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Antioxidant activity of L-ascorbic acid in wild-type and superoxide dismutase deficient strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Redox report : communications in free radical research - 1 Jan 2006
Saffi Jenifer, Sonego Luciano, Varela Queli Defaveri, Salvador Mirian
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Much has been published on the non-enzymatic antioxidant L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C), but even so its interaction with endogenous cellular defense systems has not yet been fully elucidated. Our study investigated the antioxidant activity of L-ascorbic acid in wild-type strain EG103 (SOD) Saccharomyces cerevisiae and isogenic mutant strains deficient in cytosolic superoxide dismutase (sod1delta), mitochondrial...
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