Zinc and copper toxicity in host defense against pathogens: Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a model example of an emerging paradigm
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1 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France 2 Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France 3 Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, Grenoble, France 4 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5249, Grenoble, France 5 UMR 5249, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France *Correspondence: [email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2013