“…In common with other aromatic phenols, gossypol is an antioxidant (Adams et al, 1960;Janero and Burghardt, 1988). Gossypol has been found to inhibit several kinetic enzymes (Maugh, 1981;Hoffer, 1985;Lee et al, 1985;Mohri, 1985;Rovan et al, 1985;Sadykov et al, 1985;Tso, 1985;Tso et al, 1985;Moore et al, 1988). In addition, it inhibits a number of oxidoreductases (Gerez DeBurgos et al, 1984) as well as arachidonate lipoxygenases (Hamasaki and Tai, 1985).…”