Elisa DellAglio 1 and Amna Mhamdi 2 1 Institut National des Sciences Appliques-Lyon, 69100 Villeurbanne, France 2 Ghent University, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, and VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, 9052 Ghent, Belgium Address correspondence to [email protected] Ascorbate (vitamin C) is one of the main redox buffers required for metabolizing reactive oxygen species
Cats are thought to be particularly susceptible to oxidative injury because feline Hb contains 810 reactive sulfhydryl groups rather than 4 as in the dog and other mammalian species (Reference Vajdovich, Gal and Szilgyi16,Reference Kapun, Salobir and Levart41,Reference Gal, Speake and Mezes45,Reference Moyer and Trepanier46)
Women over 50 often face a compounded set of challenges: declining estrogen levels affect muscle mass, balance, and bone health
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