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[Alternative nutrition and glutathione levels]
Background: Low protein quality and quantity is reported to be a possible risk of alternative nutrition. Pulses contain 18-41% of...
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Vegetarianism produces subclinical malnutrition, hyperhomocysteinemia and atherogenesis
Objective: To explain why vegetarian subjects develop morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases unrelated to vitamin B status and Framingham...
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A Review of Dietary (Phyto)Nutrients for Glutathione Support
Glutathione is a tripeptide that plays a pivotal role in critical physiological processes resulting in effects relevant to diverse disease...
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Multiple Nutritional Factors and the Risk of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
Background: Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) is considered to be the most common autoimmune disease. It is currently accepted that genetic susceptibility,...
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Oxidative stress and regulation of glutathione in lung inflammation
Inflammatory lung diseases are characterized by chronic inflammation and oxidant/antioxidant imbalance, a major cause of cell damage. The development of...
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Red blood cells as a physiological source of glutathione for extracellular fluids
Plasma low molecular mass thiols are represented by glutathione, cysteine, cysteinylglycine and homocysteine. The physiological mechanisms responsible for maintaining the...
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Oxidative stress in prostate hyperplasia and carcinogenesis
Prostatic hyperplasia (PH) is a common urologic disease that affects mostly elderly men. PH can be classified as benign prostatic...
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Mitochondrial Glutathione: Recent Insights and Role in Disease
Mitochondria are the main source of reactive oxygen species (ROS), most of them deriving from the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Among...
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Mitochondrial glutathione: features, regulation and role in disease
Background: Mitochondria are the powerhouse of mammalian cells and the main source of reactive oxygen species (ROS) associated with oxygen...
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