Ethics statement The animal study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (Vet CU13102024983)
Reduced glutathione, the active form of this antioxidant, becomes oxidized, deactivated, during its antioxidant activity, thus, requiring reduction through glutathione reductase to regain its antioxidant activity
Therefore, blood tests can be performed to determine a person's glutathione levels, but these blood tests only measure plasma or serum glutathione levels and may not fully reflect glutathione levels at the cellular level
PNC0000003 - AdvaNced Technologies for Human-centrEd Medicine (project acronym: ANTHEM)
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