How can a chemically well established antioxidant work differently when in the body?

IUBMB Life

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1159-1160

  Azzi, Angelo ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; BILIRUBIN; CAROTENE; CATALASE; ESTROGEN; GLUTATHIONE; MELATONIN; POLYPHENOL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOCTIC ACID; TOCOPHEROL; UBIQUINONE; URIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTHRITIS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANTS; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 77449090056     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.251     Document Type: Note

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