Vitamin E, 5-lipoxygenase and oxidative stress in haemodialysis patients: Facts, not fancies

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 772-773

  Gallucci, Massimo Taccone ^a   Di Villahermosa, Simone Manca ^a   Maccarrone, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ARACHIDONATE 5 LIPOXYGENASE; FISH OIL; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART PROTECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ARACHIDONATE 5-LIPOXYGENASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 44449112208     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm770     Document Type: Letter

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