Antioxidant status and human health. Use of cyclic voltammetry for the evaluation of the antioxidant capacity of plasma and of edible plants

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 899, Issue , 2000, Pages 308-325

  Chevion, Shlomit ^a,b   Chevion, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT; SCREENING; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 0034121857     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06196.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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