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» Scientific References » Antioxidant Activity

Antioxidant Activity

2006

Palozza P, Verdecchia S, Avanzi L, Vertuani S, Serini S, Iannone A, Manfredini S (2006) Comparative antioxidant activity of tocotrienols and the novel chromanyl-polyisoprenyl molecule FeAox-6 in isolated membranes and intact cells. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 287(1-2): 21-32.

Schroeder MT, Becker EM, Skibsted LH (2006) Molecular mechanism of antioxidant synergism of tocotrienols and carotenoids in palm oil. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 54(9): 3445-53.

Liu ZQ (2006) The "unexpected role" of vitamin E in free radical-induced hemolysis of human erythrocytes: alpha-tocopherol-mediated peroxidation. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics 44(2): 233-9.

    

2005

Ahmad NS, Khalid BA, Luke DA, Ima Nirwana S (2005) Tocotrienol offers better protection than tocopherol from free radical-induced damage of rat bone. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 32(9): 761-70.

Yoshida Y, Itoh N, Hayakawa M, Piga R, Cynshi O, Jishage K, Niki E (2005) Lipid peroxidation induced by carbon tetrachloride and its inhibition by antioxidant as evaluated by an oxidative stress marker, HODE. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 208(1): 87-97.

Yu FL, Gapor A, Bender W (2005) Evidence for the preventive effect of the polyunsaturated phytol side chain in tocotrienols on 17beta-estradiol epoxidation. Cancer Detection and Prevention 29(4): 383-8.

Halliwell B, Rafter J, Jenner A (2005) Health promotion by flavonoids, tocopherols, tocotrienols, and other phenols: direct or indirect effects? Antioxidant or not? American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 81(1 Suppl): 268S-276S.

       

2004

Pfluger P, Kluth D, Landes N, Bumke-Vogt C, Brigelius-Flohe R (2004) Vitamin E: underestimated as an antioxidant. Redox Report 9(5): 249-54.

        

2003

Naguib Y, Hari SP, Passwater R Jr, Huang D (2003)  Antioxidant activities of natural vitamin E formulations. Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (Tokyo) 49(4): 217-20.

Yoshida Y, Niki E, Noguchi N (2003) Comparative study on the action of tocopherols and tocotrienols as antioxidant: chemical and physical effects. Chemistry and Physics of Lipids 123(1): 63-75.

        

2002

Musalmah M, Fairuz AH, Gapor MT, Ngah WZ (2002) Effect of vitamin E on plasma malondialdehyde, antioxidant enzyme levels and the rates of wound closures during wound healing in normal and diabetic rats. Asia Pacific Journal Clinical Nutrition 11 Suppl 7: S448-51.

            

2001

Xu Z, Hua N, Godber JS (2001) Antioxidant activity of tocopherols, tocotrienols, and gamma- oryzanol components from rice bran against cholesterol oxidation accelerated by 2,2'-azobis- (2-methylpropionamidine) dihydrochloride. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 49(4): 2077-81.

Packer L, Weber SU, Rimbach G (2001) Molecular aspects of alpha-tocotrienol antioxidant action and cell signalling. Journal of Nutrition 131(2): 369S-73S.

      

1997

Kamat JP, Sarma HD, Devasagayam TP, Nesaretnam K, Basiron Y (1997) Tocotrienols from palm oil as effective inhibitors of protein oxidation and lipid peroxidation in rat liver microsomes. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 170(1-2): 131-7.

Weber C, Podda M, Rallis M, Thiele JJ, Traber MG, Packer L (1997) Efficacy of topically applied tocopherols and tocotrienols in protection of murine skin from oxidative damage induced by UV-irradiation. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 22(5): 761-9.

      

1995

Kamat JP, Devasagayam TP (1995) Tocotrienols from palm oil as potent inhibitors of lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation in rat brain mitochondria. Neuroscience Letters 195(3): 179-82.

           

1993

Nesaretnam K, Devasagayam TP, Singh BB, Basiron Y (1993) Influence of palm oil or its tocotrienol-rich fraction on the lipid peroxidation potential of rat liver mitochondria and microsomes. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International 30(1): 159-67.

Suarna C, Hood RL, Dean RT, Stocker R (1993) Comparative antioxidant activity of tocotrienols and other natural lipid-soluble antioxidants in a homogeneous system, and in rat and human lipoproteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1166(2-3): 163-70.

             

1992

Packer L (1992) Interactions among antioxidants in health and disease: vitamin E and its redox cycle. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 200(2): 271-6.

               

1976

Lehmann J, Slover HT (1976) Relative autoxidative and photolytic stabilities of tocols and tocotrienols. Lipids 11(12): 853-7.

 

 
   

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