Oxidative Stress: Mechanism Of Cell Death Clarified

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Sat, 09/06/2008 - 17:15

Scientists have decrypted the molecular mechanism through which the death of cells is caused by oxidative stress.

This knowledge opens novel perspectives to systematically explore the benefit of targeted therapeutic interventions in the cure of aging and stress-related degenerative diseases.


 

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