To Be or Not to Be… An Antioxidant? That Is the Question.

Antioxidants (Basel)

Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Animal Nutrition, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Armilla, 18100 Granada, Spain.

Published: December 2020


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The concept of antioxidants refers to a substance with the capacity to either directly scavenge or indirectly prevent the formation of pro-oxidant molecules, basically associated to the so called reactive oxygen species (ROS) [...].

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