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Adv Pharm Bull. 2019;9(2): 294-301. doi: 10.15171/apb.2019.034
PMID: 31380256        PMCID: PMC6664115

Research Article

Carnosine Mitigates Manganese Mitotoxicity in an In Vitro Model of Isolated Brain Mitochondria

Vahid Ghanbarinejad 1,2, Asrin Ahmadi 1, Hossein Niknahad 1,2, Mohammad Mehdi Ommati 1, Reza Heidari 1 * ORCID

Cited by CrossRef: 9


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