Role of Antioxidants in the Maintenance of Immune Functions

β-Carotene: an Unusual Type of Lipid Antioxidant

1984 • 2,147 citations

Free-radical chemistry of cigarette smoke and its toxicological implications.

1985 • 1,351 citations

Free radical tissue damage: protective role of antioxidant nutrients ¹

1987 • 1,210 citations

Antioxidant activity of carnosine, homocarnosine, and anserine present in muscle and brain.

1988 • 765 citations

Vitamin E supplementation enhances cell-mediated immunity in healthy elderly subjects

1990 • 581 citations

Effects of exercise, vitamin E, and ozone on pulmonary function and lipid peroxidation

1978 • 559 citations

RETRACTED: Effect of vitamin and trace-element supplementation on immune responses and infection in elderly subjects

1992 • 529 citations

Textbook of Rheumatology.

1985 • 518 citations

Vegetables, fruits, and carotenoids and the risk of cancer

1991 • 472 citations

Spontaneous oxygen radical generation by sickle erythrocytes.

1982 • 443 citations

Immune and inflammatory function in cigarette smokers.

1987 • 373 citations

Antioxidant Defense Mechanisms in Murine Epidermis and Dermis and Their Responses to Ultraviolet Light

1993 • 360 citations

The Data Support a Role for Antioxidants in Reducing Cancer Risk

2009 • 330 citations

Cell-Mediated Immunity as a Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality in Subjects Over 60

1990 • 304 citations

Vitamin C supplementation reduces the incidence of postrace symptoms of upper-respiratory-tract infection in ultramarathon runners

1993 • 280 citations

Oxidants, inflammation, and anti‐inflammatory drugs

1988 • 267 citations

Autooxidation as a basis for altered function by polymorphonuclear leukocytes

1977 • 237 citations

Fatty Acids and Immunity

1978 • 230 citations

Pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

1986 • 205 citations

Encyclopedia of immunology

1992 • 183 citations

A prospective study of dietary intake and acquired immune deficiency syndrome in HIV-seropositive homosexual men.

1993 • 183 citations

Deficiency of vitamin E in the alveolar fluid of cigarette smokers. Influence on alveolar macrophage cytotoxicity.

1986 • 182 citations

Abnormal T-cell subset proportions in vitamin-A-deficient children

1993 • 182 citations

Effects of cigarette smoking on the immune system: Follow‐up studies in normal subjects after cessation of smoking

1983 • 177 citations

Oxygen radicals in chemistry and biology

1985 • 149 citations

Specific Inhibitory Action of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on Lymphocyte Transformation Induced by PHA and PPD

1975 • 148 citations

Immunocompetence and oxidant defense during ascorbate depletion of healthy men

1991 • 144 citations

The Effect of Dietary Supplementation with Vitamins A, C and E on Cell-mediated Immune Function in Elderly Long-stay Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

1991 • 143 citations

Effect of β -carotene supplementation on photosuppression of delayed-type hypersensitivity in normal young men

1992 • 138 citations

Protective factors against oxygen free radicals and hydrogen peroxide in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fluid

1984 • 129 citations

Oxidation as a possible mechanism of cellular aging: vitamin E deficiency causes premature aging and IgG binding to erythrocytes.

1986 • 129 citations

Effect of Vitamin C Supplements on Cell-Mediated Immunity in Old People

1983 • 129 citations

Micronutrient Status and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection

1990 • 128 citations

Micronutrients in health and in disease prevention

1991 • 127 citations

The role of lipids in the regulation of the immune system

1983 • 124 citations

Influence of polyunsaturated fatty acids on survival of skin allografts and tumor incidence in mice.

1976 • 117 citations

Antioxidants Inhibit Stimulation of HIV Transcription

1993 • 114 citations

Activated polymorphonuclear leucocytes consume vitamin C

1984 • 104 citations

Breath Pentane Excretion as a Marker of Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

1988 • 103 citations

Fish Oil and Tocopherol-Induced Changes in Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity and PGE2 Synthesis in Young and Old Mice

1988 • 103 citations

Oxygen Free Radicals as Pathogenic Molecules in Viral Diseases

1991 • 102 citations

Vitamin E Suppresses Increased Lipid Peroxidation in Cigarette Smokers

1990 • 100 citations

Antiarthritic Gold Compounds Effectively Quench Electronically Excited Singlet Oxygen

1987 • 98 citations

Phagocyte Function in the Neonate: Selected Aspects

1979 • 95 citations

Dietary lipid modulation of immune responsiveness

1983 • 92 citations

Abnormal Phagocyte Chemotaxis: Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Management of Patients

1981 • 92 citations

Influence of Dietary Fat Concentration and Saturation on Immune Ontogeny in Mice

1980 • 85 citations

Beta-carotene in HIV infection.

