Tocotrienols and Atherosclerosis

Vitamin E: Tocotrienols The Science Behind Tocotrienols

Tocotrienols: inflammation and cancer.

Inflammation is an organism's response to environmental assaults. It can be classified as acute inflammation that leads to therapeutic recovery or chronic inflammation, which may lead to the development of cancer and other ailments. Genetic changes that occur within cancer cells themselves are responsible for many aspects of cancer development but are dependent on ancillary processes for tumor ...

Tocopherols and tocotrienols as vitamin E

Introduction Vitamins are chemical compounds which are components of coenzymes and non-protein ingredients of enzymes. They are essential for life and normal functioning of the body. Vitamins are supplied with food as they cannot be synthesised by the body [1]. Bad diet, impaired vitamin absorption or the use of substances such as caffeine, nicotine and medicines may lead to hypovitaminosis, th...

Protection by tocotrienols against hypercholesterolaemia and atheroma.

Antioxidants such as tocotrienols may protect against atherosclerosis since tissue injury from free radicals is a final common pathway of damage in arterial disease. In this study, the effects of tocotrienols on serum cholesterol, lipid peroxides, and aorta atheroma were assessed in rabbits fed an atherogenic diet for 12 weeks. Tocotrienols were more effective than tocopherols in preventing inc...

TITLE : Tocotrienols and Prostate Cancer PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

s and Presentations: Abdel-Rahman F., Whaley S., Youngberg G., Stone W., Krishnan K., Prostaglandin E Synthase is over-expressed by immunohistochemistry in neoplastic and pre-neoplastic colonic disorders. Poster presentation, 2002 National Medical Oncology Fellows’ Forum, Wigwam Resort, Litchfield Field Park, Arizona, February 28-March 3, 2002.