Perceiving the functions of vitamin E through neutron and X-ray scattering.
Adv Colloid Interface Sci
; 330: 103189, 2024 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Take your vitamins, or don't? Vitamin E is one of the few lipophilic vitamins in the human diet and is considered an essential nutrient. Over the years it has proven to be a powerful antioxidant and is commercially used as such, but this association is far from linear in physiology. It is increasingly more likely that vitamin E has multiple legitimate biological roles. Here, we review past and current work using neutron and X-ray scattering to elucidate the influence of vitamin E on key features of model membranes that can translate to the biological function(s) of vitamin E. Although progress is being made, the hundred year-old mystery remains unsolved.
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Vitamina E
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Difração de Nêutrons
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2024
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