title: Vitamin E serum levels and gastric cancer: results from a cohort of patients in Tuscany, Italy.
abstract: Alpha-tocopherol has been reported to play an important role against oxidative damage and in the inhibition of cell transforming and mutagenesis. We analysed vitamin E serum levels in 51 cases of patients affected by gastric cancer at different stages of the disease, and in 49 age-matched controls. All patients had normal values of alpha-tocopherol. However, when patients have been grouped according to histotype of gastric lesions, a significant vitamin E increase has been found in diffuse gastric cancer histotype compared to the intestinal histotype. Our results suggest that a correlation between vitamin E serum levels and gastric cancer histotype should be considered.
authors.affiliation: OU of Neurometabolic Disease, Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Battisti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Formichi
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Tripodi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vindigni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Roviello
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Federico
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000097:blood* / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014810:Vitamin E / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D014810:Vitamin E; D002784:Cholesterol