“…A comparative study of thrombus formation in a ferrous chloride and a ferric chloride rat model has revealed a more severe thrombosis in the former model [8]. Thus, we have chosen the ferrous chloride rat model of arterial injury to examine the protective effects of superoxide dismutase *Address correspondence to this author at the Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Russian Cardiology Research Centre, 3 rd Cherepkovskaya str., Moscow 121552, Russia; Fax: +7-95-415-29-62, E-mail: alexmak@cardio.ru and catalase and of their covalent and non-covalent complexes [13,14].…”