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The amount of literature on the subject of oxidative stress (OS) is truly vast—over 65 000 items are available under this heading in PubMed (of which 11 000 are review papers). This is hardly surprising given the role that OS plays in the pathophysiology of a variety of important disease processes that include heart failure, myocardial infarction, and Parkinson's. The high profile of OS in the medical literature is mirrored in the popular press and
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