Reduced glutathione (GSH) is the active antioxidant species that directly scavenges reactive oxygen species and free radicals, while oxidized glutathione (GSSG) is formed when two GSH molecules are linked via a disulfide bond after oxidation
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Acknowledgements We thank all members of our laboratories at the Medical clinic 3 for their support and helpful discussions
Exposure to toxins, whether that is environmental toxins from gasoline or plastic or, you know, whatever industrial activity, or it is exposure to ethanol from all the drinks you are having or it is exposure to cigarette smoke from what you are smoking or what someone else is smoking in the enclosed room with you
doi:10.3389/fcell.2019.00298