Free radicals can kill you: Lavoisier's oxygen revolution

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 649-652

  Weissmann, Gerald ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FREE RADICAL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; SULFITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; OXYGEN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APOPTOSIS; AUTISM; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN POISONING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; STROKE; X IRRADIATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HISTORY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY; FREE RADICALS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN;

EID: 77952302501     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.10-0301ufm     Document Type: Editorial

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