Vitamin C supplementation modulates gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells specifically upon an inflammatory stimulus: A pilot study in healthy subjects

Genes and Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Canali, Raffaella ^a   Natarelli, Lucia ^a   Leoni, Guido ^a   Azzini, Elena ^a   Comitato, Raffaella ^a   Sancak, Oezgur ^b   Barella, Luca ^b   Virgili, Fabio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b Bayer Consumer Care AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Gene expression; Inflammation; PBMNC; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CALNEXIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CANX GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EIF3D GENE; EIF4G2 GENE; FAU GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IK GENE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NPM1 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PILOT STUDY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PSEUDOGENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; UPREGULATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84894880886     PISSN: 15558932     EISSN: 18653499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12263-014-0390-x     Document Type: Article

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