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Reactive Oxygen Species 3

Reactive Oxygen Species 3

Toxic influences as well as the metabolic processes that produce oxidative stress in aquatic organisms and mammals are similar. Many common commercial chemicals, such as herbicides and pesticides, can induce the production of reactive oxygen species by several biochemical mechanisms including the impairment of membrane-bound electron transport and the subsequent accumulation of reduced intermediates.

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