Sunday, October 9, 2011

Vitamin C, E and Tobacco Smoke

Posted by Chantel M. Contributed by US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health

According to the study of "In Vitro Assessment of Tobacco Smoke Toxicity at the BBB: Do Antioxidant Supplements Have a Protective Role?" by Hossain M, Mazzone P, Tierney W, Cucullo. L., posted in US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, researchers concluded that Pre-treatment with antioxidant vitamins (C and/or E) effectively reduced the pro-inflammatory activity associated with TS, protecting the viability and functions of the BBB. CONCLUSION: Our results have shown that loss of endothelial viability as well as BBB function and integrity caused by TS exposure can be prevented or at least reduced by normal physiologic concentrations of antioxidant vitamins in vitro.

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