Beneficial effects of α-lipoic acid and ascorbic acid on endothelium-dependent, nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in diabetic patients: Relation to parameters of oxidative stress

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-61

  Heitzer, Thomas ^a   Finckh, Barbara ^b   Albers, Sylvia ^a   Krohn, Karoline ^a   Kohlschütter, Alfried ^b   Meinertz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Klinik für Allgemeine Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lipoic; Diabetes mellitus; Endothelium derived nitric oxide; Free radicals; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ASCORBIC ACID; MALONALDEHYDE; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; THIOCTIC ACID; UBIQUINOL 10; UBIQUINONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; THIOCTIC ACID; VASODILATION;

EID: 0035399871     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(01)00551-2     Document Type: Article

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