Dose dependent elevation of plasma tocotrienol levels and its effect on arterial compliance, plasma total antioxidant status, and lipid profile in healthy humans supplemented with tocotrienol rich vitamin E

Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 473-478

  Rasool, Aida H G ^a   Yuen, Kah H ^b   Yusoff, Khalid ^c   Wong, Abdul R ^a   Rahman, Abdul R A ^d  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^d CYBERJAYA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

, and tocotrienol plasma concentration; Arterial compliance; Tocotrienol rich vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; CHOLESTEROL; DELTA TOCOTRIENOL; GAMMA TOCOTRIENOL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLACEBO; TOCOPHEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG FORMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID ANALYSIS; MALE; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; COMPLIANCE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; TOCOTRIENOLS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 33847124019     PISSN: 03014800     EISSN: 18817742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3177/jnsv.52.473     Document Type: Article

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