gamma-Tocopherol
"gamma-Tocopherol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A natural tocopherol with less antioxidant activity than ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL. It exhibits antioxidant activity by virtue of the phenolic hydrogen on the 2H-1-benzopyran-6-ol nucleus. As in BETA-TOCOPHEROL, it also has three methyl groups on the 6-chromanol nucleus but at different sites.
| Descriptor ID |
D024504
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.438.150.909.750.500 D03.830.219.909.750.500
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| Concept/Terms |
gamma-Tocopherol- gamma-Tocopherol
- 3,4-Dihydro-2,7,8-trimethyl-2-(4,8,12-trimethyltridecyl)-2H-1-benzopyran-6-ol
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| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "gamma-Tocopherol" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Abraham A, Kattoor AJ, Saldeen T, Mehta JL. Vitamin E and its anticancer effects. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2019; 59(17):2831-2838.