PM(10) impairs the antioxidant defense system and exacerbates oxidative stress driven cell death

Yolanda I Chirino1, Yesennia Sánchez-Pérez, Alvaro R Osornio-Vargas

  • 1Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Tlalpan, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

Toxicology Letters
|January 26, 2010
PubMed

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