1993 • 83 citations

Ultraviolet light-induced reductions in plasma carotenoid levels

1988 • 73 citations

Vitamin C and Cellular Immune Functions

1990 • 72 citations

Oxygen Radicals: Systemic Events and Disease Processes

1991 • 69 citations

Beta-carotene supplementation in smokers reduces the frequency of micronuclei in sputum

1992 • 68 citations

Increased vitamin E intake restores fish-oil-induced suppressed blastogenesis of mitogen-stimulated T lymphocytes

1991 • 65 citations

Low Selenium Level in Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis

1985 • 64 citations

Effect of β-carotene on immunological indexes in healthy male smokers

1993 • 64 citations

Effect of ascorbate on abnormal neutrophil, platelet and lymphocytic function in a patient with the Chediak-Higashi syndrome

1981 • 64 citations

Investigation of the protective effects of the antioxidants ascorbate, cysteine, and dapsone on the phagocyte-mediated oxidative inactivation of human alpha-1-protease inhibitor in vitro.

1985 • 46 citations

Uptake of ascorbic acid by human granulocytes.

1984 • 46 citations

Effect of Functional Stimulation on Ascorbate Content in Phagocytes under Physiological and Pathological Conditions

1986 • 45 citations

Effects of dietary polyunsaturated fats and vitamin E on aging and peroxidative damage to DNA

1984 • 42 citations

Assessment of the diet of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

1983 • 42 citations

Immunologic modulation by vitamin C in the elderly

1986 • 42 citations

Investigation of the Effects of Oral Administration of Vitamin E and Beta-Carotene on the Chemiluminescence Responses and the Frequency of Sister Chromatid Exchanges in Circulating Leukocytes from Cigarette Smokers

1990 • 41 citations

Glutathione peroxidase activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in normal subjects: effects of long‐term selenium supplementation

1987 • 37 citations

Modulation of certain immunologic responses by vitamin C. III. Potentiation of in vitro and in vivo lymphocyte responses.

1982 • 36 citations

DEFICIENCY OF NEUTROPHIL PHAGOCYTOSIS IN PREMATURE INFANTS: EFFECT OF VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENTATION

1983 • 35 citations

Erythrocyte antioxidant enzymes are reduced in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

1988 • 33 citations

Dietary fat, immunological response, and cancer in rats.

1981 • 27 citations

New perspectives on the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis

1988 • 27 citations

A Biochemical Mechanism to Explain Some Characteristics of Overtraining

2015 • 26 citations

Exercise and Free Radicals: Effects of Antioxidant Vitamins

2015 • 26 citations

Vitamin A status in HIV infection

1993 • 25 citations

The carotenoid halocynthiaxanthin: A novel inhibitor of the reverse transcriptases of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and type 2

1992 • 24 citations

Antioxidants and the Aging Immune Response

1990 • 24 citations

Potential Role of Beta‐Carotene and Antioxidant Vitamins in the Prevention of Oral Cancer^a

1992 • 17 citations

Nutrient modulation of the immune response

1993 • 17 citations

HIV-1 LTR ACTIVATION MODEL

1992 • 17 citations

Antioxidant nutrients and immune functions

1991 • 13 citations

Nutritional deficiencies associated with vitamin E deficiency in sickle cell patients; The effect of vitamin supplementation

1990 • 10 citations

SOME IMMUNOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF FREE RADICAL-PRODUCTION IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

1984 • 9 citations

6 Free Radicals and Skeletal Muscle Disorders

2015 • 8 citations

Micronutrient Deficiency and Neutrophil Function in Sickle‐Cell Diseasea

1990 • 8 citations

Effects of enrichment of phosphatidylcholine liposomes with cholesterol or α-tocopherol on the response of lymphocytes to phytohemagglutinin

1982 • 7 citations

Second-line anti-rheumatic drugs and free radical scavenging

1989 • 6 citations

Vitamin E, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Other Arthritic Disorders

2008 • 5 citations

The effect of vitamin E treatment on the incidence of OKT+4 lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of children with chronic respiratory tract infections.

1987 • 5 citations