γ-Glutamyl cysteine synthetase is up-regulated during recovery of brain mitochondrial complex I following neurotoxic insult in mice
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Acknowledgements
We thank Dr T. Kavanagh, University of Washington for the gift of the cDNA to the heavy subunit of γ-GCS. We also thank Ms L. Diwakar and S.N. Hegde for their help with some experiments. This work was funded by the US India fund for cultural, educational and scientific co-operation.
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