Glutathione metabolism under high-altitude stress and effect of antioxidant supplementation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1106-1111

  Vats, Praveen ^a   Singh, Vijay K ^a   Singh, Som N ^a   Singh, Shashi B ^b  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b Leh Ladakh C o 56APO   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Glutathione peroxidase; Glutathione reductase; N acetyl cysteine; Oxidative stress; Vitamin C E

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEA LEVEL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ERYTHROCYTES; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; FREE RADICALS; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOCOPHEROLS;

EID: 57149110834     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2305.2008     Document Type: Article

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