Impaired Glutathione Synthesis in Neurodegeneration

Glutathione (GSH) was discovered in yeast cells in 1888. Studies of GSH in mammalian cells before the 1980s focused exclusively on its function for the detoxication of xenobiotics or for drug metabolism in the liver, in which GSH is present at its highest concentration in the body. Increasing eviden...

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Main Authors: Toshio Nakaki, Koji Aoyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-10-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/14/10/21021