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Defective antioxidant defense system in patients with a human leptin gene mutation.
Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme - 1 Jul 2000
Ozata M, Uckaya G, Aydin A, Isimer A, Ozdemir I C
Abstract excerpt
Antioxidant defense system prevents the organism from the detrimental effects of free radicals via scavenging or inhibiting their formation. Changes in the antioxidant defense mechanisms and alterations of several essential trace elements in both plasma and various tissues of ob/ob mice have been reported previously. Recent finding of the restoration of the defective antioxidant enzyme activity after leptin...
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