"Vitamin E" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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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D014810
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.663.283.909 D03.633.100.150.909
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin E" by people in Profiles.
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Vitamin E, memantine, and Alzheimer disease. JAMA. 2014 Jan 01; 311(1):29-30.
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Fragile X syndrome and targeted treatment trials. Results Probl Cell Differ. 2012; 54:297-335.
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A potential design flaw of randomized trials of vitamin supplements. JAMA. 2011 Apr 06; 305(13):1348-9.
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Relation of the tocopherol forms to incident Alzheimer disease and to cognitive change. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 Feb; 81(2):508-14.
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Vitamin E and cognitive decline in older persons. Arch Neurol. 2002 Jul; 59(7):1125-32.
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Dietary intake of antioxidant nutrients and the risk of incident Alzheimer disease in a biracial community study. JAMA. 2002 Jun 26; 287(24):3230-7.
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Relationship of plasma alpha tocopherol to index of clinical severity in individuals with sickle cell anemia. Am J Hematol. 1992 Dec; 41(4):227-31.
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Vitamin E status of young women on combined-type oral contraceptives. Contraception. 1978 Jun; 17(6):499-512.