Vitamin E
"Vitamin E" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A generic descriptor for all TOCOPHEROLS and TOCOTRIENOLS that exhibit ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL activity. By virtue of the phenolic hydrogen on the 2H-1-benzopyran-6-ol nucleus, these compounds exhibit varying degree of antioxidant activity, depending on the site and number of methyl groups and the type of ISOPRENOIDS.
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D014810
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.663.283.909 D03.438.150.909
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1989 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin E" by people in Profiles.
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Penn JS, Thum LA, Naash MI. Oxygen-induced retinopathy in the rat. Vitamins C and E as potential therapies. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1992 May; 33(6):1836-45.
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Serbinova EA, Kadiiska MB, Bakalova RA, Koynova GM, Stoyanovsky DA, Karakashev PC, Stoytchev TS, Wolinsky I, Kagan VE. Lipid peroxidation activation and cytochrome P-450 decrease in rat liver endoplasmic reticulum under oxidative stress. Toxicol Lett. 1989 May; 47(2):119-23.
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Kagan VE, Bakalova RA, Rangelova DS, Stoyanovsky DA, Koynova GM, Wolinsky I. Oxidative stress leads to inhibition of calcium transport by sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med. 1989 Apr; 190(4):365-8.
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Nielsen JC, Naash MI, Anderson RE. The regional distribution of vitamins E and C in mature and premature human retinas. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1988 Jan; 29(1):22-6.