Glutathione is a crucial guardian of protein integrity in the brain upon nitric oxide imbalance

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 477-479

  Aquilano, Katia ^a   Baldelli, Sara ^b   Ciriolo, Maria Rosa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Brain; L buthionine sulfoximine; L NAME; Protein nitration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996848271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.15654     Document Type: Article

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