The flavonoids: Antioxidants or prooxidants;Los flavonoides: Antioxidantes o prooxidantes

Revista Cubana de Investigaciones Biomedicas

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 48-57

  Trueba, Gilberto Pérez ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS BÁSICAS Y PRECLÍNICAS VICTORIA DE GIRÓN   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Antioxidants therapeutic use; Diet therapy; Flavones toxicity; Flavones therapeutic use; Free radicals therapeutic use

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952764415     PISSN: 08640300     EISSN: 15613011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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