Vitamin C improves endothelial dysfunction in renal allograft recipients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1251-1255

  Williams, Michael J A ^a   Sutherland, Wayne H F ^a   McCormick, Maree P ^a   De Jong, Sylvia A ^a   McDonald, John R ^a   Walker, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Ascorbic acid; Endothelium; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLYCEROL NITRATE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LIPOPROTEIN; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DILUTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MALE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECIPIENT; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0034970116     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.6.1251     Document Type: Article

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