Is antioxidant plasma status in humans a consequence of the antioxidant food content influence?

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 185-192

  Di Renzo, L ^a,b   Di Pierro, D ^a   Bigioni, M ^a   Sodi, V ^a   Galvano, F ^c   Cianci, R ^a,d   La Fauci, L ^c   De Lorenzo, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b INDiM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antioxidant status; ORAC; Organic and conventional agriculture

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN RADICAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FARMING SYSTEM; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MILK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; ORGANIC FARMING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RED WINE; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; AGED; AMIDINES; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; OXIDANTS; PHYCOERYTHRIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; VEGETABLES; WINE;

EID: 34547524130     PISSN: 11283602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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