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Vitamin E discussion forum position paper on the revision of the nomenclature of vitamin E ()

This position paper opens a discussion forum of this Journal dedicated to a scientific debate on Vitamin E nomenclature. With this article we provide the scientific and medical communities with what we consider relevant information in favor of revising the nomenclature of vitamin E. To our knowledge...

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Autores principales: Azzi, Angelo, Atkinson, Jeffrey, Ozer, Nesrin Kartal, Manor, Danny, Wallert, Maria, Galli, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10681751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37463635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.06.029
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author Azzi, Angelo
Atkinson, Jeffrey
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Wallert, Maria
Galli, Francesco
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description This position paper opens a discussion forum of this Journal dedicated to a scientific debate on Vitamin E nomenclature. With this article we provide the scientific and medical communities with what we consider relevant information in favor of revising the nomenclature of vitamin E. To our knowledge, only RRR-α-tocopherol has been medically used to protect against a deficiency disease in humans, and therefore, it would be appropriate to restrict the term vitamin to this molecule. The direct demonstration of a vitamin function to other tocochromanols (including other tocopherols, tocotrienols and eventually tocomonoenols), has not yet been scientifically shown. In fact, the medical prescription of a molecule against the deficiency disease only because it has been included in the “Vitamin E family”, but not tested as vitamin E, could lead to ineffective therapy and potentially dangerous consequences for patients. The idea of this revision launched during the recent 3rd Satellite Symposium on Vitamin E of the 2022 SFRR-Europe meeting, offers a open platform of discussion for the scientists involved in vitamin E research and scientific societies interested to this subject.
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spelling pubmed-106817512023-11-27 Vitamin E discussion forum position paper on the revision of the nomenclature of vitamin E () Azzi, Angelo Atkinson, Jeffrey Ozer, Nesrin Kartal Manor, Danny Wallert, Maria Galli, Francesco Free Radic Biol Med Article This position paper opens a discussion forum of this Journal dedicated to a scientific debate on Vitamin E nomenclature. With this article we provide the scientific and medical communities with what we consider relevant information in favor of revising the nomenclature of vitamin E. To our knowledge, only RRR-α-tocopherol has been medically used to protect against a deficiency disease in humans, and therefore, it would be appropriate to restrict the term vitamin to this molecule. The direct demonstration of a vitamin function to other tocochromanols (including other tocopherols, tocotrienols and eventually tocomonoenols), has not yet been scientifically shown. In fact, the medical prescription of a molecule against the deficiency disease only because it has been included in the “Vitamin E family”, but not tested as vitamin E, could lead to ineffective therapy and potentially dangerous consequences for patients. The idea of this revision launched during the recent 3rd Satellite Symposium on Vitamin E of the 2022 SFRR-Europe meeting, offers a open platform of discussion for the scientists involved in vitamin E research and scientific societies interested to this subject. 2023-10 2023-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10681751/ /pubmed/37463635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.06.029 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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