Selenium intake, mood and other aspects of psychological functioning

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 363-374

  Benton, David ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CATALASE; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IRON; LIOTHYRONINE; LIPID; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; OXYGEN RADICAL; PLACEBO; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SELENIUM; SELENOPROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN B GROUP;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG POTENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD INTAKE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; SOIL; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AFFECT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELENIUM;

EID: 0036904822     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415021000055925     Document Type: Review

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