Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Research Fund of Ghent University, Belgium, grant BOF08/GOA/004 and BOF14/GOA/010 and Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (grant FWO14/PDO/067)
Quercetin maintains oxidative balance and therefore is a powerful antioxidant
Recently, it was also shown to behave as an antioxidant and an anti-inflammatory agent in various pathological conditions like hypertension, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases
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Glutathione is a tripeptide, which is a small protein-like molecule made of three specific amino acids
In addition, genetic damage and neoplastic transformation have been demonstrated in cells co-cultured in vitro with activated phagocytes [149] and the genotoxic effects observed include formation of DNA strand breaks [151], sister chromatid exchange [154] and mutations [155]