Melatonin directly scavenges hydrogen peroxide: a potentially new metabolic pathway of melatonin biotransformation
- 27 November 2000
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Free Radical Biology & Medicine
- Vol. 29 (11), 1177-1185
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0891-5849(00)00435-4
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