The impact of different antioxidant agents alone or in combination on reactive oxygen species, antioxidant enyzmes and cytokines in a series of advanced cancer patients at different sites: Correlation with disease progression

Free Radical Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 213-223

  Mantovani, Giovanni ^a   Macciò, Antonio ^b   Madeddu, Clelia ^a   Mura, Loredana ^a   Gramignano, Giulia ^a   Lusso, Maria Rita ^a   Murgia, Viviana ^a   Camboni, Paolo ^a   Ferreli, Luca ^a   Mocci, Miria ^a   Massa, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Carbonia Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant agents; Cancer patients; Cytokines; Disease progression; Glutathione peroxidase; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMIFOSTINE; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CARBOCISTEINE; CYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; CYTOKINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LYSINE DERIVATIVE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOL; THIOBEC; THIOCTIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIOXIDANTS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 12244299440     PISSN: 10715762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10715760303849     Document Type: Review

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