The selenium link: The missing link in our understanding of biochemical trigger reactions?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-131

  Nyberg Swenson, B E ^a  

^a NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ASCORBIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEME; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MINERAL; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN; SELENATE; SELENIDE; SELENITE; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPROTEIN; SULFIDE; SULFUR; WATER;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033080896     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1997.0633     Document Type: Article

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