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Familial vitamin E deficiency: Multiorgan complications support the adverse role of oxidative stress

Authors :
Gabriella Fugazzotto
Sara Montagnese
E. Trotta
Cinzia Gellera
Piero Amodio
Stefano Bortolotti
Source :
Nutrition. :57-60
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2019.

Abstract

Vitamin E is an essential micronutrient with relevant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties found in plant leaves, seeds, and products derived from their processing. Familial vitamin E deficiency is a rare inherited syndrome characterized by ataxia and peripheral neuropathy with a massive decrease in plasma vitamin E (

Details

ISSN :
08999007
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nutrition
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....a1113b4b6dab4b85f6a14f29e952c079
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2018.11.012