title: Vitamin E and antioxidant activity.
abstract: Forty years after its discovery, vitamin E remains a biochemical Don Basilio, not to be trusted or believed but impossible to dismiss. It is a powerful antioxidant in vitro, in many animals and probably in the newborn. To assess its physiological role and possible therapeutic usefulness in the human adult we need to know more about the mechanisms which normally protect from autoxidative damage.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000975:Antioxidants / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014811:Vitamin E Deficiency / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D000975:Antioxidants; D014810:Vitamin E