Antioxidant and prooxidant properties of flavonoids

Fitoterapia - Tập 82 Số 4 - Trang 513-523 - 2011
Dagmar Procházková1, Iva Boušová, N. Wilhelmová
1Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic. [email protected]

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