Redox Pioneer: Professor Leopold Flohé

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1617-1622

  Ursini, Fulvio ^a   Maiorino, Matilde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; SELENIUM; SELENOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOCHEMISTRY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SELENIUM; SELENOPROTEINS;

EID: 79959529426     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: 15577716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2010.3192     Document Type: Article

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