Antioxidants: A tale of two stories

Drug News and Perspectives

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 579-585

  Pauwels, Ernest K J ^a   Erba, Paola A ^b   Kostkiewicz, Magdalena ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DAMAGE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA ADDUCT; DNA REPAIR; FOOD COMPOSITION; FRUIT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVIEW; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; ANTIOXIDANTS; APOPTOSIS; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS;

EID: 41649104283     PISSN: 02140934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dnp.2007.20.9.1162242     Document Type: Review

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