Antioxidant enzyme activities in healthy Chinese adults: Influence of age, gender and smoking

Respirology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-309

  Ho, Siu P ^a   Chan Yeung, Moira ^a   Chow, Kathy K M ^a   Ip, Mary S M ^a   Mak, Judith C W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Catalase; Erythrocyte; Glutathione peroxidase; Smoking; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CATALASE; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 22644432498     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2005.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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