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Vitamin E

"Vitamin E" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A generic descriptor for all TOCOPHEROLS and TOCOTRIENOLS that exhibit ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL activity. By virtue of the phenolic hydrogen on the 2H-1-benzopyran-6-ol nucleus, these compounds exhibit varying degree of antioxidant activity, depending on the site and number of methyl groups and the type of ISOPRENOIDS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vitamin E" by people in this website by year, and whether "Vitamin E" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1998 and 2002 and 2011
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