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Cimen Karasu1, Ahmet Cumaoğlu, Ali Rifat Gürpinar

  • 1Cellular Stress Response & Signal Transduction Research Laboratory, Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

Interdisciplinary Toxicology
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Pomegranatealdose reductase inhibitionantioxidantdiabetic complications

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