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Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Volume 2015, Article ID 314560, 14 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/314560
Review Article

Protective Mechanisms of Flavonoids in Parkinson’s Disease

Kasthuri Bai Magalingam,1 Ammu Kutty Radhakrishnan,1 and Nagaraja Haleagrahara2

1Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, International Medical University, Bukit Jalil, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2Discipline of Biomedicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia

Received 22 October 2014; Accepted 29 January 2015

Academic Editor: Claudio Cabello-Verrugio

Copyright © 2015 Kasthuri Bai Magalingam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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