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Signal Transduction by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species: Pathways and Chemical Principles

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  1. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Henry Jay Forman

  2. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Jon Fukuto

  3. Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Martine Torres

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Schafer, F.Q., Buettner, G.R. (2003). Redox State and Redox Environment in Biology. In: Forman, H.J., Fukuto, J., Torres, M. (eds) Signal Transduction by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species: Pathways and Chemical Principles. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48412-9_1

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