"Oxidation-Reduction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A chemical reaction in which an electron is transferred from one molecule to another. The electron-donating molecule is the reducing agent or reductant; the electron-accepting molecule is the oxidizing agent or oxidant. Reducing and oxidizing agents function as conjugate reductant-oxidant pairs or redox pairs (Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 1982, p471).
| Descriptor ID |
D010084
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.700 G03.295.531
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