Gamma-tocopherol may promote effective no synthase function by protecting tetrahydrobiopterin from peroxynitrite

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1367-1370

  McCarty, Mark F ^a  

^a NutriGuard Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIUM DERIVED RELAXING FACTOR; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXYNITRITE; SCAVENGER; SYNTHETASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIETARY INTAKE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; THROMBOCYTE; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY DISEASE; DIET; ENDOTHELIUM; GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUTS; PEROXYNITROUS ACID; RISK;

JUGLANS; RODENTIA;

EID: 35448970661     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.11.050     Document Type: Article

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