Melatonin is a scavenger of peroxynitrite.

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Life Science

• Publication date

  1997-01-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1016/S0024-3205(97)00008-8PMID 9064472
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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