Variations in erythrocyte antioxidant glutathione peroxidase activity during the menstrual cycle

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-67

  Massafra, Cosimo ^a   De Felice, Claudio ^a   Gioia, Dino ^a   Buonocore, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL DAMAGE; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY;

EID: 0031846246     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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