The contribution of ascorbic acid and dehydroascorbic acid to the protective role of pleura during inflammatory reactions

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 860-863

  Gogou, Eydoxia ^a   Hatzoglou, Chryssi ^a   Chamos, Vasileios ^a   Zarogiannis, Sotirios ^a   Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos I ^a   Molyvdas, Paschalis Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MESOTHELIUM; MESOTHELIUM CELL; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERMEABILITY; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CYTOPLASM; DEHYDROASCORBIC ACID; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLEURA; SHEEP; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33846347210     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.07.057     Document Type: Article

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