Letter to the editor

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 641-642

  McGregor, G ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; OXYGEN RADICAL;

HYPOTHESIS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LETTER; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; GASTRITIS; METABOLISM; NOTE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PANCREATITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ASCORBIC ACID; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FREE RADICALS; GASTRITIS; INFLAMMATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 16544368212     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2003.12.013     Document Type: Letter

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