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Oxidants, Radicals, Free Radicals, and Other Bad Stuff in Mechanisms of Toxicity

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In the 1983 movie, Never Say Never Again, the threat to human civilization of greatest concern to those selected to protect us from evil was identified thus:

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  1. Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, 1900 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101, USA

    Charles Vincent Smith

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  1. Center for Environmental & Human Toxicology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Stephen M. Roberts

  2. Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    James P. Kehrer

  3. Department of Nutrigenomics, Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

    Lars-Oliver Klotz

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Smith, C.V. (2015). Oxidants, Radicals, Free Radicals, and Other Bad Stuff in Mechanisms of Toxicity. In: Roberts, S., Kehrer, J., Klotz, LO. (eds) Studies on Experimental Toxicology and Pharmacology. Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19096-9_3

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