Role of superoxide dismutase in survival of Leishmania within the macrophage
Intracellular parasitic protozoans of the genus Leishmania depend for their survival on the elaboration of enzymic and other mechanisms for evading toxic free-radical damage inflicted by their phagocytic macrophage host. One such mechanism may involve superoxide dismutase (SOD), which detoxifies rea...
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Portland Press Limited
2003
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