Effect of mixed-tocotrienols in hypercholesterolemic subjects

Functional Foods in Health and Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 106-117

  Yuen, Kah Hay ^a   Wong, Jia Woei ^a   Lim, Ai Beoy ^a   Ng, Bee Hong ^a   Choy, Wai Peng ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cholesterol lowering; LDL cholesterol; Tocopherols; Tocotrienols; Total cholesterol

Indexed keywords

EID: 85092679539     PISSN: 23787007     EISSN: 21603855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.31989/ffhd.v1i3.136     Document Type: Article

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