B-group vitamin supplementation mitigates oxidative damage after acute ischaemic stroke

Clinical Science

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 477-484

  Ullegaddi, Rajesh ^a   Powers, Hilary J ^a   Gariballa, Salah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B group vitamin; C reactive protein; Homocysteine; Ischaemia; Malondialdehyde; Stroke; Total antioxidant capacity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALONALDEHYDE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE; RIBOFLAVIN; VITAMIN B GROUP;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TISSUE INJURY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 8644288059     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/CS20040134     Document Type: Article

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