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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2018 Oct 24;12(11):2203–2220. doi: 10.1002/term.2744

FIGURE 10.

FIGURE 10

Calculated conversion of superoxide anion to H2O2 via Si induced (a) and control (b) SOD-1 expression. The equilibrium reaction, O2− + 2H+ = H2O2, was used for the base equilibrium reaction, and the addition of ionic Si versus Cu was compared. The use of a mass action model with the valence state of the element used a variable for the rate of reaction. It was found that an increase from 2+ valence to 4+ valence was found to reach equilibrium concentration of the reaction by a factor of 4 (from 32 to 8 hr). SOD: superoxide dismutase [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]