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Targeting aldehyde dehydrogenase 2: new therapeutic opportunities.
Physiological reviews - 1 Jan 2014
Chen Che-Hong, Ferreira Julio Cesar Batista, Gross Eric R, Mochly-Rosen Daria
Abstract excerpt
A family of detoxifying enzymes called aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs) has been a subject of recent interest, as its role in detoxifying aldehydes that accumulate through metabolism and to which we are exposed from the environment has been elucidated. Although the human genome has 19 ALDH genes, one ALDH emerges as a particularly important enzyme in a variety of human pathologies. This ALDH, ALDH2, is located in...
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