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Oxidative stress is believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of many important degenerative diseases, especially in the Central Nervous System, where oxygen is utilized in very high amount, and scavengers of toxic substances might be insufficient when neurons are over-stimulated or ageing processes accumulate peroxide lipids (Halliwell, 1992).
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Politi, V., D’Alessio, S., Di Stazio, G., De Luca, G. (1996). Antioxidant Properties of Indole-3-Pyruvic Acid. In: Filippini, G.A., Costa, C.V.L., Bertazzo, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Tryptophan Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 398. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0381-7_46
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