Vegetarian diets and public health: Biomarker and redox connections

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1575-1591

  Benzie, Iris F F ^a   Wachtel Galor, Sissi ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SULFUR;

AGING; ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; DIETARY INTAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERYTHROCYTE; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; VEGETABLE; VEGETARIAN DIET; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIET, VEGETARIAN; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 77957725492     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2009.3024     Document Type: Review

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