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Roshan Pillai1, Jane H Uyehara-Lock, Frederick P Bellinger

  • 1Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA.

IUBMB Life
|March 27, 2014
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Keywords:
Alzheimer's diseaseHuntington's diseaseParkinson's diseaseepilepsyglutathioneglutathione peroxidasephospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidaseseleniumselenoproteinthioredoxin reductase

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