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Endogenous melatonin and oxidatively damaged guanine in DNA

BACKGROUND: A significant body of literature indicates that melatonin, a hormone primarily produced nocturnally by the pineal gland, is an important scavenger of hydroxyl radicals and other reactive oxygen species. Melatonin may also lower the rate of DNA base damage resulting from hydroxyl radical...

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Autores principales: Davanipour, Zoreh, Poulsen, Henrik E, Weimann, Allan, Sobel, Eugene
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19835624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6823-9-22

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