Oxidative stress in mothers who have conceived fetus with neural tube defects: The role of aminothiols and selenium

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 507-514

  Martín, Inmaculada ^a   Gibert, Ma José ^a   Pintos, Concepción ^a   Noguera, Aina ^a   Besalduch, Antoni ^b   Obrador, Antoni ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b Laboratorio Besalduch   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arginine; Neural tube defects; Oxidation reduction; Selenium,amino acids; Tetrahydrofolates

Indexed keywords

AMINOTHIOL; ARGININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINYLGLYCINE; FOLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; SELENIUM; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTEINE; DIPEPTIDES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHIONINE; MOTHERS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SELENIUM; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 4243141794     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2003.09.010     Document Type: Article

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