Vitamin E mediates cell signaling and regulation of gene expression

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1031, Issue , 2004, Pages 86-95

  Azzi, Angelo ^a   Gysin, René ^a   Kempná, Petra ^a   Munteanu, Adelina ^a   Negis, Yesim ^a   Villacorta, Luis ^a   Visarius, Theresa ^a   Zingg, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell regulation; Gene expression; Inhibition of cell proliferation; Receptor; Signal transduction; Transcription factor; Vitamin E; Tocopherol (tocopherols, tocotrienols)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL TRANSFER PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CD36 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN ALPHA1 CHAIN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN E; CYTOCHROME P450 3A; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN IIB; INTEGRIN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 19; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE C; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR BI; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TROPOMYOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG UPTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIPID TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UPREGULATION;

EID: 14944349576     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1331.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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