Year: 2009
Type: book-review
Abstract: The broad spectrum of the impacts of vitamins in chemoprcvention is discussed comprehensively.The book is divided into sections: basic experimental approaches, describing antioxydants and their interference with free radicals, membrane effects, etc.Other sections arc devoted to prcclinical chcmoprcvcntion, nutritional factors, and, in a methodological chapter, chcmoprcvcntion in man is covered, considering in a more general way 'design and compliance considerations, dietary intervention trials'.There is a further chap ter on prevention trials, presently of high interest, and, eventually, one on treatment, dealing with the role of vitamins C, B(>, and retinoids.I hc extraordinarily large literature available on these issues is comprehensively presented.Generally spoken, this volume presents a remarkable contribu tion to this rapidly developing and highly topical problem.H. Wrba, Vienna
Source: Oncology
DOI: 10.1159/000226410
Authors: W. Shiu, S.K. ‘O’, S.Y. Tsao, K.S. Woo, C. Martin, George Pairas, Punayotis Catsoulacos, Athanassios Papageorgiou, Lazaros Boutis, Moshe Sonnenblick, Mordechai R. Kramer, Chaim Hershko, P.M. Carli, C. Milan, J.L. Lorenzini, H. Guy, R. Michiels, M. De Braekeleer, Eduardo Luevano, Martha Tena, Alejandra Zamora, Julio Sotelo, Laura Possati, Amerigo Collesi, Carlo Rosciani, Corrado Rubini, Jose M. Feola, Yosh Maruyama, Jose M. Feola, Yosh Maruyama, Angela Alama, Pier Franco Conte, Eddi Di Marco, Roberto E. Favoni, Angelo Nicolin, Catherine Athanasiou, George Pairas, Panayotis Catsoulacos, Kyriacos Athanasiou
Language: English
Subfield: Biochemistry (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4245126712