Vitamin E, antioxidant and nothing more.
By M. Traber, J. Atkinson. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 2007
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Subfields: Biochemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics, Organic Chemistry
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- Free radicals, antioxidants and functional foods: Impact on human health (2010, background): “[71] This removes the free radical intermediates and prevents the propagation reaction from continuing.”
- Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Biological Molecules—Mechanisms of Damage and Emerging Methods of Detection (2014, background): “Aiding in this cause are low-molecularweight (MW) endogenous antioxidants such as glutathione (GSH), ascorbate (Vitamin C), melatonin, lipoic acid, ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q10), and Vitamin E, which target water radiolysis products, partially oxidized biomolecules, and peroxynitrite (153, 282, 313, 325”
- Antioxidants and Antioxidant Enzymes in Higher Plants (2018, background): “All tocopherol forms possess antioxidant activity with a-tocopherol being the most efficient (Fukuzawa et al. 1982; Traber and Atkinson 2007). a-tocopherol is synthesized on the inner membrane of plastids and distributed between chloroplast envelope, thylakoid membranes and plastoglobuli (Vidi et…”
- Oxidative stress: an essential factor in the pathogenesis of gastrointestinal mucosal diseases. (2014, background): “Vitamin E (the most biologically active form is -tocopherol) is an important and abundant antioxidant that protects cell membranes from lipid peroxidation (LPO) (289).”
- Vitamins C and E: Beneficial effects from a mechanistic perspective (2011, background): “antioxidant that prevents the propagation of free radicals inmembranes and in plasma lipoproteins [134].”
- Vitamins E and C in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Men: The Physicians’ Health Study II Randomized Trial (2008, result): “However, neither form of vitamin E appears more or less associated with cardiovascular disease, consistent with the observation that both vitamin E sources have similar antioxidant properties.(49) Moreover, PHS II and other prevention trials have used -tocopherol, whereas the tocopherol isomer also ”