AOCS Press. (Book Corner).AOCS AOCS American Oil Chemists Society AOCS Aviation Officer Candidate School (US Navy) AOCS Australian Ovarian Cancer Study AOCS Attitude and Orbital Control System AOCS Academy of Clinician Scholars Press, Champaign, IL, has released a new health and nutrition book titled, The Antioxidant Vitamins antioxidant vitamin Nutrition Any vitamin–eg, beta carotene–provitamin A, ascorbic acid–vitamin C, and alpha-tocopherol–vitamin E with antioxidant activity. See Antioxidant, Antixoxidant therapy. C and E. The first part of the book provides a historical background of vitamins C and E and summarizes important discoveries concerning their biological functions and their roles in prevention of dietary deficiency, chronic disease and oxidative stress oxidative stress, n an imbalance of the prooxidant antioxidant ratio in which too few antioxidants are produced or ingested or too many oxidizing agents are produced. . Other chapters detail current research on the biological actions of vitamins C and E in biochemical, cell and physiological systems and their roles in oxidative ox·i·da·tive adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by oxidation. oxidative, adj having the ability or property to oxidize. oxidative pertaining to or emanating from oxidation. stress-related diseases and disorders. |
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