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Chronic Dietary Supplementation of 4% Figs on the Modification of Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer’s Disease Transgenic Mouse Model
Selvaraju Subash, 1 , 2 Musthafa Mohamed Essa, 1 , 2 ,* Abdullah Al-Asmi, 2 , 3 Samir Al-Adawi, 2 , 3 and Ragini Vaishnav