Flavonoids: antioxidants or signalling molecules?

Free Radical Biology and Medicine - Tập 36 Số 7 - Trang 838-849 - 2004
R Williams1, Jeremy P. E. Spencer1, Catherine Rice‐Evans1
1Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, GKT School of Biomedical Sciences, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London SE1 9RT, UK

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