Antioxidant function of a novel selenopr
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Nadya Morozova; Erin P. Forry; Elena Shahid; Ann Marie Zavacki; John W. Harney;
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract **Background:** Insects appear to have diverged from both higher and lower organisms in their defense mechanisms against oxidative damage. They do not encode glutathione peroxidases or glutathione reductases, and their thioredoxin reductases exhibit distinct properties from those of hig