Antioxidant nutrients and environmental health: Introduction

Toxicology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-3

  Chow, Ching Kuang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BLEOMYCIN; CANCER GROWTH FACTOR; CAROTENOID; CATALASE; CIGARETTE SMOKE; ENDOTOXIN; ENZYME; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LEAD; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PROTEIN KINASE C; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPMENT; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GROWTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INGESTION; INHALATION; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 0037201942     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(02)00377-3     Document Type: Editorial

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