Effects of vitamin E administration on the hemorheological status and redox homeostasis of patients with porphyria cutanea tarda treated with phlebotomy

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-23

  Szekely E ^a   Vereckei, A ^b   Almasi A ^a   Rapavi, E ^b   Tasnadi Gy ^a   Varnai K ^a   Pallai, Zs ^c   Lugasi, A ^d   Blázovics, Anna ^b  

^a MAV Hospital   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Diachem Kft ^*  (Hungary)

^d National Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hemorheological status; Oxidative stress; Porphyria cutanea tarda; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; IRON; LIPID; PORPHYRIN; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; UROPORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRON METABOLISM; LABORATORY TEST; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHLEBOTOMY; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PORPHYRIN METABOLISM; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; FECES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHLEBOTOMY; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PORPHYRINS; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; UROPORPHYRINS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E;

EID: 33846113220     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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