Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 3 , Pages 296-304 , March 2010

Effect of phytosterols on copper lipid peroxidation of human low-density lipoproteins

  • Gianna Ferretti, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Biochimica, Biologia e Genetica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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  • Tiziana Bacchetti, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Biochimica, Biologia e Genetica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +071-220-4968; fax: +071-220-4398.
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  • Simona Masciangelo, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio Sperimentale di Ricerche Nutrizionali Istituto Auxologico Italiano (IRCSS), Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Piancavallo, Italy
    • ,
  • Virginia Bicchiega, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratorio Sperimentale di Ricerche Nutrizionali Istituto Auxologico Italiano (IRCSS), Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Piancavallo, Italy

Received 13 November 2008 ,Accepted 15 April 2009.

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Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 3 , Pages 296-304 , March 2010

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