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Example sentences for: antioxidant
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This may reflect the combined contributions of intracellular antioxidants with the exogenous antioxidant.
Evidence suggests that alcohol may increase oxidative burden [ 12 13 14 15 ] . However, while alcohol could potentially act as an oxidant, there is a large body of evidence that wine has antioxidant properties [ 12 13 16 17 ] . Our data indicate that these antioxidant properties might exist and could have positive influence on lung function.
However, these antioxidants may be less effective against a lipid peroxide generating system, and under those conditions an antioxidant like vitamin E may be more effective.
Overexpression of the antioxidant enzyme peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase is also associated with increased life span [ 26].
The observed antitumor activity of this sE dietary supplementation was an unexpected experimental result as sE was not previously reported to have antitumor activity although vitamin E may give modest protection against the risk of breast cancer [ 5 ] . Based on the observed antitumor activity of high dose sE in the diet, it became important to investigate if the sE supplement, when fed at such a high dose, was associated with the modification of the fatty acid composition of mitochondrial and microsomal membranes and if the sE was acting as an antioxidant or possibly a prooxidant in tumor and in host tissues.