Quitting smoking raises whole blood glutathione

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1379-1381

  Lane, James D ^a   Opara, Emmanuel C ^a   Rose, Jed E ^b   Behm, Frederique ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Research Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Glutathione; Oxidative stress; Smoking; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; GLUTATHIONE; OXYGEN RADICAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0343703452     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00328-9     Document Type: Article

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