Chronic Vitamin C Deficiency does not Accelerate Oxidative Stress in Ageing Brains of Guinea Pigs

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 524-529

  Tveden Nyborg, Pernille ^a   Hasselholt, Stine ^a   Miyashita, Namiyo ^a   Moos, Torben ^b   Poulsen, Henrik E ^c   Lykkesfeldt, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BETA ACTIN; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P53; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID OXIDATION; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REDOX STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTATHIONE; GUINEA PIGS; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA;

EID: 84861337467     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2011.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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