β-Carotene Decreases Markers of Lipid Peroxidation in Healthy Volunteers

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 207-212

  Bowen, Phyllis ^b   Sugerman, Sharon ^b   Mobarhan, Sohrab ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; LIPID PEROXIDE; PENTANE; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BREATH ANALYSIS; DIET; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; BETA CAROTENE; BREATH TESTS; CAROTENOIDS; FREE RADICALS; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; PENTANES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027196051     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: 15327914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589309514251     Document Type: Article

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