Vitamin E in health and disease / edición, Lester Packer, Jürgen Fuchs.

Probes developments and trends in research and clinical applications of vitamin E, discussing its chemistry and biochemistry and natural occurrence in nuts, seeds, whole grains and vegetable and fish-liver oils. This book covers findings on the role of vitamin E as a biological response modifier.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

NATURAL OCCURRENCE AND TISSUE LEVELS.--
Plants.--
Natural Sources of Tocotrienols, Augustine S. H. Ong.--
Analysis and Distribution of Vitamin E in Vegetable Oils and Foods, Alan J. Sheppard, John L. Weihrauch, and Jean A.T. Pennington.--
Animals and Humans.--
Absorption, Transport and Delivery to Tissues, Maret G. Traber, William Cohn, and David P. R. Muller.--
Interrelationships of Vitamin E with Other Nutrients, Harold H. Draper.--
Effects of ss-Carotene and Related Caritenoids on Vitamin E, Shirley R. Blakely, Geraldine V. Mitchell, Mamie Leah Young Jenkins, and Erich Grundel.--

CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND CELL BIOLOGY.--
Chemical Reactions, Antioxidant Action, and Biomembranes.--
Pulse Radioysis as a Tool in Vitamin E Research, Wolf Bors, Manfred Saran, and Christs Michel.--
Peroxyl Radical Trapping Reactions of Alpha-Tocopherol in Biomimetic Systems, Daniel C. Liebler.--
Synthesis and Kinetic Study of Antioxidant and Prooxidant Actions of Vitamin E Derivatives, Kazou Mukai.--
Rates and Products of Reactions of Vitamin E with Oxygen Radicals, Etsuo Niki and Mitsuyoshi Matsuo.--
Relative Importance of Vitamin E in Antiperoxidative Defenses in Human Blood Plasma and Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL), Balz B. Frei and Bruce N. Ames.--
Scavenging of Singlet Molecular Oxygen by Tocopherols, Helmut Sies, Stephan Kaiser, Paulo Di Mascio, and Michael E. Murphy.--
Relationship Between Vitamin E and a More Electronegatively Charged LDL of Human Plasma, Gabriele Bittolo-Bon, Giuseppe Cazzolato, and Pietro Avogaro.--
The Role of Vitamin E in Blood and Cellular Aging, Shiro Urano.--
Pharmacology.--
Biokinetics of Vitamin E Using Deuterated Tocopherols, Graham W. Burton and Keith U. Ingold.--
Vitamin E Status of Exotic Animals Compared with Livestock and Domestics, Ellen S. Dierenfeld and Maret G. Traber.--
Alpha-Tocopherol and Protein Kinase C Regulation of Intracellular Signaling, Angelo Manfredo Azzi, Gianna Bartoli, Daniel Boscoboinik, Carmel Hensey, and Adam Szewczyk.--
Vitamin E Action in Modulating the Arachidonic Acid Cascade, David G. Cornwell and Rao V. Panganamala.--
The Safety of Oral Intake of Vitamin E: Data from Clinical Studies from 1986 to 1991, Adrianne Bendich and Lawrence J. Machlin.--
Reduction in the Toxicity of Doxorubicin (Adriamycin) in the Heart by Vitamin E, Jose Milei and Susana Llesuy.--

PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND VITAMIN E.--
Metabolism and Aging.--
Vitamin E and the Aging Process, Abraham Z. Reznick, Bruce Rappaport, Sharon V. Landvik, Irene Simon-Schnass, and Lester Packer.--
Vitamin E and High-Altitude Exercise, Irene Simon-Schnass.--
Significance of Vitamin E for the Athlete, Lester Packer, Abraham Z. Reznick, Irene Simon-Schnass, and Sharon V. Landvik.--
Plasma Alpha-Tocopherol and Ubiquinone and Their Relations to Muscle Function in Healthy Humans and in Cardiac Diseases, Jan Karlsson, Bertil Diamant, Henning Theorell, Kurt Johansen, and Karl Folkers.--
Cancer.--
Effects of Vitamin E on Oral Carcinogenesis and Oral Cancer, Gerald Shklar and Joel L. Schwartz.--
Epidemiology of Vitamin E: Evidence for Anticancer Effects in Humans, Paul Knekt.--
Antitumor Activity of Tocotrienols, Kanki Komiyama and Masakazu Yamaoka.--
Impact of Palm Oil on Experimental Carcinogenesis, Charles E. Elson.--
Immunity and Disease Resistance.--
Vitamin E and Immune Response, Simin Nikbin Meydani and Robert P. Tengerdy.-- ...

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS.--
Dermatology.--
Vitamin E in Dermatological Therapy, Jurgen Fuchs and Lester Packer.--
Vitamin E and Coenzyme Q10 in Normal Human Skin and in Basal Cell Epitheliomas, Luigi Rusciani, Giuseppina Petrelli, and Silvio Lippa.--
Vitamin E in Skin: Antioxidant and Prooxidant Balance, Eric Witt, Valerian E. Kagan, and Lester Packer.--
Neurology.--
Vitamin E and Parkinson's Disease, Lawrence I. Golbe and J. William Langston.--
Vitamin E Therapy in Neurological Diseases, Tuomas Westermarck, Erkki Antila, and Faik Atroshi.--
Effects of Palm Oil Vitamin E on Atherogenesis, Erkki Antila, Faik Atroshi, and Tuomas Westermarck.--
Vitamin E Deficiency and Neurological Disorders, Ronald J. Sokol.--
Effects of Vitamin E and Its Derivative on Posttraumatic Epilepsy and Seizures, Akitane Mori, Isao Yokoi, and Hideaki Kabuto.--
Pediatrics.--
Vitamin E in the Newborn, Sunil Sinha and Malcolm Chiswick.-- ...

FUTURE PERSPECTIVES.

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