Do vitamin E supplements in diets for laboratory animals jeopardize findings in animal models of disease?

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 472-481

  Lehr, Hans Anton ^a   Vajkoczy, Peter ^b   Menger, Michael D ^c   Arfors, Karl E ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Experimental Medicine Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Diet; Disease; Free radical; Health; Protection; Tocopherol; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ANIMAL MODEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FERTILITY; HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VITAMIN E;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032899938     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(98)00219-6     Document Type: Review

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