Synthetic pharmacological agents antioxidant activity

At present, many natural and synthetic chelators have been studied as potential pharmacological agents for the treatment of iron or copper overload under various pathophysiological conditions. (The chelating activity of flavonoids was already discussed above and the application of chelators in thalassemia and some other pathologies is considered in Chapter 31.) There are specific thermodynamic demands to chelators to be efficient antioxidants [369], We will consider just several chelators of potential therapeutic importance. 

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