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Oxidative DNA damage and total antioxidant status in serum of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Hepato-gastroenterology - 1 Sept 2007
Diakowska Dorota, Lewandowski Andrzej, Kopeć Wacław, Diakowski Witold, Chrzanowska Teresa
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Oxidative stress is connected with activation of somatic mutations and rates of cell proliferation existing in cancer tissue. High level of reactive oxygen species is a mutagenic factor for DNA damage. Antioxidants are the components of the cellular defense mechanism against reac...
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