Redox molecules and cancer prevention: The importance of understanding the role of the antioxidant network

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 232-240

  Serafini, Mauro ^a   Villano, Debora ^a   Spera, Giovanni ^c   Pellegrini, Nicoletta ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; PLACEBO; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RETINOL; SELENIUM; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICHOKE; BROCCOLI; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARROT; CAULIFLOWER; CHICORY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ONION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RED WINE; SKIN CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURNIP; VEGETABLE;

ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DIET; DRUG SYNERGISM; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RISK FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 33947218319     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327914nc5602_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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