Title Antioxidants in human health and disease / edited by Tapan K. Basu, Norman J. Temple, Manohar L. Garg

Published New York : CABI Pub., [1999] ©1999

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Description xx, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- SECTION 1 Antioxidatns and Their Mechanisms of Action -- 1. Nutritional Antioxidants and Disease Prevention: Mechanisms of Action, Dennis V. Parke -- 2. Potential Role of Antioxidant Vitamins, Tapan K. Basu -- 3. Immunological Role of Antioxidant Vitamins, Adrianne Bendich -- 4. The Effect of Antioxidants on the Production of Lipid Oxidation Products and Transfer of Free Radicals in Oxidized Lipid-Protein Systems, Nazlin K. Howell and Suhur Saeed -- 5. Regulation of the Low-density Lipoprotein Receptor by Antioxidants, Sebely Pal, Christina Bursill, Cynthia D.K. Bottema and Paul D. Roach -- 6. Carotenoid and Lipid/Lipoprotein Correlates of the Susceptibility of Low-density Lipoprotein to Oxidation in Humans, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Thomas A. Hughes, John Belcher and Myron Gross -- 7. Antioxidation and Evolution: Dietary Restriction and Alterations in Molecular Processes, Angelo Turturro, Peter H. Duffy and Ronald W. Hart -- SECTION 2 Food Factors as Antioxidants -- 8. Evaluation of the Contribution of Flavanols and Caffeine to the Anticarcinogenic Potential of Tea, Costas Ioannides -- 9. Antioxidant Effects of Plant Phenolic Compounds, Kevin D. Croft -- 10. Antioxidant Effects of Soybean Isoflavones, Gaoli Zheng and Shoumin Zhu -- 11. Action of Gingko biloba as an Antioxidant, Noriko Noguchi, Kimihiro Nishino, Eiichi Washio, Honglian Shi and Etsuo Niki -- 12. Whole Foods, Antioxidants and Health -- SECTION 3 Coronary Heart Disease -- 13. Antioxidants and Their Role in Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, David Kritchevsky and Stephen B. Kritchevsky -- 14. Effect of Antioxidants on Atherogenesis, Fred A. Kummerow, Mohamedain M. Mahfouz and Qi Zhou -- n 15 Flavonoids and Other Phytochemicals in Relation to Coronary Artery Disease, Samir Samman, Philippa M. Lyons Wall, and Efi Farmakalidis -- 16. Antioxidant Vitamins and Coenzyme Q10 in the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease and Diabetes, Ram B. Singh, Shanti S. Rastogi, Mahmood Moshiri and Hemmy N. Bhagvan -- 17. Fruit, Vegetables, and Antioxidants: Their Role in the Prevention of Cardiovascular and Other Diseases, Jayne V. Woodside, Ian S. Young and John W.G. Yarnell -- SECTION 4 Malignant Disease -- 18. Antioxidants and the Prevention of Cancer, Peter Greenwald and Sharon S. McDonald -- 19. The Role of B-Carotene and Vitamin E in the Treatment of early Gastric Premalignant Lesions: Biochemical and Clinical Aspects, Yuriy V. Bukin and Vladimir A. Draudin-Krylenko -- SECTION 5 Other Diseases -- 20. Oxidative Stress, Vitamin E. and Diabetes, Sushil K. Jain -- 21. An Investigation of in Vivo Antioxidant Status and DNA Damage in Patients with IDDM, Mary Hannon-Fletcher, Ciara Hughes, Maurice J. O'Kane, Kenneth W. Moles, Christopher R. Barnett and Yvonne A. Barnett -- 22. Nutrition and the Risk for Cataract, Allen Taylor, Paul Jacques and Esther Epstein -- 23. Reactive Oxygen Species and Age-related Macular Degeneration, Ravindra Nath, Amod Gupta, Rajendra Prasad, Surinder S. Pandav and Rajinder Kumar -- 24. Antioxidants and Respiratory Disease, Ian S. Young, Heather E. Roxborough and Jayne V. Woodside -- 25. Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants in Cystic Fibrosis, Lisa Wood, Clare Collins and Manohar Garg -- 26. The Influence of Antioxidants on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly, Walter J. Perrig, Pasqualina Perrig and Hannes B. Stahelin -- 27. Schizophrenia: Role of Oxidative Stress and Essential Fatty Acids, Ravinder Reddy and Jeffrey K. Yao -- 28. B-Amyloid and Oxidative Stress in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease, Ralph N. Martins, Chin Wern Chan, Emma Waddington, Gerald Veurink, Simon Laws, Kevin Croft and A.M. Dharmarajan -- SECTION 6 Indicators of Oxidative Stress -- 29. Isoprostanes: Indicators of Oxidative Stress in Vivo and Their Biological Activity, P. Quaggiotto and Manohar L. Garg -- 30. Indicators of Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants and Human Health, Maria Dusinska, Jan Lietava, Begona Olmedilla, Katarina Raslova, Susan Southon and Andrew R. Collins -- SECTION 7 Consumer Issues -- 31. Consumer Issues in Relation to Antioxidants, Efi Farmakalidis -- Index Notes Based on the 6th World Congress on Clinical Nutrition (WCCN) on "Antioxidants and Disease", held in Banff, Canada on 23-26 July 1997. - Preface Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Antioxidants -- Physiological effect -- Congresses. Active oxygen in the body -- Congresses. Oxidation, Physiological -- Congresses. Free radicals (Chemistry) -- Pathophysiology -- Congresses. Antioxidants -- Physiological effect. Active oxygen in the body. Oxidation, Physiological. Free radicals (Chemistry) -- Pathophysiology. Antioxidants -- therapeutic use. Antioxidants -- adverse effects. Antioxidants -- metabolism. Antioxidants -- metabolism. Basu, Tapan Kumar Antioxidants -- adverse effects. Antioxidants -- therapeutic use. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Basu, Tapan Kumar. Temple, Norman J. Garg, Manohar L. World Congress on Clinical Nutrition (6th : 1997 : Banff, Canada) LC no. 98033114 ISBN 0851993346 alkaline paper

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