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The many “faces” of copper in medicine and treatment

Copper (Cu) is an essential microelement found in all living organisms with the unique ability to adopt two different redox states—in the oxidized (Cu(2+)) and reduced (Cu(+)). It is required for survival and serves as an important catalytic cofactor in redox chemistry for proteins that carry out fu...

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Autores principales: Hordyjewska, Anna, Popiołek, Łukasz, Kocot, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4113679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10534-014-9736-5