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research updates: antioxidants

Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.

Issue 123

CUI and colleagues, Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University, Bundang Hospital, 300 Gumi-Dong, Bundang-Gu, Seongnam-Si, Kyoungki-Do 463-707, Republic of Korea, have described the antioxidant effect of the mushroom, Inonotus obliquus.... more

Issue 120

KEITHAHN and LERCHL, School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany, have found that 5-hydroxytryptophan is potentially a more potent antioxidant than melatonin or vitamin C.... more

Issue 117

FAYOL and others, Departement de Neonatologie, Assistance Publique, Hopitaux de Marseille-Hopital de La Timone, 264, rue Saint-Pierre, FR-13005 Marseille, France, have investigated the antioxidant status of infants exposed to smoke in the womb.... more

Issue 106

AGUILA and co-workers, Community Nutrition and Oxidative Stress Research Group at the University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, report that antioxidant diet supplements influence blood iron status in endurance athletics.... more

Issue 99

PALAZZETTI and others, Laboratoire Physiologie des Adaptations, Performance Motrice et Sante, Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France, have found that antioxidant supplementation preserves the antioxidant response during times of physical training and... more

Issue 86

AGUILERA and co-workers, Servicio de Nefrologia, Hospitales Universitarios La Paz, Spain, describe true deficiency of vitamins E and A in dialysis patients and its relationship with clinical patterns of atherosclerosis .... more

Issue 86 cont'd

GOLLNICK and SIEBENWIRTH, University Clinic of Dermatology and Venereology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany, harald.gollnick@medizin.uni-magdeburg.de, have found that beta-carotene plasma levels and content in the oral mucosal epithelium i... more

SHOR-POSNER and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, USA, review (53 references ) neuroprotection in HIV-positive drug users and its implication for antioxidant therapy. Impaired protection of nerve cells r... more

ZHANG et al., Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, Shumin.Zhang@channing.harvard.edu, study the intakes of vitamins E and C, carotenoids, vitamin supplements, and the risk of Parkinson's di... more

Issue 65

ASTLEY and colleagues, Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK investigated the effect of daily vitamin E supplementation on the susceptibility of plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and lymphocyte DNA to oxidative damage in type 1 diabetes .... more

FERRANDEZ and colleagues, Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain studied, in vitro, the changes in the effects of several antioxidants on natural killer (NK) cell activity that occur with ag... more

MOLINA ARJONA and colleagues, Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain investigated the possible relationship of several serum pro-oxidant and antioxidant substances to the risk for Parkinson's disease .... more

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