Lipid peroxidation in neural tissues and fractions from vitamin E-deficient rats

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 639-648

  MacEvilly, Conor J ^a   Muller, David P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axolemma; Free radicals; Lipid peroxidation; Myelin; Neural fractions; Neural tissues; Oxidative stress; Vitamin E deficiency

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; MYELIN;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MICROSOME; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; NERVE TISSUE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; VITAMIN E; VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0029866829     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0891-5849(95)02147-7     Document Type: Article

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