Antonio Di Sario,Cinzia Candelaresi,Alessia Omenetti et al.
Antonio Di Sario et al.
Liver fibrosis may be considered as a dynamic and integrated cellular response to chronic liver injury. The activation of hepatic stellate cells and the consequent deposition of large amounts of extracellular matrix play a major role in the...
U Singh,S Devaraj
U Singh
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world with its incidence increasing lately in developing countries. Several lines of evidence support a role for inflammation in atherogenesis. Henc...
Jing Ni,Shuyuan Yeh
Jing Ni
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the third leading fatal cancer in American men. Comprehensive studies from human epidemiological studies, animal tumor models, and cellular molecular levels suggested that alp...
Marco Tomasetti,Jiri Neuzil
Marco Tomasetti
Chemotherapeutic drugs induce both proliferation arrest and apoptosis; however, some cancer cells escape drug toxicity and become resistant. The suppression of the immune system by chemotherapeutic agents and radiation promotes the developm...
Vitamin E and cancer [0.03%]
维生素E和癌症
Kimberly Kline,Karla A Lawson,Weiping Yu et al.
Kimberly Kline et al.
Perhaps not surprisingly, vitamin E which has been touted to be potentially beneficial for a variety of disorders, including cancer, heart disease, and even Alzheimer's disorder, based on its function as an antioxidant has failed to withsta...
Samarjit Das,Kalanithi Nesaretnam,Dipak K Das
Samarjit Das
Tocotrienols, a group of Vitamin E stereoisomers, offer many health benefits including their ability to lower cholesterol levels, and provide anticancer and tumor-suppressive activities. Several recent studies determined the cardioprotectiv...
Vitamin E and mast cells [0.03%]
维生素E与肥大细胞
Jean-Marc Zingg
Jean-Marc Zingg
Mast cells play an important role in the immune system by interacting with B and T cells and by releasing several mediators involved in activating other cells. Hyperreactivity of mast cells and their uncontrolled accumulation in tissues lea...
Sergi Munné-Bosch
Sergi Munné-Bosch
alpha-Tocopherol, which belongs to the vitamin E group of compounds, is a lipophilic antioxidant that has a number of functions in plants. Synthesized from homogentisic acid and isopentenyl diphosphate in the chloroplast envelope, alpha-toc...
Cathy Debier
Cathy Debier
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble nutrient that is extremely important during the early stages of life, from the time of conception to the postnatal development of the infant. The mechanisms involved in its placental and mammary uptake appear to b...
Vitamin E and apoptosis [0.03%]
维生素E和细胞凋亡
Paul W Sylvester
Paul W Sylvester
Vitamin E is a generic term that refers to a family of compounds that is further divided into two subgroups called tocopherols and tocotrienols. All natural forms of tocopherols and tocotrienols are potent antioxidants that regulate peroxid...