Antioxidant status in children with homozygous β-thalassemia

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1141-1145

  Dhawan, Veena ^a   Kumar, Kh Ratan ^a   Marwaha, R K ^a   Ganguly, Nirmal K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

thalassemia; Red blood cells; Superoxide dismutase; Vitamin A; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; RETINOL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; THALASSEMIA MAJOR; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD; CHILD; METABOLISM;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E;

EID: 33644689756     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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