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MAYOR OXILIA, Rosa. Estrés Oxidativo y Sistema de Defensa Antioxidante. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop., dez. 2010, vol.5, no.2, p.23-29. ISSN 1996-3696.

Since the seventies there was an explosion in the areas of research and clinical practice, on free radicals and antioxidants. In this vast land which until yesterday was the heritage of chemists, biologists and physicists, medicine has been introduced steadily and an increasing number of health professionals interested in the phenomena of cellular oxidation

Palavras-chave: Antioxidants; Clinical practice; Radicals.