Wasil M, Halliwell B, Grootveld M, Moorhouse C P, Hutchison D C, Baum H
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Medicine, King's College (KQC), Denmark Hill, London, U.K.
Biochem J. 1987 May 1;243(3):867-70. doi: 10.1042/bj2430867.
Thiourea and dimethylthiourea are powerful scavengers of hydroxyl radicals (.OH), and dimethylthiourea has been used to test the involvement of .OH in several animal models of human disease. It is shown that both thiourea and dimethylthiourea are scavengers of HOCl, a powerful oxidant produced by neutrophil myeloperoxidase. Hence the ability of dimethylthiourea to protect against neutrophil-mediated tissue damage cannot be used as evidence for a role of .OH in causing such damage. Dimethyl sulphoxide also reacts with HOCl, but at a rate that is probably too low to be biologically significant at dimethyl sulphoxide concentrations up to 10 mM. Neither mannitol nor desferrioxamine, at the concentrations normally used in radical-generating systems, appears to react with HOCl.
硫脲和二甲基硫脲是羟基自由基(·OH)的强效清除剂,二甲基硫脲已被用于在多种人类疾病动物模型中检测·OH的参与情况。结果表明,硫脲和二甲基硫脲都是次氯酸(HOCl)的清除剂,次氯酸是中性粒细胞髓过氧化物酶产生的一种强氧化剂。因此,二甲基硫脲预防中性粒细胞介导的组织损伤的能力不能用作·OH在引起此类损伤中起作用的证据。二甲基亚砜也与HOCl反应,但在二甲基亚砜浓度高达10 mM时,其反应速率可能过低,不具有生物学意义。在自由基生成系统中通常使用的浓度下,甘露醇和去铁胺似乎都不与HOCl反应。