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Issue 86
BATES and colleagues, Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge UK, chris,bates@mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk, reported on the Selenium status and associated factors1
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Issue 85
NEUMANN describes the metabolic effects and drug interactions of grapefruit, St John's wort, and garlic .
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Issue 84
BRIGELIUS-FLOHE and colleagues, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany, flohe@dife.de, review (157 references ) the European perspective on vitamin E .
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Issue 84
PLEINER and co-workers, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Vienna, Austria, find that high doses of vitamin C reverse endotoxin-induced hyporeactivity to acetylcholine in the for1
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Issue 83
THOMPSON et al., Department of Dport and Exercise Scicne at the University of Taths, UK, investigated prolonged vitamin C supplementation and recovery from demanding exercise .
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Issue 83
VAN STRATEN and JOSLING, Herbal Health Centre, Battle, East Sussex, UK, conducted a double-blinded, placebo-controlled survey of the preventive effect of a vitamin C supplement on the common cold .
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Issue 82
BECK, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-7220, USA, melinda_beck@unc.edu, reviewed (18 references) the effects of nutritional deficiency on immune1
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Issue 81
Comment: I for one would have been astonished if the dosages prescribed in this study, particularly 250 mg vitamin C, would have produced a significant difference in fatal or non-fatal vascular events for individuals already suffering serious coronary 1
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Issue 81
TSOURELI-NIKITA and colleagues, Institute of Dermosciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, tlotti@unifi.it, examined the effects of vitamin E supplementation on sym1
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Issue 81
THE MRC/BHF HEART PROTECTION STUDY COLLABORATIVE GROUP investigated possible long-term (5-year) effects of daily antioxidant vitamin supplementation on adults with cardiovascular disease or di1
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Issue 80
MUNOZ and colleagues, Center for Dental Research, Loma Linda University, School of Dentistry, Loma Linda, California, USA, investigated the effects of dietary supplementation with particular nutrients on gingivitis
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Issue 80
MORCOS and CAMILO, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA, investigated possible toxic effects of long-term dietary intake of a
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Issue 80
RUHE and MCDONALD, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis 95616-8669, USA, reviewed (44 references) literature on the frequency, causal factors and treatment, including the possible role of dietary anti1
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Issue 79
VAN HOYDONCK and colleagues, Department of Public Health, Division of Nutritional Epidemiology, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, Pascale.vanhoydonck@med.kuleuven.ac.be, inve1
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Issue 79
WAGNER and colleagues, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, karl-heinz.wagner@univie.ac.at, investigated the effects of dietary supplementation with oil rich in
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Issue 77
SCHUENEMANN and colleagues, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York, 207 Farber Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214-3000, USA, HJS@buffalo.edu, s1
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Issue 76
MESSERER and colleagues, Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Maria.Messerer@mep.ki.se, investigated what subgroups of Swedish adults used1
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Issue 76
HERRERA and BARBAS, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnicas, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain, eherrera@ceu.es, reviewed (91 references) the actions, biochemistry and metabol1
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Issue 76
PANDA and colleagues, Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University College of Science, 700019, Calcutta, India, panda@ccf.org, analysed the stable oxidant components of cigarette smoke tha1
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Issue 75
NIETO and colleagues, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain, investigated whether consumption of monounsaturated (MUFAs) and/or polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) of the1