Nonenzymatic Antioxidant Defense Systems

Natural Antioxidants in Human Health and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 107-128

  Briviba, Karlis ^a   Sies, Helmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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