certain species- specific differences were noticed: the activities of the enzymes in the same organ considerably differed even in the taxonomically close species, which appears to depend, first of all, on specificity of animal ecology.

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Ilyukha, V.A. Superoxide Dismutase and Catalase in the Organs of Mammals of Different Ecogenesis. Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology 37, 241–245 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012663105999

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