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Lest I Forget Thee, Glutathione …

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Glutathione plays many parts in living organisms, and new methods for the oxidation of this tripeptide reveal some of them. This review of the present situation ends with some suggestions for the future.

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  1. Departments of Biophysics and Biological Ultrastructure, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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  2. Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 11790

    E. M. KOSOWER

  3. Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, 10461

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