Ability of antioxidants to prevent oxidative mutations in Salmonella typhimurium TA102

Carl Elovson Grey1, Patrick Adlercreutz

  • 1Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.

Mutation Research
|June 6, 2003
PubMed

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