Effect of different doses of vitamin E on the incidence of malformations in pregnant diabetic rats

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 6-10

  Viana, Marta ^a   Castro, Mario ^a   Barbas, Coral ^a   Herrera, Emilio ^a   Bonet, Bartolome ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Free radicals; Pregnancy; Teratogenesis; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; DNA; PROTEIN; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMITE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMITES; STREPTOZOCIN; VITAMIN E;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037217430     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068907     Document Type: Article

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