Biological variability in serum vitamin E concentrations: Relation to serum lipids

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1824-1831

  Maes, Michael ^a,b,c   Weeckx, Steven ^d   Wauters, Annick ^e   Neels, Hugo ^e   Scharpé, Simon ^d   Verkerk, Robert ^d   Demedts, Paul ^e   Desnyder, Roger ^a  

^a Stuivenberg General Hospital   (Belgium)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

apolipoprotein; cholesterol; chronobiology; high density lipoprotein; low density lipoprotein; seasonality; triglycerides; variation, source of

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONOBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029824011     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/42.11.1824     Document Type: Article

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