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[Experimental medicine]
Anna Khodzhayan; Karine Elbekyan; Margarita Gevandova; Evgeny Shchetinin;
A set of heavy metal salts cause immunosup- pression in rats while the pineal hormone melatonin can mitigate the resulting alterations due to its anti- oxidant and chelating activity.
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Keywords: heavy metals, immune system, melatonin