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Natural antioxidants in human health and disease /
This book serves as a comprehensive overview of the current scientific knowledge on the health effects of dietary and supplemental antioxidants (such as vitamins C and E). Chapters integrate information from basic research and animal studies, epidemiologic studies, and clinical intervention trials....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego :
Academic Press,
�1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Oxidants and antioxidants
- Free radicals and lipid peroxidation: what they are and how they got that way / William A. Pryor
- Free radicals in biology: sources, reactivities and roles in the etiology of human diseases / James P. Kehrer, Charles V. Smith
- Oxidants and mitochondrial decay in aging / Mark K. Shigenaga, Bruce N. Ames
- Nonenzymatic antioxidant defense systems / Karlis Briviba, Helmut Sies
- Cancer
- Ascorbic acid and cancer: animal and cell culture data / Gladys Block, Richard Schwarz
- Vitamin C, vitamin C-rich foods and cancer: epidemiologic studies / Elizabeth T.H. Fontham
- Vitamin E and cancer prevention / Paul Knekt
- Carotenoids and cancer: basic research studies / Norman I. Krinsky
- Epidemiology of selenium and human cancer / Miriam Garland [and others]
- Cardiovascular disease
- Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis / Colin J. Schwartz, Anthony J. Valente
- Antioxidant protection of low-density lipoprotein and its role in the prevention of atherosclerotic vascular disease / John F. Keaney, Jr., Balz Frei.
- (cont) Antioxidants as antiatherogens: animal studies / Sean M. Lynch, Balz Frei
- Natural antioxidants and cardiovascular disease: observational epidemiologic studies and randomized trials / J. Michael Gaziano, Joann E. Manson, Charles H. Hennekens
- Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and the cardioprotective potential of natural antioxidants / David R. Janero
- Immunity and infection
- Role of antioxidants in the maintenance of immune functions / Adrianne Bendich
- Ascorbic acid in neutrophils / Mark Levine [and others]
- Oxidants and antioxidants in viral diseases: metabolic regulation and autotoxicity / Ernst Peterhans
- Cataracts, neurological disorders and exercise
- Relationships between natural antioxidants and cataract formation / Paul F. Jacques, Leo T. Chylack, Jr., Allen Taylor
- Vitamin E and other antioxidants in neurological function and disease / David P.R. Muller
- Role of vitamin E and other antioxidants in physical exercise / Lester Packer, Abraham Z. Reznick, Sharon Landvik.